MacHall's Bleacher Creature Trivia, Part Four: International and Olympic Hockey

Welcome to Part Four of the Quiz! Every week this summer, find new hockey trivia - and answers - here, up to three times a week. Test your self and your friends, and take credit as the King or Queen of hockey knowledge. Covering various topics (and miscellany) chapter to chapter, it’s a fun and easy way to get into the game over the hot summer months. Take a journey with your fellow Bleacher Creatures and discover the stories which make up over a hundred years of ice time.

Think you can handle it? Want to prove your hockey-smarts? Grab a pen and paper, or simply type your solutions on your own Bleacher Report profile and play along. Answers for today’s questions will be listed in the subsequent edition, and links to other chapters are at the bottom of the page.

Looking beyond the borders of the NHL, we head abroad - so to speak - to International and Olympic play. Most questions involve NHL heroes, but throw them outside their franchise teams and give them a chance at national glory. Again, this is a multi-faceted topic, so expect more of this type in the future. For now, cheer your teams and compatriots to victory, and show the world how much you know about hockey by having a go at these:

1. Which hockey player was the first to win an Olympic Gold medal AND the Stanley Cup in the same year?

2. What refereeing controversy arose at the 2002 Winter Olympics in the Women’s ice hockey Final between the United States and Canada?

3.  In 1992, no single country won gold in ice hockey at the Winter Olympics in Albertville. Why?

4. Which 1983 NHL draft pick was on the Gold Medal ice hockey team at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics?

5. The longest game in international ice hockey history took place in Philadelphia. Two national teams would remain drawn at 2-all until the deadlock was broken at 19:47 of the second overtime period. Which two country’s squads were involved, in which tournament were they playing, and who scored the winning goal?

6.  The 1980 Winter Olympics at lake Placid are considered a turning point in American Hockey. Team USA, filled with amateur and colligate players, went on to beat the best in the world and win the Gold Medal. Which team did they beat in the Final to clinch gold, and in what place did that losing team finish?

7. What was hockey analyst Pierre McGuire referring to when he coined the phrase "It was a double-Dion" at the 2005 World Junior Championship?

8.  Which was the first year the medalling countries in Olympic ice hockey did not include at least one of the “big three” national teams, Canada, USSR/Russia, or the United States?

9. In the early days of Olympic Ice Hockey, the gold medal podium was dominated by teams from the Dominion of Canada. Canadians started off winning six of the first seven Olympic tournaments - they would not win gold again until the 2002 double-event. Before the fifty year gap starting in 1956, which was the only team to break Canada’s formerly potential seven-time winning streak?

10. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Games, Canada’s Men’s AND Women’s ice hockey teams won Gold. A good luck charm of sorts was buried at centre ice and has been credited with helping along the double-victory. What famous token was buried, and by whom?

Bonus Question: Why was the aforementioned good luck charm buried at centre ice in the first place?

Photo Question: Two of today’s biggest NHL stars, Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin, met on international ice as comparative cubs at the 2005 World Juniors. Due to the NHL lockout, a number of skilled players who would have otherwise been playing pro were competing for various teams creating a veritable constellation of future dazzlers. It created a fun winter tournament with some of the most lop-sided scores in event history and featured a final between Canada and Russia. Can you name the tournament All-Stars (all six positions, any country), name the MVP, and remember who scored more goals, Crosby or Ovechkin?

Technical Question: On their way to a resonating Olympic gold medal win in 2002, Team Canada faced what looked to be dire straights late in the competition. They came across their only defeat, a 5-2 loss in Group C’s final rounds when they were unable to solve a particular system of play. What is the name for the system mentioned, and how does it work?

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