Triple Gold Club

The Triple Gold Club ( TGC for short , German  Dreifach-Gold-Klub ) is a hall of fame founded by the International Ice Hockey Federation IIHF , to which ice hockey players and coaches belong who, according to the IIHF, have won the "three most important titles of the sport" -  World Championship , Olympic Games and Stanley Cup of the National Hockey League  - in any order. Admission to the club is so exclusive because an Olympic ice hockey tournament only takes place every four years, and the world championship for players and coaches active in North America is held parallel to the play-off games for the Stanley Cup win. In addition, until the 1990s it was unusual for Europeans to be  active in the NHL - also due to the Iron Curtain - and for players active in the NHL not to participate in World Championships and Olympic Games until 1977 due to the professional practice of the sport.

The first members of the initially unofficial club were the three Swedes Tomas Jonsson , Mats Näslund and Håkan Loob , who were the first players ever to win the three titles by participating in their home country's Olympic victory at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer . It was not until the first Canadians were accepted after the 2002 Olympic Winter Games that the term Triple Gold Club was coined. On May 8, 2007, the IIHF recognized the achievements of the then 18 players and announced that they would be officially honored in a ceremony during the 2008 Men's World Cup in Canada . This plan, however, was rejected and the first held the Victoria Cup rescheduled in September of 2008.

As the first and so far only coach ever, the Canadian Mike Babcock was given the honor of being accepted into the club. He had led the Canadian national team to win the gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver on February 28, 2010 . He had previously looked after his home country at the 2004 World Cup when the team also won gold. He won the Stanley Cup in 2008 with the Detroit Red Wings .

The requirements for admission to the Triple Gold Club -  Olympic victory , Stanley Cup victory and World Cup victory (from top left clockwise)

The club currently has a total of 29 players and a coach from just four nations - namely Canada , Russia , Sweden and the Czech Republic  . The players are divided into six defenders and 22 forwards . A goalkeeper has not yet been able to meet the requirements. The largest contingent is Canada with eleven members. The most successful player of the 28 is Russian defender Vyacheslav Fetissov , who won seven world championships, two Olympic ice hockey tournaments and two Stanley Cups in the course of his career. 14 of the 29 players were able to achieve admission by winning the annual Stanley Cup. Ten players gained access by winning the Olympic gold medal, while only five players gained access to the Triple Gold Club by winning the world championship.

Those players who also won the World Cup of Hockey or the previous event, the Canada Cup , have a special position . However, winning these titles is in no way relevant to inclusion and does not replace any of the other three titles. So far this has only been achieved by two Russian and ten Canadian players, as well as one Canadian coach: Vyacheslav Fetissow and Igor Larionow (both Canada Cup 1981 ); Brendan Shanahan ( Canada Cup 1991 ); Rob Blake , Joe Sakic , Scott Niedermayer and Chris Pronger (all World Cup of Hockey 2004 ); Jonathan Toews , Patrice Bergeron , Sidney Crosby , Corey Perry and Mike Babcock (all World Cup of Hockey 2016 ). Jay Bouwmeester was even a member of the two winning teams in 2004 and 2016.

The Swedes Niklas Kronwall , Henrik Zetterberg and Mikael Samuelsson needed the shortest time between winning one of the titles and being accepted into the club . They managed to win both the Olympic ice hockey tournament and the world championship in 2006. The Stanley Cup triumph followed in 2008. In contrast, it took Vyacheslav Fetissov a total of 19 years, which lay between the first triumph and the admission. He, his compatriot Igor Larionow and the Swede Peter Forsberg are also the only players who have won each of the three titles more than once. Sidney Crosby is the only player in the Triple Gold Club to have won all three titles as captain of the respective team.

Member list

player

position	player	country	Recording date	World championships	Olympic victories	Stanley Cups
1	Tomas Jonsson		Feb. 27, 1994	1991	1994	New York Islanders 1982 , 1983
2	Mats Näslund		Feb. 27, 1994	1991	1994	Canadiens de Montréal 1986
3	Håkan Loob		Feb. 27, 1994	1987 , 1991	1994	Calgary Flames 1989
4th	Valery Kamensky	/	June 10, 1996	1986 , 1989 , 1990	1988	Colorado Avalanche 1996
5	Alexei Gussarov	/	June 10, 1996	1986 , 1989 , 1990	1988	Colorado Avalanche 1996
6th	Peter Forsberg		June 10, 1996	1992 , 1998	1994 , 2006	Colorado Avalanche 1996 , 2001
7th	Vyacheslav Fetisov	/	0June 7, 1997	1978 , 1981 , 1982 , 1983 , 1986 , 1989 , 1990	1984 , 1988	Detroit Red Wings 1997 , 1998
8th	Igor Larionov	/	0June 7, 1997	1982 , 1983 , 1986 , 1989	1984 , 1988	Detroit Red Wings 1997 , 1998 , 2002
9	Alexander Mogilny	/	June 10, 2000	1989	1988	New Jersey Devils 2000
10	Vladimir Malakhov	/	June 10, 2000	1990	1992	New Jersey Devils 2000
11	Rob Blake		Feb. 24, 2002	1994 , 1997	2002	Colorado Avalanche 2001
12	Joe Sakic		Feb. 24, 2002	1994	2002	Colorado Avalanche 1996 , 2001
13	Brendan Shanahan		Feb. 24, 2002	1994	2002	Detroit Red Wings 1997 , 1998 , 2002
14th	Scott Niedermayer		0May 9, 2004	2004	2002 , 2010	New Jersey Devils 1995 , 2000 , 2003 Anaheim Ducks 2007
15th	Jaromír Jágr		May 15, 2005	2005 , 2010	1998	Pittsburgh Penguins 1991 , 1992
16	Jiří Šlégr		May 15, 2005	2005	1998	Detroit Red Wings 2002
17th	Nicklas Lidström		Feb 26, 2006	1991	2006	Detroit Red Wings 1997 , 1998 , 2002 , 2008
18th	Fredrik Modin		Feb 26, 2006	1998	2006	Tampa Bay Lightning 2004
19th	Chris Pronger		0June 6, 2007	1997	2002 , 2010	Anaheim Ducks 2007
20th	Niklas Kronwall		0June 4, 2008	2006	2006	Detroit Red Wings 2008
21st	Henrik Zetterberg		0June 4, 2008	2006	2006	Detroit Red Wings 2008
22nd	Mikael Samuelsson		0June 4, 2008	2006	2006	Detroit Red Wings 2008
23	Eric Staal		Feb 28, 2010	2007	2010	Carolina Hurricanes 2006
24	Jonathan Toews		0June 9, 2010	2007	2010 , 2014	Chicago Blackhawks 2010 , 2013 , 2015
25th	Patrice Bergeron		June 15, 2011	2004	2010 , 2014	Boston Bruins 2011
26th	Sidney Crosby		17th May 2015	2015	2010 , 2014	Pittsburgh Penguins 2009 , 2016 , 2017
27	Corey Perry		May 22, 2016	2016	2010 , 2014	Anaheim Ducks 2007
28	Pavel Datsyuk		Feb 25, 2018	2012	2018	Detroit Red Wings 2002 , 2008
29	Jay Bouwmeester		June 12, 2019	2003 , 2004	2014	St. Louis Blues 2019

Trainer

position	Trainer	country	Recording date	World championships	Olympic victories	Stanley Cups
1	Mike Babcock		Feb 28, 2010	2004	2010 , 2014	Detroit Red Wings 2008

Legend to the table:

• Position: Shows the order of the players. This is determined by the date of admission to the club. If the date is the same, the date of the first title win is compared. In the case of three identical dates, the player who was younger when he reached the third title is listed first.
• Country: Shows the flag of the country of which the player was a national.
• Admission date : states the date on which the player was admitted to the club.
• World championships: states the year / s of the world championship / s won.
• Olympic victories : states the year / s of the Olympic victory / s.
• Stanley Cups: states the year (s) of the Stanley Cup victory (s).
• The highlighted year indicates the decisive title win for inclusion.

  Player is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Player is still active
  

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Triple Gold Goalies ... not. In: webarchive.iihf.com. Retrieved November 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Europe's top club to play an NHL team in new tournament. iht.com, accessed February 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ PR & Media Activities. iihf.com, accessed January 5, 2010 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Triple Gold Club expands to 22. In: webarchive.iihf.com. June 5, 2008, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Babcock feted in Saskatoon. In: webarchive.iihf.com. July 20, 2010, accessed November 5, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Lucas Aykroyd: Crosby in Triple Gold Club. iihf.com, May 18, 2015, accessed May 23, 2016 . 

Web links

• Official list of members of the Triple Gold Club on the IIHF website

This version was added to the selection of informative lists and portals on March 3, 2009 .