United States National Ice Hockey Team
Association | USA hockey |
IIHF member | since 1920 |
World ranking | Rank 6 |
Trainer | Jeff Blashill |
Assistant coach | Seth Appert , Dan Bylsma , Don Granato |
Most games | Mark Johnson (151) |
Most of the points | Henry Boucha (173) |
Homepage | usahockey.com |
statistics | |
First international match United States 29: 0 Switzerland Antwerp , Belgium ; April 24 , 1920 |
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Biggest win United States 31: 1 Italy St. Moritz , Switzerland ; February 1, 1948 |
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Biggest defeat Sweden 17-2 United States Stockholm , Sweden ; March 12 , 1963 |
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Olympic games | |
Participation | Since 1920 |
Best result: | Olympic champion (1960) and (1980) |
World Championship | |
Participation | since 1930 |
best result | World Champion (1933, 1960) |
World cup | |
Participation | 1996, 2004 |
best result | Gold medal (1996) |
(As of February 10, 2020) |
The ice hockey team of the United States is from USA Hockey organized. After the 2019 World Cup , the team is ranked 6th in the IIHF world rankings .
There are over 485,000 active players in the United States. The national team's head coach has been Jeff Blashill since 2017 . With two Olympic victories each (1960 and 1980) and world championships (1933 and 1960) as well as nine other Olympic and twelve other world championship medals, the Americans are among the most successful national teams ever.
Current squad
The squad for the 2019 Men's Ice Hockey World Championship , which took place from May 10th to 26th, 2019 in Bratislava and Košice in Slovakia :
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function | Nat. | Surname | Date of birth |
Head coach | Jeff Blashill | Dec 10, 1973 | |
Assistant coach | Dan Bylsma | 19 Sep 1970 | |
Assistant coach | John Hynes | Feb 10, 1975 |
successes
Olympic games
- Gold medal : 1960 , 1980
- Silver medal: 1920 , 1924 , 1932 , 1952 , 1956 , 1972 , 2002 , 2010
- Bronze medal: 1936
Canada Cup
World Cup of Hockey
World Championship
- World champion : 1933 , 1960
- Silver medal: 1931 , 1934 , 1939 , 1950
- Bronze medal: 1936 , 1949 , 1962 , 1996 , 2004 , 2013 , 2015 , 2018
Placements
Olympic games
- 1920 : silver
- 1924 : silver
- 1928 : did not take part
- 1932 : silver
- 1936 : bronze
- 1948 : disqualified
- 1952 : silver
- 1956 : silver
- 1960 : gold
- 1964 : 5th place
- 1968 : 6th place
- 1972 : silver
- 1976 : 5th place
- 1980 : gold
- 1984 : 7th place
- 1988 : 7th place
- 1992 : 4th place
- 1994 : 8th place
- 1998 : 6th place
- 2002 : silver
- 2006 : 8th place
- 2010 : silver
- 2014 : 4th place
- 2018 : 7th place
World championships
- 1920 : silver
- 1924 : silver
- 1928 : did not take part
- 1930 : did not participate
- 1931 : silver
- 1932 : silver
- 1933 : gold
- 1934 : silver
- 1935 : did not take part
- 1936 : bronze
- 1937 : did not take part
- 1938 : 7th place
- 1939 : silver
- 1947 : 5th place
- 1948 : bronze
- 1949 : bronze
- 1950 : silver
- 1951 : 6th place
- 1952 : silver
- 1953 : did not take part
- 1954 : did not take part
- 1955 : 4th place
- 1956 : silver
- 1957 : did not take part
- 1958 : 5th place
- 1959 : 4th place
- 1960 : gold
- 1961 : 6th place
- 1962 : bronze
- 1963 : 8th place
- 1964 : 5th place
- 1965 : 6th place
- 1966 : 6th place
- 1967 : 5th place
- 1968 : 6th place
- 1969 : 6th place
- 1970 : 7th place (1st B-WM)
- 1971 : 6th place
- 1972 : 8th place (2nd B-WM)
- 1973 : 8th place (2nd B-WM)
- 1974 : 7th place (1st B-WM)
- 1975 : 6th place
- 1976 : 4th place
- 1977 : 6th place
- 1978 : 6th place
- 1979 : 7th place
- 1981 : 5th place
- 1982 : 8th place
- 1983 : 9th place (1st B-WM)
- 1985 : 4th place
- 1986 : 6th place
- 1987 : 7th place
- 1989 : 6th place
- 1990 : 5th place
- 1991 : 4th place
- 1992 : 7th place
- 1993 : 6th place
- 1994 : 4th place
- 1995 : 6th place
- 1996 : bronze
- 1997 : 6th place
- 1998 : 12th place
- 1999 : 5th place
- 2000 : 5th place
- 2001 : 4th place
- 2002 : 7th place
- 2003 : 13th place
- 2004 : bronze
- 2005 : 6th place
- 2006 : 7th place
- 2007 : 5th place
- 2008 : 6th place
- 2009 : 4th place
- 2010 : 13th place
- 2011 : 8th place
- 2012 : 7th place
- 2013 : bronze
- 2014 : 6th place
- 2015 : bronze
- 2016 : 4th place
- 2017 : 5th place
- 2018 : bronze
- 2019 : 7th place
italic : The tournament was held as part of the Olympic Games.
Canada Cup / World Cup of Hockey
Canada Cup | World Cup of Hockey |
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See also
Web links
Commons : United States National Ice Hockey Team - Collection of images, videos, and audio files
- USA hockey
- Overview on www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com, accessed on July 23, 2018.