Triple Gold Club
Players and coaches who won Olympic gold, World gold, and the Stanley Cup.
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Ice hockey players and coaches who have secured an Olympic gold, a World Championship gold, and the NHL's Stanley Cup are part of the Triple Gold Club.[1]
Quick Facts
- Player members
- 30
- National breakdown
- eleven Canadians
- nine Swedes
- seven Russians
- two Czechs
- and one Finn
- Position breakdown
- eleven defencemen and the remaining players are forwards; no goaltender has achieved the honor
- First members
- Tomas Jonsson
- Mats Näslund
- and Håkan Loob on 27 February 1994
- Latest member
- Valtteri Filppula on 29 May 2022
- Only coach
- Mike Babcock, first on 28 February 2010
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
Niklas Kronwall, Mikael Samuelsson, and Henrik Zetterberg took the least time to join the club, winning the Olympics and World Championships in 2006 and the Stanley Cup in 2008.[2] Widespread usage of the term began after the 2002 Winter Olympics, when the first Canadians joined the club.[3] The IIHF stated on 8 May 2007 that it would officially establish the club and acknowledge those who had achieved all three titles.[3] A ceremony inducting all 22 then-members occurred on 22 February 2010 during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.[3]
Viacheslav Fetisov, a Russian, needed 19 years from his initial championship to qualify for the club.[2] On 28 February 2010, Mike Babcock became the sole coach to have won all three components, after guiding Canada to Olympic gold.[4] Valtteri Filppula, playing for Finland at the 2022 IIHF World Championship on 29 May 2022, became the most recent addition.[4]
What the cited sources add
The IIHF describes the club as "a modern fraternity" because NHL players were barred from the World Championships until 1977 and from the Olympics until 1988.[1] Soviet and Czechoslovak teams used amateur players who were full-time athletes hired by state-sponsored organizations, and many Eastern bloc players could not play in the NHL before 1989.[5] Because those Olympic tournaments doubled as World Championships until 1930, the IIHF does not count these five players in the Triple Gold Club.[6] Canada claimed six of the first seven Olympic gold medals, dominating the sport's first three decades.[7]
The Soviet Union, entering Olympic competition in 1956, won seven of nine tournaments they played, surpassing Canada as the top team.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Podnieks, Andrew, "Triple Gold Goalies... not", International Ice Hockey Federation, 25 March 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Podnieks, Andrew, "Triple Gold Goalies... not", International Ice Hockey Federation, 25 March 2008; Cox, Damien, "King Henrik of Hockeytown", Toronto Star, 6 June 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Barnes, Don, "Welcome to the Triple Gold Club: Blake, Sakic, Shanahan: New members to elite club: Olympics, worlds, Stanley Cup", National Post, 25 February 2002; Scanlan, Wayne, "Triple Gold Club awaits Canadian trio", Edmonton Journal, 24 February 2002; Buffery, "Skating a fine line", Toronto Sun, 26 December 2001; "Europe's top club to play an NHL team in new tournament", USA Today, 8 May 2007; "Winner of three-team tourney to get Victoria Cup", ESPN, 8 May 2007; "Triple Gold Club expands to 22", International Ice Hockey Federation, en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Triple gold for Eric Staal", International Ice Hockey Federation, 28 February 2010; "Canada's win puts Sidney Crosby in the exclusive Triple Gold Club", 17 May 2015 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: IIHF, "PROTESTING AMATEUR RULES, CANADA LEAVES INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY", IIHF.com, 2008; Podnieks, Andrew, "Triple Gold Goalies... not", International Ice Hockey Federation, 25 March 2008 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Frank Frederickson", Legends of Hockey; "Haldor Halderson", Legends of Hockey; "Dunc Munro", Legends of Hockey; "Hooley Smith", Legends of Hockey; "Dunc Munro", Legends of Hockey (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Triple Gold Club" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Olympic ice hockey tournaments, men", International Ice Hockey Federation (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
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