By the Numbers: 2022 Winter Olympics
21 February, 2022 (10:27) | HOCKEY TALK | By: Nick
| The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games concluded over the weekend, with the closing ceremony taking place on Sunday. In the hockey portion of the proceedings, Canada took the gold in the women’s event with a 3-2 win over the rival US team last Thursday, and Finland took home the men’s title with a 2-1 win over the ROC late Saturday night. Here are some numbers from the 2022 Olympic hockey tournaments. |
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The Canada women’s hockey team dominated on the way to its fifth Olympic title
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| 328 – Total number of goals scored in Beijing. The women scored a combined 176, and the men tallied 152. |
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| 57 – Goals the Canadian women scored on the way to the gold medal, most of any team in Beijing (men or women). The next closest goal total was 30, put up by the U.S. women, while Finland was the highest-scoring men’s team finishing with 22. |
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| 18 – Points Canada’s Sarah Nurse had, leading all skaters in Beijing. Nurse set an Olympic record with a tournament-high 13 assists to go along with her five goals (four goals behind teammate Brianne Jenner, the top goalscorer). Four players tied for the most points in the men’s competition with seven. Slovakia’s Juraj Slafkovský led the men in goals, the source of all seven of his points. |
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| .966 – Save percentage (SV%) for Slovakia men’s goaltender Patrik Rybár, tops among all goalies who played more than 40% of their team’s minutes, stopping 141 of the 146 shots he faced. China’s Jiaying Zhou led all women’s goalies who fit that criteria with a .955 SV%, stopping 85 of 89 shots. |
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| +50 – Goal differential for the Canadian women was by far the largest throughout Beijing. Canada outscored its opponents by a combined total of 57-7. The U.S. women had the second-best at +19, as Finland led the men’s competition with a goal differential of +14. |
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| 1 – Olympic gold medals for the Finnish men’s team and medal of any color for Slovakia (bronze) after taking home their first in Beijing. |
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| 5 – Gold medals for Team Canada in women’s hockey. Thursday was Canada’s seventh straight championship game appearance and first victory since 2014. |
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| 0 – NHL players who participated. For the second straight Olympic games, the league decided not to send players—this time due to COVID-19. There is hope that the NHL will participate in 2026. |
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