With gold medal winners in each of the last three Olympic Games ( Paul Kariya of Canada in 2002, Sammy Pahlsson of Sweden in 2006 and Niedermayer, Getzlaf, and Perry here), the Ducks join the Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks as the only NHL teams to have gold medalists in the last three such tournaments (2002-2010).
The Ducks, Dallas Stars and Flyers are the only three NHL teams to have multiple medalists in each of the four Olympic tournaments involving NHL players (1998-2002-2006-2010).
The Ducks also became just the second NHL team to have players with multiple medals of each color in an Olympic tournament (2002 Red Wings, two gold, two silver, three bronze).
In all, Ducks players have won 15 medals in the four Olympic Games involving NHL players, second only to the Red Wings' 16. The New York Rangers players have also won 15.
The complete Ducks list:
Gold -- 5 Kariya with Canada in 2002, Pahlsson with Sweden in 2006, and Getzlaf, Niedermayer and Perry with Canada in 2010.
Silver -- 5 Mikhail Shtalenkov and Dmitri Mironov with Russia in 1998, Selanne with Finland in 2006, Ryan and Whitney with the U.S. in 2010.
Bronze -- 5 Selanne with Finland in 1998 and 2010; Oleg Tverdovsky and Ilya Bryzgalov with Russia in 2002; Koivu with Finland in 2010.
Selanne became the all-time Olympic men's hockey scorer with 20 goals and 37 points in 31 career games when he earned an assist Feb. 19 vs. Germany. He surpassed Valeri Kharlamov (Russia), Vlastimil Bubnik (former Czechoslovakia) and Harry Watson (Canada) for the career scoring lead.
Koivu and teammates Jere Lehtinen and Ville Peltonen each earned their fourth career Olympic medals, tying a men's hockey record. Vladislav Tretiak of the former Soviet Union and Jiri Holik of the former Czechoslovakia also won four medals. Koivu, Lehtinen and Peltonen each have one silver and three bronze medals.
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