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Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics men's tournament: 12 teams in Gangneung, 14–25 February 2018, without NHL players. Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR) beat Germany 4–3 in overtime for gold; Canada took bronze.
Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
Women's ice hockey tournament, PyeongChang 2018 Olympics; eight teams; United States won gold, beating Canada 3-2 in a six-round shootout, ending Canada's 24-game Olympic win streak; Finland took bronze.
Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: 12-team men's and 10-team women's tournaments, 3–20 February 2022, without NHL players after the league's COVID-19 withdrawal. Finland beat ROC 2-1 for its first men's gold; Slovakia took bronze.
Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
Men's ice hockey at Beijing 2022 (Olympic men's tournament): 12-team IIHF competition, 9-20 February 2022, held without NHL players after their December 2021 withdrawal; Finland won gold, ROC silver, Slovakia bronze.
Ice hockey at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
Women's ice hockey at Beijing 2022 (3–17 February), first ten-team Olympic women's tournament; Canada beat the United States 3-2 for its fifth gold, Finland took bronze, Poulin scored in a fourth straight final.
Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's team rosters
Men's ice hockey rosters for Milano Cortina 2026: 12 nations, 25-man squads (14 F, 8 D, 3 G), first NHL players since 2014; all rosters announced 20 January 2026; USA won gold over Canada.
Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
Men's ice hockey at Milano Cortina 2026: 12-team Olympic tournament, Feb 11-22, 2026, in Milan with NHL players back since 2014. United States won gold, Finland bronze, Canada silver.
Ice hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Women's tournament
Women's ice hockey at Milano Cortina 2026: ten-team Olympic tournament, 5–19 February 2026 in Milan. USA beat Canada in overtime for gold, Switzerland took bronze; PWHL players dominated rosters.
Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
Ice hockey at the Olympic Games: IIHF-governed men's (since 1920/1924) and women's (since 1998) Winter Olympic tournaments; Canada leads with 25 medals and 14 golds; NHL players return for Milano Cortina 2026 after missing 2018 and 2022.
Ice hockey rink
Ice hockey rink: the marked, board-enclosed ice surface for hockey. IIHF standard 60 m × 26–30 m (corner radius 7.0–8.5 m); NHL 200 × 85 ft; boards 1.07 m; first indoor game Montreal 1875.
Ice Hockey World Championships
Ice Hockey World Championships: the IIHF's annual world title tournaments for national men's teams, first held as the 1920 Antwerp Olympic tournament and as a stand-alone event in 1930, with 16 top-division teams and promotion and relegation.
Icing (ice hockey)
Icing (ice hockey): rule stopping a team at equal or greater strength from shooting the puck from its own half past the opponent's goal line; NHL Rule 81, IIHF Rule 81, hybrid icing since 2013-14, face-off in the offending end with no line change.
Idaho Steelheads
Idaho Steelheads, ECHL professional hockey team in Boise, Idaho, playing at Idaho Central Arena in the Western Conference Mountain Division. Dallas Stars affiliate since 2005-06; Kelly Cup champions in 2004 and 2007, with record 58-win 2022-23 season.
Iefke van Belkum
Iefke van Belkum, born 1986 in Leiden, is a Dutch water polo player who won Olympic gold with the Netherlands at Beijing 2008, played for Hawaii, Greek and Russian clubs, and later coached and directed ZVL-1886.
Ignacio Ortiz
Ignacio Horacio "Nano" Ortiz, Argentine field hockey midfielder (born 1987, Olivos), Banco Provincia club; won 2016 Rio Olympic gold with Los Leones, scoring in the 4-2 final win over Belgium, and played at Tokyo 2020.
Igor Boldin
Igor Boldin (Игорь Петрович Болдин), born 1964, Russian ice hockey forward; 1992 Olympic gold with the Unified Team; longtime Spartak Moskva player, later Spartak coach; drafted by St. Louis Blues 1992.
Igor Kravchuk
Igor Kravchuk (Игорь Александрович Кравчук), Russian defenseman born 1966 in Ufa; two-time Olympic ice hockey champion (1988 USSR, 1992 Unified Team), 1998 silver, 2002 bronze, and 699-game NHL veteran.
Igor Larionov (Игорь Николаевич Ларионов)
Igor Larionov (Игорь Николаевич Ларионов), "The Professor", Russian center born 1960 in Voskresensk; KLM line star, two Olympic golds, three Stanley Cups with Detroit's Russian Five, Hall of Famer, later KHL coach.
Igor Romishevsky
Igor Romishevsky (Igor Anatolyevich Romishevsky, Игорь Ромишевский, 1940–2013) was a Soviet ice hockey defenseman who won back-to-back Olympic gold in 1968 and 1972 and spent his career with CSKA Moskva.
Igor Stelnov
Igor Stelnov (Игорь Стельнов, 1963–2009), Soviet ice hockey defender with CSKA Moskva; two Olympic golds (Sarajevo 1984, Calgary 1988), world champion 1986, Canada Cup 1987, Soviet champion 1982–1989.
IIHF World Junior Championship
IIHF World Junior Championship, annual under-20 men's ice hockey world championship held each Christmas; began as invitational event 1974, official IIHF event since 1977; 2026 50th edition in Minnesota won by Sweden.
IIHF World Ranking
IIHF World Ranking: points-based IIHF ranking of national ice hockey teams, introduced 2003-2004. Awards 1600 points for World Championship or Olympic gold over a four-year cycle with 25% annual point decay, used for seeding and Olympic qualification.
Iiro Pakarinen
Iiro Pakarinen, Finnish ice hockey forward (born 1991), HIFK Helsinki Liiga winger; 134 NHL games with Edmonton Oilers, Florida Panthers 2011 draft pick (184th), Olympic gold 2022 and two World Championship silvers with Finland.
Illia Korzun
Illia Korzun (Ілля Рыгоравіч Корзун), Belarusian ice hockey player born 2004, Sdushor Minsk; won gold in boys' 3-on-3 mixed-NOC hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics with Team Green, beating Team Red 10-4 in the final.
Ilse van der Meijden
Ilse van der Meijden, Dutch water polo goalkeeper born 1988 in Baarn, won Olympic gold with the Netherlands at Beijing 2008, saving twice in the final 10 seconds of the 9-8 final against the USA; later played at USC and the 2010 European bronze.
Ilya Byakin
Ilya Byakin (Илья Владимирович Бякин), Russian defenseman born 1963 in Sverdlovsk; 1988 Olympic gold and three World titles with USSR; 57 NHL games with Edmonton and San Jose; retired 2004, later a coach.
Ilya Kablukov
Ilya Kablukov (Илья Андреевич Каблуков, born 1988, Moscow) is a Russian ice hockey center, 2018 Olympic champion with Olympic Athletes from Russia and three-time Gagarin Cup winner (SKA 2015, 2017; Avangard 2021), a defensive forward with over 1,000 KHL games.
Ilya Kovalchuk (Илья Валерьевич Ковальчук)
Ilya Kovalchuk (Илья Валерьевич Ковальчук), Russian hockey forward born 1983; first Russian taken first overall in the NHL draft (2001, Atlanta); his 17-year Devils contract was voided for cap circumvention; three Gagarin Cups; 2018 Olympic gold; now Shanghai Dragons president.
Ilya Kvochko
Ilya Kvochko (Илья Александрович Квочко; born 2004) is a Russian professional ice hockey forward for Severstal Cherepovets of the Kontinental Hockey League who won the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics.
Ilya Rogovsky
Ilya Rogovsky (Илья Евгеньевич Роговский, also Ilia Rogovskiy), Russian ice hockey forward born 2004 in Yaroslavl; won boys' ice hockey gold at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics and plays for Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk in the VHL.