Talk:Ice hockey at the 1948 Winter Olympics

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[edit] Exclusion of USA's games

The IOC did not invalidate USA's games from the tournament. If they had done so, Czechoslovakia, at plus-61, would have been the winner and not Canada, at plus-55. Rather, Canada, at plus-64, took the gold, while Czechoslovakia, at plus-62, took silver. As is, the article gives no explanation for why Canada took gold and not Czechoslovakia. I would like to add USA's games to the list if there are no objections. Joel225sp 07:46, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

You wrote about 69 minus 5 (or 57 minus 2) and 80 minus 18 (or 76 minus 15). But Canada took gold because of quotient (69 div 5 (or 57 div 2) is much better than 80 div 18 (76 div 15)). --85.160.36.28 13:10, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Thank you 85.160.36.28. Quotient was indeed the determining factor, according to http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/hockey/024002-119.01-e.php?=&=&hockey_id_nbr=114.

It is curious to note the number of variations in tiebreaker systems during this period of IIHF history. If this same quotient tiebreaker had been used in 1952, Czechoslovakia would have taken the bronze in place of Sweden. Then we had the strange matter in 1964, a decision which finally went in Czechoslovakia's favor. Joel225sp (talk) 21:04, 18 December 2007 (UTC)