Para ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Paralympics

The Para ice hockey competition of the 2018 Winter Paralympics was held at Gangneung Hockey Centre, South Korea, from 10 to 18 March 2018.^[1] A total of eight teams competed in the mixed team tournament. Lena Schrøder from Norway has become the second female Para ice hockey player at the Paralympic Games after Britt Mjaasund Øyen.^[2][3]

2018 Winter Paralympics

Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Venue(s)	Gangneung Hockey Centre
Dates	10–18 March 2018
Teams	8
Final positions
Champions	United States (4th title)
Runner-up	Canada
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	Italy
Tournament statistics
Games played	20
Goals scored	136 (6.8 per game)
Attendance	110,417 (5,521 per game)
Scoring leader(s)	Declan Farmer (17 points)
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Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mixed	United States (USA)	Canada (CAN)	South Korea (KOR)
	Tyler Carron[4] Steve Cash Ralph DeQuebec Travis Dodson Declan Farmer Noah Grove Billy Hanning Jr. Nikko Landeros Jen Lee Luke McDermott Kevin McKee Josh Misiewicz Adam Page Josh Pauls Rico Roman Brody Roybal Jack Wallace	Rob Armstrong Steve Arsenault Bradley Bowden Billy Bridges Dominic Cozzolino Ben Delaney Adam Dixon James Dunn James Gemmell Tyrone Henry Liam Hickey Dominic Larocque Tyler McGregor Bryan Sholomicki Corbyn Smith Corbin Watson Greg Westlake	Cho Byeong-seok Cho Young-jae Choi Kwang-hyouk Choi Si-woo Han Min-su Jang Dong-shin Jang Jong-ho Jung Seung-hwan Kim Dea-jung Kim Young-sung Lee Hae-man Lee Jae-woong Lee Ji-hoon Lee Jong-kyung Lee Ju-seung Lee Yong-min Yu Man-gyun

Qualification

Qualifying event	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host nation	6 July 2011	Durban	1	South Korea
2017 World Championships[5]	12–20 April 2017	Gangneung	4	Canada  United States  Norway  Italy
Paralympic Qualification Tournament[6]	9–14 October 2017	Östersund	3	Czech Republic  Japan  Sweden

Match officials

5 referees and 8 linesmen were selected for the tournament.^[7]

Referees

• Kristijan Nikolic
• Kevin Webinger
• Sotaro Yamaguchi
• Owe Lüthcke
• Johnathan Morrison

Linesmen

• David Nothegger
• Matt Clark
• Matthew Fergenbaum
• Jan Vaněk
• Leon Wesley
• Chae Young-jin
• Han Youl
• Andreas Lundén

Preliminary round

All times are local (UTC+9).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Canada	3	3	0	0	0	35	0	+35	9	Semifinals
2	Italy	3	1	1	0	1	5	12	−7	5
3	Norway	3	1	0	1	1	5	12	−7	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Sweden	3	0	0	0	3	1	22	−21	0

Source: PyeongChang 2018

10 March 2018 12:00

Norway

2–3 GWS (0–0, 1–1, 1–1) (OT 0–0) (SO: 0–1)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,543

Game reference
	Kjell Christian Hamar	Goalies	Gabriele Araudo	Referee: Kevin Webinger Linesmen: Chae Young-jin David Nothegger
	0–1 16:02 – Kalegaris (Leperdi) Værnes (Nordstoga, Hamre) (PP) – 26:32 1–1 1–2 33:19 – Rosa (Larch) Bakke (Nordstoga, Pedersen) – 42:25 2–2
	Solberg Vatne Pedersen	Shootout	Larch Rosa
	6 min	Penalties	4 min
	12	Shots	18

10 March 2018 19:00

Canada

17–0 (7–0, 5–0, 5–0)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,445

Game reference
	Corbin Watson Dominic Larocque	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson Andreas Nejman	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Han Youl Jan Vaněk
	McGregor (Hickey, Dixon) (PP) – 01:52 1–0 Sholomicki (Armstrong, Dunn) – 02:22 2–0 McGregor (Westlake, Hickey) – 05:22 3–0 Sholomicki (Dunn, Dixon) – 05:39 4–0 McGregor (Westlake, Dixon) – 09:20 5–0 Dixon (Delaney, Smith) – 11:13 6–0 Cozzolino (Delaney, Dixon) – 11:31 7–0 Delaney (Armstrong, Cozzolino) (PP) – 17:43 8–0 Smith (Sholomicki, Dunn) – 18:06 9–0 Hickey (Armstrong, Henry) – 24:37 10–0 Hickey (Westlake, McGregor) – 25:37 11–0 Armstrong (Sholomicki) – 26:38 12–0 Bridges – 31:55 13–0 Armstrong (Bridges, Cozzolino) – 33:05 14–0 Sholomicki (Smith, Dunn) – 34:53 15–0 McGregor (Dixon) – 36:48 16–0 Westlake (McGregor, Hickey) – 44:42 17–0
	2 min	Penalties	6 min
	45	Shots	2

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11 March 2018 19:00

Canada

10–0 (3–0, 4–0, 3–0)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 4,795

Game reference
	Corbin Watson	Goalies	Santino Stillitano	Referee: Sotaro Yamaguchi Linesmen: David Nothegger Leon Wesley
	McGregor (Dixon, Westlake) (PP) – 03:59 1–0 Dixon (Sholomicki) – 09:21 2–0 Delaney (Cozzolino, Armstrong) – 11:36 3–0 Hickey (Bridges, Delaney) – 17:03 4–0 Hickey – 19:11 5–0 Delaney (Sholomicki) (SH) – 20:20 6–0 Delaney (Sholomicki) (SH) – 25:34 7–0 Cozzolino (Bridges) – 33:06 8–0 Dunn (SH) – 36:27 9–0 Dunn – 41:23 10–0
	24 min	Penalties	6 min
	16	Shots	4

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12 March 2018 15:30

Canada

8–0 (2–0, 3–0, 3–0)

Norway

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,886

Game reference
	Dominic Larocque	Goalies	Kjell Christian Hamar	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Andreas Lundén
	Bridges (Dixon, Arsenault) – 02:33 1–0 Armstrong (Cozzolino, Bowden) – 08:47 2–0 Hickey (PP) – 26:50 3–0 Bowden (Armstrong) – 27:54 4–0 Armstrong (Dunn) – 28:49 5–0 Bridges (Hickey, Arsenault) – 33:59 6–0 Westlake (McGregor) (PP) – 37:21 7–0 McGregor (Cozzolino) (SH) – 41:51 8–0
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	27	Shots	5

12 March 2018 19:00

Italy

2–0 (1–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 4,322

Game reference
	Gabriele Araudo	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson	Referee: Sotaro Yamaguchi Linesmen: Jan Vaněk Leon Wesley
	Kalegaris (Planker, Rosa) (PP) – 13:16 1–0 Rosa – 39:36 2–0
	10 min	Penalties	8 min
	20	Shots	2

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13 March 2018 15:30

Norway

3–1 (1–0, 1–0, 1–1)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,059

Game reference
	Kissinger Deng	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson	Referee: Sotaro Yamaguchi Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Jan Vaněk
	Nordstoga (Bøgle) – 13:07 1–0 Bøgle (Hamre, Solberg) (PP) – 25:00 2–0 2–1 31:35 – Gyllsten (Kasperi, P. Nilsson) Bøgle (Værnes) (ENG) – 43:45 3–1
	4 min	Penalties	16 min
	19	Shots	10

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	3	3	0	0	0	28	0	+28	9	Semifinals
2	South Korea (H)	3	1	1	0	1	7	11	−4	5
3	Czech Republic	3	1	0	1	1	5	13	−8	4	5–8th place semifinals
4	Japan	3	0	0	0	3	1	17	−16	0

Source: PyeongChang 2018
(H) Host

10 March 2018 15:30

South Korea

4–1 (0–0, 1–0, 3–1)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,022

Game reference
	Yu Man-gyun	Goalies	Shinobu Fukushima	Referee: Owe Lüthcke Linesmen: Matt Clark Leon Wesley
	Jang D. (Kim Y., Jang J.) (PP) – 21:08 1–0 Jung – 30:51 2–0 Cho Y. (Cho B., Jung) – 35:56 3–0 Lee H. (Jang D., Lee Ji.) (PP) – 40:31 4–0 4–1 42:53 – Takahashi (Uehara, Kumagai) (PP)
	12 min	Penalties	14 min
	24	Shots	7

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11 March 2018 12:00

United States

10–0 (3–0, 6–0, 1–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,435

Game reference
	Jen Lee	Goalies	Shinobu Fukushima Kazuya Mochizuki	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Matt Clark Han Youl
	McKee (Landeros) – 01:01 1–0 Roybal (Misiewicz) – 04:34 2–0 Grove (Farmer, DeQuebec) – 12:26 3–0 Landeros (Roybal, Farmer) (PP) – 20:25 4–0 Farmer – 20:55 5–0 McDermott (Page, DeQuebec) – 23:20 6–0 Roman (Page, Pauls) – 23:54 7–0 Roybal (Misiewicz) – 24:02 8–0 Roybal (McKee, Misiewicz) – 24:49 9–0 Wallace (Farmer, Pauls) – 38:25 10–0
	2 min	Penalties	4 min
	24	Shots	2

11 March 2018 15:30

South Korea

3–2 OT (0–0, 1–0, 1–2) (OT: 1–0)

Czech Republic

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,187

Game reference
	Yu Man-gyun	Goalies	Michal Vápenka	Referee: Jonathan Morrison Linesmen: Matthew Fergenbaum Andreas Lundén
	Lee Ju. (Jang J., Jung) – 18:28 1–0 1–1 38:55 – Geier (Kubeš) (SH) Jung (Lee Jo.) – 42:53 2–1 2–2 44:21 – Geier (Kubeš, Doležal) (EA) Jung (Jang D., Cho Y.) – 45:13 3–2
	8 min	Penalties	8 min
	22	Shots	10

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12 March 2018 12:00

United States

10–0 (3–0, 7–0, 0–0)

Czech Republic

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,709

Game reference
	Steve Cash	Goalies	Martin Kuděla	Referee: Owe Lüthcke Linesmen: Matthew Fergenbaum David Nothegger
	Roybal (Landeros) – 01:04 1–0 Farmer (Wallace, Page) – 08:17 2–0 Farmer (McKee, Pauls) (PP) – 12:05 3–0 Farmer (Page, Wallace) (PP) – 18:39 4–0 Wallace (Farmer, Page) – 21:45 5–0 Roybal (Misiewicz, McKee) – 24:46 6–0 Dodson (Hanning) – 27:21 7–0 Farmer (Landeros, Carron) (PP) – 28:22 8–0 Roybal (Misiewicz) – 28:47 9–0 Dodson (Landeros) – 29:42 10–0
	4 min	Penalties	8 min
	31	Shots	13

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13 March 2018 12:00

United States

8–0 (6–0, 0–0, 2–0)

South Korea

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,588

Game reference
	Steve Cash	Goalies	Yu Man-gyun Lee Jae-woong	Referee: Kevin Webinger Linesmen: Matt Clark Matthew Fergenbaum
	Roybal (Farmer, Landeros) (PP) – 04:51 1–0 Farmer (Wallace, DeQuebec) – 06:40 2–0 Misiewicz (Pauls, Landeros) (PP) – 08:09 3–0 Misiewicz (McKee, Roybal) – 09:57 4–0 Farmer (Roybal) (SH) – 12:27 5–0 Farmer (Roybal, Carron) (SH)– 13:37 6–0 Dodson (Carron, Roman) – 33:36 7–0 Roybal (McKee) – 40:07 8–0
	8 min	Penalties	12 min
	24	Shots	4

13 March 2018 19:00

Czech Republic

3–0 (0–0, 1–0, 2–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 4,569

Game reference
	Michal Vápenka	Goalies	Shinobu Fukushima	Referee: Jonathan Morrison Linesmen: Han Youl Andreas Lundén
	Kubeš (Hábl) – 27:26 1–0 Šafránek (Hrbek, Krupička) – 33:11 2–0 Kubeš (ENG) – 44:42 3–0
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	11	Shots	5

Classification round

Bracket

	5–8th place semifinals				Fifth place game
	14 March
	Norway	6
					16 March
	Japan	1
					Norway	5
	14 March
					Czech Republic	2
	Czech Republic (GWS)	4
	Sweden	3
					Seventh place game
					16 March
					Japan	1
					Sweden	5

5–8th place semifinals

14 March 2018 16:00

Czech Republic

4–3 GWS (1–2, 0–1, 2–0) (OT: 0–0) (SO: 1–0)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,032

Game reference
	Michal Vápenka	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson	Referee: Owe Lüthcke Linesmen: Matthew Fergenbaum Han Youl
	0–1 06:14 – Ingvarsson 0–2 07:10 – Kasperi Krupička (PP) – 08:59 1–2 1–3 16:12 – Ingvarsson (Gyllsten, Kasperi) Hábl (Kubeš, Geier) (PP2) – 34:47 2–3 Doležal (Geier, Kubeš) – 43:25 3–3
	Geier Krupička Hábl Geier	Shootout	Kasperi Gyllsten Ingvarsson Ingvarsson
	8 min	Penalties	10 min
	25	Shots	8

14 March 2018 20:00

Norway

6–1 (2–0, 3–1, 1–0)

Japan

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 3,919

Game reference
	Kjell Christian Hamar	Goalies	Shinobu Fukushima Kazuya Mochizuki	Referee: Johnathan Morrison Linesmen: Jan Vaněk Leon Wesley
	Bakke (Øiseth) (PP) – 02:25 1–0 Pedersen (Bøgle, Nordstoga) – 09:37 2–0 2–1 18:20 – Takahashi (Horie) (SH) Bøgle – 18:34 3–1 Pedersen (Hamre) – 18:55 4–1 Bakke (Værnes, Bøgle) – 20:02 5–1 Pedersen (Bøgle, Nordstoga) – 35:28 6–1
	0 min	Penalties	4 min
	14	Shots	6

Seventh place game

16 March 2018 16:00

Japan

1–5 (0–1, 1–2, 0–2)

Sweden

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 5,979

Game reference
	Shinobu Fukushima	Goalies	Ulf Nilsson	Referee: Owe Lüthcke Linesmen: Jan Vaněk Leon Wesley
	0–1 00:52 – Gyllsten (Kasperi, Meng) Takahashi (Uehara) – 16:25 1–1 1–2 19:19 – Ingvarsson (Meng, Kasperi) (PP) 1–3 27:33 – Kasperi (Hedberg) (SH) 1–4 37:24 – Holm (Rakos, Kasperi) 1–5 44:17 – Ingvarsson (Gyllsten, P. Nilsson)
	4 min	Penalties	4 min
	10	Shots	14

Fifth place game

16 March 2018 20:00

Norway

5–2 (2–1, 1–0, 2–1)

Czech Republic

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 4,805

Game reference
	Kjell Christian Hamar	Goalies	Martin Kudela	Referee: Kevin Webinger Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Han Youl
	Pedersen (Bøgle) – 00:44 1–0 Bakke (Værnes) – 03:39 2–0 2–1 14:18 – Krupička (Motyčka) Pedersen (PP) – 23:44 3–1 3–2 35:29 – Kubeš (Hábl, Geier) (PP) Bakke (Værnes, Pedersen) – 40:05 4–2 Bakke (SH, ENG) – 42:03 5–2
	10 min	Penalties	31 min
	12	Shots	9

Medal round

Bracket

	Semifinals				Gold medal game
	15 March
	Canada	7
					18 March
	South Korea	0
					Canada	1
	15 March
					United States (OT)	2
	United States	10
	Italy	1
					Bronze medal game
					17 March
					South Korea	1
					Italy	0

Semifinals

15 March 2018 12:00

Canada

7–0 (4–0, 1–0, 2–0)

South Korea

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,603

Game reference
	Corbin Watson Dominic Larocque	Goalies	Lee Jae-woong	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Andreas Lundén David Nothegger
	Hickey (Bridges) – 04:17 1–0 Cozzolino – 06:00 2–0 Westlake (Cozzolino, McGregor) – 13:25 3–0 Bridges (Delaney, Armstrong) – 14:19 4–0 Bridges (McGregor, Dixon) (PP) – 18:42 5–0 McGregor (Westlake) – 35:48 6–0 McGregor (Armstrong, Cozzolino) – 42:41 7–0
	8 min	Penalties	2 min
	24	Shots	2

15 March 2018 20:00

United States

10–1 (5–0, 3–0, 2–1)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 4,889

Game reference
	Steve Cash Jen Lee	Goalies	Gabriele Araudo Santino Stillitano	Referee: Kevin Webinger Linesmen: Chae Young-jin Matt Clark
	Grove (Landeros) – 03:23 1–0 Misiewicz (Pauls, Roybal) – 03:58 2–0 Roybal (Pauls, Misiewicz) – 04:09 3–0 Landeros (PP) – 13:50 4–0 McDermott (Grove) – 14:56 5–0 Roybal (Misiewicz) (PP) – 22:52 6–0 Landeros (Carron, Farmer) – 23:35 7–0 Farmer (Page, Pauls) – 27:44 8–0 McKee (Grove, Page) – 33:32 9–0 9–1 38:30 – Corvino (Depaoli) (PP) Landeros (Roybal, Hanning) (PP) – 42:03 10–1
	16 min	Penalties	14 min
	33	Shots	4

Bronze medal game

17 March 2018 12:00

South Korea

1–0 (0–0, 0–0, 1–0)

Italy

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,534

Game reference
	Lee Jae-woong	Goalies	Gabriele Araudo	Referee: Johnathan Morrison Linesmen: Matt Clark Matthew Fergenbaum
	Jang D. (Jung, Lee Jo.) – 41:42 1–0
	2 min	Penalties	2 min
	14	Shots	9

Gold medal game

18 March 2018 12:00

Canada

1–2 OT (1–0, 0–0, 0–1) (OT: 0–1)

United States

Gangneung Hockey Centre Attendance: 6,096

Game reference
	Dominic Larocque	Goalies	Steve Cash	Referee: Kristijan Nikolic Linesmen: Andreas Lundén David Nothegger
	Bridges (Delaney, Hickey) – 12:06 1–0 1–1 44:22 – Farmer (McKee, Roybal) (EA) 1–2 48:30 – Farmer (Pauls)
	4 min	Penalties	2 min
	12	Shots	16

Final ranking

Pos	Grp	Team	Pld	W	OTW	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
	B	United States	5	4	1	0	0	40	2	+38	14
	A	Canada	5	4	0	1	0	43	2	+41	13
	B	South Korea (H)	5	2	1	0	2	8	18	−10	8
4	A	Italy	5	1	1	0	3	6	23	−17	5
5	A	Norway	5	3	0	1	1	16	15	+1	10
6	B	Czech Republic	5	1	1	1	2	11	21	−10	6
7	A	Sweden	5	1	0	1	3	9	27	−18	4
8	B	Japan	5	0	0	0	5	3	28	−25	0

Source: PyeongChang 2018
(H) Host

Statistics

Scoring leaders

List shows the top ten skaters sorted by points, then goals.

Player	GP	G	A	Pts	+/−	PIM	POS
Declan Farmer	5	11	6	17	+11	0	F
Brody Roybal	5	10	7	17	+15	0	F
Tyler McGregor	5	8	5	13	+11	14	F
Liam Hickey	5	6	5	11	+12	0	F
Nikko Landeros	4	4	7	11	+14	2	D
Rob Armstrong	5	4	7	11	+17	0	D
Billy Bridges	5	6	4	10	+12	4	F
Dom Cozzolino	5	3	7	10	+15	2	F
Josh Misiewicz	5	3	7	10	+12	4	F
Adam Dixon	5	2	8	10	+18	2	D

GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; +/− = Plus/minus; PIM = Penalties in minutes; POS = Position
Source: PyeongChang 2018

Leading goaltenders

Only the top five goaltenders, based on save percentage, who have played at least 40% of their team's minutes, are included in this list.

Player	TOI	GA	GAA	SA	Sv%	SO
Corbin Watson	97:43	0	0.00	6	100.00	1
Steve Cash	152:44	1	0.29	31	96.77	2
Dominic Larocque	130:47	2	0.69	23	91.30	1
Michal Vápenka	144:56	6	1.86	35	82.86	1
Gabriele Araudo	154:15	8	2.33	42	80.95	1

TOI = Time on ice (minutes:seconds); GA = Goals against; GAA = Goals against average; SA = Shots against; Sv% = Save percentage; SO = Shutouts
Source: PyeongChang 2018

Awards

Best players selected by the directorate:

• Best Goaltender: Lee Jae-woong
• Best Defenceman: Adam Dixon
• Best Forward: Brody Roybal

Source: PyeongChang 2018