Ice Hockey
- For the first time, professional players from the National Hockey League participate in the Winter Olympics. And also for the first time in Olympic history, women took part in ice hockey.
- Women's Gold – United States won 3–1 over Canada
- Men's Gold – Czech Republic won 1–0 over Russia
- Art Ross Memorial Trophy as the NHL's leading scorer during the regular season: Jaromir Jagr, Pittsburgh Penguins
- Hart Memorial Trophy – for the NHL's Most Valuable Player: Dominik Hasek – Buffalo Sabres
- Stanley Cup – Detroit Red Wings defeated the Washington Capitals 4 games to 0.
- World Hockey Championship
- Men's champion: Sweden defeated Finland
- Junior Men's champion: Russia defeated Canada
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“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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