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Hey guys. I tried to asked chatgpt about this as I couldn't honestly remember.

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The last time the U.S. men's hockey team won first place in a major international tournament was in 1996, when they won the World Cup of Hockey, defeating Canada in the finals.

In the Olympics, their last gold medal was in 1980 at the Lake Placid Winter Games, famous for the "Miracle on Ice."


Does this make USA historical chockers? I mean for a country that large with what you would assume and (have) a lot of talent you'd assume they would slip on a banana shell at some point and score winning goal by accident but it just doesn't happen.

Is there some loser culture in the team similar to Toronto?

What do you guys think?
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This would be better for international thread but regardless..

The last thing US Hockey has won at the mens level was the 1996 World Cup. No other wins or golds in Olympics with or without NHLers, and IIHF Worlds since then.

Last Olympic gold was 1980 Lake Placid, which also counted as the IIHF World Championship tournament winner that year. The last time US Hockey has won any sort of gold medal at the IIHF Worlds outside the Olympic circuit was 1933. Almost a century since their last World Championship.

If thats what you were looking for, thats the info. Id say they are due for a win at some point be it at the Worlds in spring or Olympics/World Cups. US talent and depth is growing at all levels every year.
 
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ViD said:
I like how people always criticize Russia for the lack of gold medals in the best in best tournaments but they always forget about the U.S. that does not really have much to show for either
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Russia has been a disappointment on best on best going back to the Bure, Fedorov years. USA was a bounce away from gold in 2010 and same thing tonight. They haven’t won but haven’t had too many tourneys where they just kinda died without a whimper like Russia has.
 
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I like how people always criticize Russia for the lack of gold medals in the best in best tournaments but they always forget about the U.S. that does not really have much to show for either
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the main reason why is because hockey is barely a thing in the USA. they have a good team only because of the sheer number of humans that live there. russia actually loves hockey and their hockey players are pretty much the best athletes in their country, similar to canada but unlike the usa.
 
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Matty Sundin said:
Russia has been a disappointment on best on best going back to the Bure, Fedorov years. USA was a bounce away from gold in 2010 and same thing tonight. They haven’t won but haven’t had too many tourneys where they just kinda died without a whimper like Russia has.
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Yes but you forgot about this one. So that means the Russians are more accomplished than the US
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USA only got good at hockey recently, hockey took a decade off in best on best, USA doesn't care about the world championships.

So there's your answer basically.
 
Signupnow said:
Hey guys. I tried to asked chatgpt about this as I couldn't honestly remember.

Answer.

The last time the U.S. men's hockey team won first place in a major international tournament was in 1996, when they won the World Cup of Hockey, defeating Canada in the finals.

In the Olympics, their last gold medal was in 1980 at the Lake Placid Winter Games, famous for the "Miracle on Ice."


Does this make USA historical chockers? I mean for a country that large with what you would assume and (have) a lot of talent you'd assume they would slip on a banana shell at some point and score winning goal by accident but it just doesn't happen.

Is there some loser culture in the team similar to Toronto?

What do you guys think?
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1996.

It’s not that they’re chokers, it’s that we’re better.

Good game, America.

You can’t beat us.
 
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The don't care seem to be the answer in these sort of talks. Its true that America invent their own sports that only they play in and only they care about... Why is not America participating in global sports?

I mean let's be honest winning the American football league to the rest of the world is like some team down in new Zealand winning kiwi squash competition, if there's such a thing.
 
The last best on best tournament they won was the 1996 World Cup of Hockey.

Sweden, Russia, Canada, Finland have all won things since then. It's been a while.
 
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Signupnow said:
Why is not America participating in global sports?
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Most Medals and Most Gold Medals at like every Summer Olympics. And Track & Field is a thing for guys that have bad hands.

Signupnow said:
I mean let's be honest winning the American football league to the rest of the world is like some team down in new Zealand winning kiwi squash competition, if there's such a thing.
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Biggest sporting league in the world, and it's not even close. The next two are also American sporting leagues.

List of professional sports leagues by revenue - Wikipedia

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USA goes hard in the sports it cares the most about. A little silly to compare a sport like Ice Hockey which is extremely niche on a global scale and either doesn't exist at all or only exists at what is essentially a house league that feeds into a men's league level in most of the notable sporting countries, to something like Basketball which has a very active presence in much of the world.
 
ViD said:
I like how people always criticize Russia for the lack of gold medals in the best in best tournaments but they always forget about the U.S. that does not really have much to show for either
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US didn't become one of the elite nations in hockey until 1996. Soviets/Russia have been one several decades longer. Hence more chokejobs.
 
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Mathieukferland said:
The age groups between 97 and 01 are the strongest the USA have ever had, whilst they have probably the best team paper right now and best team they will probably ever have
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they got their first ever back to back U20s just this year, so a bit premature to say "will probably ever have", the trend has overwhelmingly been towards a closing of gap between two countries and separation from rest, a couple even games and ending in an ot in the first ever time playing at this level in 11 years probably doesn't necessarily change that. sure if this becomes an every 2 year thing rotating between olympics and this and they lose like 5 more in a row, yeah then maybe it just never comes to be, but there's not enough sample on current gen to think an alarm bell would have any reason to be raised unless people are just getting silly
 
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