group stage

Matches for the final day are, there's one kind of throwaway game, but there's USSR and Canada and USA versus Czechoslovakia.

So US had lost to Czechoslovakia in the group stage by a score of 4-3.

And in that final round robin tournament, Czechs fell apart.

Oh, no.

Don't tell me 1980.

Oh, no. 1992.

Albertville was the very first tour- uh, Olympic tournament to have a single elimination format after the group stage.

Wow.

Okay

... and that was the most during the, um, the group stage.

Uh, Bulgaria equaled that.

So the Swedish were finding a way to break the Dutch lines and get shots off on target.

So, uh, so the Dutch progressed out of the group in a, a relative comfort, and they've, they've, they've started...

They already look, um, look like the side is coming together.

But, uh, but it's, I guess it's really in that, that next group stage that, um, they really start kind of, kind of get going, I guess, 'cause it's difficult.

That second, that second group stage is a difficult, difficult one.