The competition, held from 9 to 23 February, was won by the Unified Team in its only appearance.

The team was composed of some newly emerged nations from the former Soviet Union, which had dissolved just weeks before the Games began.

[1] Sergei Bautin Igor Boldin Nikolai Borschevsky Vyacheslav Butsayev Vyacheslav Bykov Evgeni Davydov Alexei Zhitnik Darius Kasparaitis Nikolai Khabibulin Yuri Khmylev Andrei Khomutov Andrei Kovalenko Alexei Kovalev Igor Kravchuk Vladimir Malakhov Dmitri Mironov Sergei Petrenko Vitali Prokhorov Mikhail Shtalenkov Andrei TrefilovDmitri Yushkevich Alexei Zhamnov Sergei Zubov Dave Archibald Todd Brost Sean Burke Kevin Dahl Curt Giles David Hannan Gordon Hynes Fabian Joseph Joe Juneau Trevor Kidd Patrick Lebeau Chris Lindberg Eric Lindros Kent Manderville Adrien Plavsic Dan Ratushny Sam Saint-Laurent Brad Schlegel Wallace Schreiber Randy Smith David Tippett Brian Tutt Jason Woolley Patrik Augusta Petr Bříza Jaromír DraganLeo Gudas Miloslav Hořava Petr Hrbek Otakar Janecký Tomáš Jelínek Drahomír Kadlec Kamil Kašťák Robert Lang Igor Liba Ladislav Lubina František Procházka Petr Rosol Bedřich Ščerban Jiří Šlégr Richard Šmehlík Róbert Švehla Oldřich Svoboda Radek Ťoupal Peter Veselovský Richard Žemlička The Olympic tournament was to be contested by twelve nations.

Gold medalists Unified Team averaged 24 years and 2 months.

[3] Russian goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin was the third on the depth chart and never played when the Unified Team won gold in Albertville, France.