Triple Gold Club

[1] Tomas Jonsson, Mats Näslund, and Håkan Loob became the first members on 27 February 1994 when Sweden won the gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics.

[1] From the time of their first victory, Niklas Kronwall, Mikael Samuelsson and Henrik Zetterberg took the least time to join the club, winning the Olympics and World Championships in 2006 (as members of the Swedish national team) and the Stanley Cup in 2008 (as members of the Detroit Red Wings).

Ten members of the Triple Gold Club have won the Stanley Cup as part of the Detroit Red Wings, more than any other NHL team.

[12] On 29 May 2022, Valtteri Filppula became the latest member of the club, playing for Finland in the 2022 IIHF World Championship.

[13] Additionally, many Eastern bloc players were not allowed (some defected) to play in the NHL and win the Stanley Cup before the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.

[19][20] The Olympic Games were originally intended for amateur athletes, so the players of the NHL and other professional leagues were not allowed to play.

[27] In the 2000s, the tournament became more competitive as the "big six" teams (Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Sweden and the United States) became evenly matched.

[28] The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy awarded to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs champion.

The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America[29] and is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions.

Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made each year; winners keep it until a new champion is crowned.

[30] It is the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, management and club staff engraved on its chalice.