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The following is a list of international ice hockey competitions where National Hockey League players have been able to participate.

Contents

Summit Series

Super Series

Canada Cup

Challenge Cup 1979

Rendez Vous 1987

World Cup

Olympics

World Championships

See also

External links

Summit Series

The Summit Series was an eight game challenge series between the Soviet National Team and a Canadian team made up of NHL hockey players. No World Hockey Association players were included in the event. Two years later, the World Hockey Association competed in the 1974 Summit Series and were defeated by the Soviets, but with no NHLers. There were however, some former NHLers playing for the WHA in the series.

Year	Winner	Runner-up
1972

Super Series

The Super Series were exhibition games between Soviet teams and NHL teams that took place on each NHL opponents' home ice in North America from 1976 to 1991. The Soviet teams were usually club teams from the Soviet hockey league. The exception was in 1983, when the Soviet National Team represented the Soviet Union. Soviet teams won 14 series, NHL teams won 2 series, and 2 series were tied.
In the following summary the winner of a series is in bold.

Year	1st Team	2nd Team	W	L	T
1976	'HC CSKA Moscow'	NHL	2	1	1
1976	'Soviet Wings Moscow'	NHL	3	1	0
1978	'HC Spartak Moscow'	NHL	3	2	0
1979	'Soviet Wings Moscow'	NHL	2	1	1
1980	'HC Dynamo Moscow'	NHL	2	1	1
1980	'HC CSKA Moscow'	NHL	3	2	0
1983	''	NHL	4	2	0
1986	'HC CSKA Moscow'	NHL	5	1	0
1986	'HC Dynamo Moscow'	NHL	2	1	1
1989	'HC CSKA Moscow'	NHL	4	2	1
1989	'NHL'	Dynamo Riga	4	2	1
1990	NHL	Khimik Voskresensk	3	3	0
1990	'NHL'	Soviet Wings Moscow	3	1	1
1990	'HC CSKA Moscow'	NHL	4	1	0
1990	'HC Dynamo Moscow'	NHL	3	2	0
1991	NHL	Khimik Voskresensk	3	3	1
1991	'HC CSKA Moscow'	NHL	6	1	0
1991	'HC Dynamo Moscow'	NHL	3	2	2

Canada Cup

Canada Cups were the major international competition for NHL players before the advent of the World Cup.

Year	Winner	Runner-up
1976
1981
1984
1987
1991

Challenge Cup 1979

Year	Winner	Runner-up
1979

Rendez Vous 1987

In 1987 two matches were held between the USSR and NHL All Stars in Quebec City, Canada in place of the annual ''NHL All Star Game''. These series were considered to have no clear winner by Canadians, although the USSR scored one more goal than did the NHL All Stars.

Game	Date	Winner	Runner-up	Score
'1st'	February 11, 1987			4-3
'2nd'	February 13, 1987			5-3

World Cup

In 1996, the World Cup of Hockey replaced the Canada Cup.

Year	Winner	Runner-up
1996
2004

Olympics

In 1998, 2002 and 2006 the NHL has had a break in the season to allow its players to participate in the Olympics.

Year	City	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1998	Nagano, Japan
2002	Salt Lake City, Utah
2006	Turin, Italy
2010	Vancouver, British Columbia

World Championships

Since 1977 there has been no limit to how many NHL players countries can send to the IIHF World Championships, but the tournament is usually played during the NHL playoffs. Because of the NHL lockout starting in 2004, all NHL players were available to participate in the 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships. Many players did however not participate because they had not played for a full season, and were therefore not in "game shape".

Year	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2005

See also

★ International Ice Hockey Federation

★ National Hockey League

★ Ice Hockey World Championships

★ NHL Challenge

External links

★ Hockey Hall of Fame's Summary of Super Series

★ Top Level Hockey World Rankings

★ Canada Versus the Soviet Union The heyday of the battle for world hockey supremacy (1972-1987)