democratically elected him to go because he hadn't played at the end and I believed he can score with a techniques somewhat." – About a penalty shooting against Canada at Nagano Olympics. "It doesn't happen very often at us but we had a bigger will to win than Canada had." – After a win against Canada at Nagano Olympics. "I got information about numbers of people standing at various places at home in the beginning of the game. So we thank them that they crossed their fingers for us, it was probably somehow worthy and we will be proud again that we are Czechs and it will not be just because of the hockey." – After a win of golden Olympic medals at Nagano Olympics. References External links Hockey History: Ivan Hlinka 1950 births 2004 deaths Czech ice hockey centres Czech ice hockey coaches Czech Republic men's national ice hockey team coaches Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Canada Czechoslovak expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Czechoslovak ice hockey centres Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team coaches EV Zug players HC Litvínov players Ice hockey players at the 1972 Winter Olympics Ice hockey players at the 1976 Winter Olympics IIHF Hall of Fame inductees Medalists at the 1972 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic gold medalists for Czechoslovakia Olympic ice hockey players of Czechoslovakia Olympic medalists in ice hockey Olympic silver medalists for Czechoslovakia Sportspeople from Most (city) Pittsburgh Penguins coaches Recipients of Medal of Merit (Czech Republic) Road incident deaths in the Czech Republic Undrafted National Hockey League players Vancouver Canucks players Czechoslovak expatriate ice hockey people