High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The men's tournament in ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, February 16 to 28, 2010. Games were hosted at two venues Canada Hockey Place (renamed from "General Motors Place" for the Olympics) and UBC Thunderbird Arena. It was the fourth time since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano that National Hockey League players have been eligible to compete. These Olympics were the first to take place in a city with an NHL team since then. Teams from twelve national hockey associations competed, seeded into three groups for the preliminary round. The tournament consisted of 30 games: 18 in the preliminary round (teams played the other teams in their own group); 4 qualification playoff games; 4 quarter-final games; 2 semi-final games; 1 bronze-medal game; and 1 gold-medal game.