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SCORIGAMI: United States 10, Austria 6 is the first 10-6 game in Olympic Hockey (Men) history

Final · February 13, 1988

Olympic Hockey (Men) got a brand-new final score on February 13, 1988. United States beat Austria 10-6, and in every Olympic Hockey (Men) game since 1920, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 10-6 sits among nearby Olympic Hockey (Men) scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 16-2, Finland over Norway on February 9, 1984, 4 years earlier. This is Olympic Hockey (Men)'s 1st new final score of the 1988 season, and the grid now holds 40.6 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 11-6 had still never happened and 10-7 had still never happened. It sits in the busy heart of the grid, proof that even an ordinary-looking score can go a league's whole history without happening.

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