Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held at Canada Hockey Place, home of the National Hockey League's Vancouver Canucks, and at UBC Winter Sports Centre, home of the Canadian Interuniversity Sport's UBC Thunderbirds.  Changes from previous tournaments. The 2010 tournament will mark the first time since NHL players were allowed to compete, that the Olympics will be held in a city with an NHL team. For the first time, Olympic games will be played on a narrower, NHL-sized ice rink, measuring 61x26 meters (200x85 feet), instead of the international size of 60x30 meters (200x98.5 feet). This change is expected to save $10 million (CAD) in construction costs and allow more spectators to attend games.

This will also be the first Olympics in which the four-official system, with two referees and two linesmen, will be used during the men's tournament. The NHL began using the two-referee system since their 1998–99 seasons, while the IIHF first started using it in its major men's championship tournaments since the 2008 IIHF World Championship. However, for the women's tournament in Vancouver, the IIHF still plans to only use the standard three-official system with one referee and two linesmen, saying that the four-official system is not currently needed in women's international hockey at this time.
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