Canada won 6 of the first 7 Olympic Gold Medals in Men's Ice Hockey - with the other being Great Britain, which was likely mostly Canadians as well. Then the USSR won 8 of the next 10.
I didn't dig into all the scores, but in the first 3 games of the 1924 Olympic Winter Games (the first Winter games, even though Ice Hockey was in the 1920 Summer Games), Canada scored 85 goals, with no goals against.
So it's certainly not unprecedented, but it would be nice to see the rest of the world start catching up faster.
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