Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team
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The Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team was the national ice hockey team of Czechoslovakia, and competed from 1920 until 1992. The successor to the Bohemia national ice hockey team, which was a European power prior to World War I, the Czechoslovak national team first appeared at the 1920 Summer Olympics, two years after the creation of the state. In the 1940s, they established themselves as the best team in Europe, becoming the first team from the continent to win two World Championships (1947 and 1949). After the arrival of the Soviet Union on the international hockey scene in the 1950s, the Czechoslovaks regularly fought Sweden and Canada for silver and bronze medals, and sometimes beat the Soviets. In total, they won the gold medal six times.
Due to the split of the country Czechoslovakia into the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the team was replaced in 1993 with the Czech and the Slovak national teams. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) recognized the Czech national team as a successor of Czechoslovakia national team and kept it in the top group, while the Slovak national team was entered into the lowest level, Pool C, winning promotion in successive years to join the elite division in 1996.
Notable events
- First game: 24 April 1920, Antwerp: Canada 15–0 Czechoslovakia
- Last game: 19 December 1992, Moscow: Czechoslovakia 7–2 Switzerland
- Largest victory: 3 February 1939, Basel: Czechoslovakia 24–0 Yugoslavia 21 February 1947, Prague: Czechoslovakia 24–0 Belgium 25 April 1951, East Berlin: Czechoslovakia 27–3 East Germany 4 March 1957, Moscow: Czechoslovakia 25–1 Japan
- Largest defeat: 28 January 1924, Chamonix: Canada 30–0 Czechoslovakia
- Plane crash on 8 November 1948. Six players on the way to an exhibition tour in the UK were killed in the crash of a charter flight from Paris to London.
Notable players
- Mike Buckna
- Ladislav Troják
- Ján Starší
- Jaroslav Drobný
- Vladimír Dzurilla
- Jozef Golonka
- Dominik Hašek
- Ivan Hlinka
- Jiří Holeček
- Jan Hrdina
- František Kaberle Sr.
- Karel Koželuh
- Igor Liba
- Vincent Lukáč
- Josef Maleček
- Vladimír Martinec
- Václav Nedomanský
- Milan Nový
- Dušan Pašek
- Jan Peka
- František Pospíšil
- Jaroslav Pouzar
- Dárius Rusnák
- Vladimír Růžička
- Marián Šťastný
- Peter Šťastný
- Jan Suchý
- František Tikal
Former National jerseys
Olympic record
Canada Cup record
| Year | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Coach | Captain | Finish | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 23 | 20 | Karel Gut, Ján Starší | František Pospíšil | Final | 2nd |
| 1981 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 17 | Luděk Bukač, Stanislav Neveselý | Milan Nový | Semi-finals | 3rd |
| 1984 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 21 | Luděk Bukač, Stanislav Neveselý | Vladimír Caldr | Round-robin | 5th |
| 1987 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 15 | Ján Starší, František Pospíšil | Dušan Pašek | Semi-finals | 4th |
| 1991 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 18 | Ivan Hlinka, Jaroslav Walter | František Musil | Round-robin | 6th |
European Championship record
| Games | GP | W | T | L | GF | GA | Coach | Captain | Finish | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910–1914 | did not participate. WasBohemia. | |||||||||
| Sweden 1921 Stockholm | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | ? | ? | Final | |
| Switzerland 1922 St. Moritz | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | ? | ? | Round-robin | |
| Belgium 1923 Antwerp | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 9 | ? | ? | Round-robin | |
| Italy 1924 Milan | did not participate. | |||||||||
| Czechoslovakia 1925 Štrbské Pleso, Starý Smokovec | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | ? | ? | Round-robin | |
| Switzerland 1926 Davos | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 18 | 8 | ? | ? | Final round | |
| Austria 1927 Wien | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | ? | ? | Round-robin | 5th |
| Hungary 1929 Budapest | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | ? | ? | Final | |
| Germany 1932 Berlin | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 10 | ? | ? | Final round | 5th |