Slovakia men's national ice hockey team

men's national ice hockey team representing Slovakia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Remove ads

The Slovak men's national ice hockey team is one of the best national ice hockey teams in the world. As of 2008, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), the world governing body of ice hockey, ranks them as the eighth best national team. The team is operated by the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation under general manager Peter Bondra, and head coach Ján Filc. In the last six years, Slovakia has won three medals at the World Championships, including a gold medal in 2002. Slovakia has a total of 12,375 hockey players (0.23% of the population).

Remove ads

History

The Slovak national team was created after Czechoslovakia was split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For years, the Czechs kept control over how the Czechoslovakian national team was run, and limited how many Slovak players were on the team.[source?] When the country became two, the Czech Republic team was allowed to compete at the highest pool (A), and the IIHF ruled that because fewer players of the former Czechoslovak team were Slovaks, Slovakia have to start international play in pool C, the lowest group. However, Slovakia's play in the lower pools won it promotion to pool A by 1996.

Remove ads

Olympic record

  • 1994 - Finished in 6th place
  • 1998 - Finished in 10th place
  • 2002 - Finished in 13th place
  • 2006 - Finished in 5th place (see roster)
  • 2010 - Finished in 4th place

World Cup record

  • 1996 - Did not qualify
  • 2004 - Lost in quarter-finals

World Championship record

Thumb
Slovakia's team at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
  • 1994 - Finished in 21st place (winner of the "Pool C")
  • 1995 - Finished in 13th place (winner of the "Pool B")
  • 1996 - Finished in 10th place
  • 1997 - Finished in 9th place
  • 1998 - Finished in 7th place
  • 1999 - Finished in 7th place
  • 2000 - Won silver medal
  • 2001 - Finished in 7th place
  • 2002 - Won gold medal
  • 2003 - Won bronze medal
  • 2004 - Finished in 4th place
  • 2005 - Finished in 5th place
  • 2006 - Finished in 8th place
  • 2007 - Finished in 6th place
  • 2008 - Finished in 13th place
  • 2009 - Finished in 10th place
Remove ads

World Championship 2009 Roster

More information Goaltenders, # ...
More information Defensemen, # ...
More information Forwards, # ...
Remove ads

2002 Gold Medallists

Goalies: Ján Lašák, Rastislav Staňa, Miroslav Šimonovič.

Defensemen: Jerguš Bača, Ladislav Čierny, Radoslav Hecl, Richard Lintner, Dušan Milo, Peter Smrek, Martin Štrbák, Ľubomír Višňovský.

Forwards: Ľuboš Bartečko, Peter Bondra, Michal Handzuš, Miroslav Hlinka, Ladislav Nagy, Vladimír Országh, Žigmund Pálffy, Rastislav Pavlikovský, Róbert Petrovický, Peter Pucher, Radovan Somík, Jozef Stümpel, Miroslav Šatan, Róbert Tomík, Marek Uram.

Remove ads

References

  • - from the National Hockey League
  • Archived 2007-12-04 at the Wayback Machine - from Sports Illustrated
  • - from International Ice Hockey Federation
Loading related searches...

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads