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Germany men's national ice hockey team

Germany
Shirt badge/Association crest
The Coat of arms of Germany is the badge used on the players jerseys
Nickname(s) Träger der Adler (The Eagle Carriers)
Association Deutscher Eishockey-Bund
General Manager Marco Sturm
Head coach Marco Sturm
Assistants Tobias Abstreiter
Marco Dietzel
Michael Elmer
Christian Künast
Geoff Ward
Captain Marcel Goc
Most games Udo Kießling (320)
Most points Erich Kühnhackl (210)
Team colors                    
IIHF code GER
Germany national hockey team jerseys 2014.png
Ranking
Current IIHF 10 Increase3
Highest IIHF 8 (first in 2003)
Lowest IIHF 13 (first in 2014)
First international
German Empire Germany 9–1 Switzerland  
(Montreux, Switzerland; 10 January 1910)
Biggest win
 Germany 14–0 Yugoslavia Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg
(Ljubljana, Slovenia; 10 February 2000)
Biggest defeat
 Soviet Union 10–0 Germany 
(Zug, Switzerland; 7 December 1990)
 Canada 10–0 Germany 
(Prague, Czech Republic; 3 May 2015)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances 60 (first in 1930)
Best result 2nd, silver medalist(s) (1930, 1953)
IIHF European Championships
Appearances 9
Best result 2nd, silver medalist(s) (1910, 1911, 1914)
Olympics
Appearances 20 (first in 1928)
Medals 3rd, bronze medalist(s) (1932, 1976)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 1932 Lake Placid Team
Bronze medal – third place 1976 Innsbruck Team
World Championship
Silver medal – second place 1930 Austria/France/Germany
Silver medal – second place 1953 Switzerland
Bronze medal – third place 1934 Italy

The German men's national ice hockey team first participated in serious international competition at the 1911 European Hockey Championship. When Germany was split after World War II, a separate East Germany national ice hockey team existed until 1990. By 1991, the East German teams and players were merged into the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund association.

The team is not considered to be as elite as Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden or the United States, but they are ranked 10th in the world (2016) by the IIHF. Since re-unification, their best recent results include finishing 6th place at the 2003 World Championships where they lost a close quarter-final match in overtime to Canada, and 4th at the 2010 World Championships where they lost to Sweden in the bronze medal game. Previously, they finished third in the European Group and qualified for the quarter-finals at the 1996 World Cup after a surprising 7–1 victory against the Czech Republic. In the 1992 Olympics, they lost to Canada 4–3 in an overtime shoot-out in the quarter-finals.

Germany has never won an international competition, and their most recent medal was bronze in the 1976 Olympic Winter Games. This was their best result as well as a silver medal at the 1930 World Championships.


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