Germany men's national ice hockey team
The Coat of arms of Germany is the badge used on the players jerseys
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| Nickname(s) | Träger der Adler (The Eagle Carriers) |
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| 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) |
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| IIHF code | GER |
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| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 10  3 |
| Highest IIHF | 8 (first in 2003) |
| Lowest IIHF | 13 (first in 2014) |
| First international | |
 Germany 9–1 Switzerland  (Montreux, Switzerland; 10 January 1910) |
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| Biggest win | |
 Germany 14–0 Yugoslavia  (Ljubljana, Slovenia; 10 February 2000) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Soviet Union 10–0 Germany (Zug, Switzerland; 7 December 1990)  Canada 10–0 Germany (Prague, Czech Republic; 3 May 2015) |
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| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 60 (first in 1930) |
| Best result |
 (1930, 1953) |
| IIHF European Championships | |
| Appearances | 9 |
| Best result |
(1910, 1911, 1914) |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 20 (first in 1928) |
| Medals |
 (1932, 1976) |
| Medal record | ||
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1932 Lake Placid | Team |
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1976 Innsbruck | Team |
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1930 Austria/France/Germany | |
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1953 Switzerland | |
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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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