Germany national men's 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 | Stefan Schaidnagel |
| Head coach | Marco Sturm |
| Assistants |
Tobias Abstreiter Patrick Dallaire Johannes Egelseer Geoff Ward |
| Captain | Dennis Seidenberg |
| Most games | Udo Kießling (320) |
| Most points | Erich Kühnhackl (210) |
| Team colors | |
| IIHF code | GER |
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| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 8 
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| Highest IIHF | 8 (first in 2003) |
| Lowest IIHF | 13 (first in 2014) |
| First international | |
England  1–0 Germany  (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 | 63 (first in 1930) |
| Best result |
 (1930, 1953) |
| European Championships | |
| Appearances | 8 (first in 1910) |
| Best result |
(1910, 1911, 1914) |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 20 (first in 1928) |
| Medals |
 Silver (2018) Bronze (1932, 1976) |
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 8th in the world (2017) 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 silver in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, when they lost to the Olympic Athletes From Russia 4-3 in overtime. It was the first time that Germany had reached the Gold Medal Game at the Winter Olympics. This was their best result, tied with a silver medal at the 1930 World Championships.
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