Slovenia national ice hockey team
The official logo of the Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia.
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| Nickname(s) | Risi (The Lynx) |
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| Association | Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia |
| Head coach | Kari Savolainen |
| Assistants | Gaber Glavič Edo Terglav |
| Captain | Jan Muršak |
| Most games | Tomaž Razingar (212) |
| Most points | Tomaž Vnuk (171) |
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| IIHF code | SLO |
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| Ranking | |
| Current IIHF | 15 
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| Highest IIHF | 12 (2014) |
| Lowest IIHF | 19 (2010) |
| First international | |
 Austria 1–0 Slovenia  (Klagenfurt, Austria; 20 March 1992) |
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| Biggest win | |
Slovenia 29–0 South Africa  (Ljubljana, Slovenia; 15 March 1993) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Finland 12–0 Slovenia (Tampere, Finland; 28 April 2003) |
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| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 9 (first in 2002) |
| Best result | 13th (2002 and 2005) |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 2 (first in 2014) |
The Slovenian men's national ice hockey team is controlled by the Ice Hockey Federation of Slovenia. The team is currently ranked 15th in the world by IIHF as of the 2017 IIHF World Ranking. Their best record is 13th place at the World Ice Hockey Championships, while their highest IIHF ranking is 12th place.
Six players from Slovenia have been drafted into the NHL since 1998; Anže Kopitar and Jan Muršak have played in the league.
As a member of Yugoslavia, Slovenia had been a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) since 1939 and participated in several World Championships and five Winter Olympics. Many of the players on the Yugoslav national team came from Slovenia: from 1939, when Yugoslavia first played a World Championship, to 1991 when it was broken up, 91% of all players on the national team were Slovene, and the entire roster for the team at the 1984 Winter Olympics, held in the Yugoslav city of Sarajevo were from Slovenia.
Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, and joined the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in 1992 along with Croatia and several former Soviet republics. They first played as an independent nation at the 1993 World Championship, hosting the Group C tournament, the lowest tier. They reached the elite division for the first time in 2002 IIHF World Championship. They played at their first Winter Olympics at the 2014 Sochi Games.
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