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A '''Slovakian national (men's) ice hockey''' team is one of the major ice hockey national teams in the globe. When of 2005, a IIHF ranks them 4th behind Canada, Sweden, and Czech Republic. A team is controlled per Slovak Ice Hockey Federation. around the go sextet years, Slovakithe has won 3 medallion at the World Championships including a gold in 2002. Slovakithe has a amount of 12,375 players. Their head coach is František Hossa (father of Marián Hossa).

Current top players
ĽuboÅ¡ BarteÄ?ko Peter Bondra Zdeno Chára Pavol Demitra Marián Gáborík Michal HandzuÅ¡ Marián Hossa Ján Lašák Ivan Majeský Ladislav Nagy Vladimír Országh Žigmund Pálffy Jozef Stümpel Miroslav Å atan Rastislav Staňa Ľubomír Višňovský Richard Zedník

Olympic record
1994 - Finished in Sixth place 1998 - Finished in 10th place 2002 - Finished in Thirteenth place

World Cup record
1996 - Did not qualify for playoffs 2004 - Lost quarter-finals

World Championship record
1994 - Finished in 21st place (winner of the "Pool C") 1995 - Finished in Thirteenth place (winner of the "Pool B") 1996 - Finished in Ninth place 1997 - Finished in Eighth place 1998 - Finished in Seventh place 1999 - Finished in Seventh place 2000 - Won silver medal 2001 - Finished in Seventh place 2002 - Won gold medal 2003 - Won bronze medal 2004 - Finished in Quaternary place 2005 - Finished in Fifth place

look at as well Czechoslovakian national ice hockey team