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The Slovak national (men's) ice hockey team is one of the major ice hockey national teams in the world. As of 2005, the IIHF ranks them fourth behind Canada, Sweden, and Czech Republic. The team is controlled by the Slovak Ice Hockey Federation. In the last six years, Slovakia has won three medals at the World Championships including a gold in 2002. Slovakia has a total of 12,375 players. Their head coach is František Hossa (father of Marián Hossa).
The Slovak team formed after the country of Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. While the Czechs were allowed to compete at the highest pool (A), the IIHF ruled that because fewer players of the former Czechoslovak team were Slovaks, the Slovakia would be required to start international play in pool C. However, Slovakia's play in the lower pools won it promotion to pool A by 1996.
2006 Olympic team
Goaltenders
- 37 Peter Budaj
- 60 Karol Križan
- 25 Ján Lašák
Defensemen
- 3 Zdeno Chára
- 68 Milan Jurčina
- 29 Ivan Majeský
- 14 Andrej Meszároš
- 7 Martin Štrbák
- 6 Radoslav Suchý
- 17 Ľubomír Višňovský
Forwards
- 23 Ľuboš Bartečko
- 12 Peter Bondra-A
- 38 Pavol Demitra-C
- 10 Marián Gáborík
- 91 Marcel Hossa
- 81 Marián Hossa
- 22 Richard Kapuš
- 28 Ronald Petrovický
- 43 Tomáš Surový
- 18 Miroslav Šatan-A
- Jozef Stümpel withdrawn due to injury
- 40 Marek Svatoš
- 20 Richard Zedník
Taxi Squad
Olympic record
World Cup record
World Championship record
- 1994 - Finished in 21st place (winner of the "Pool C")
- 1995 - Finished in 13th place (winner of the "Pool B")
- 1996 - Finished in 9th place
- 1997 - Finished in 8th place
- 1998 - Finished in 7th place
- 1999 - Finished in 7th place
- 2000 - Won silver medal
- 2001 - Finished in 7th place
- 2002 - Won gold medal
- 2003 - Won bronze medal
- 2004 - Finished in 4th place
- 2005 - Finished in 5th place
see also Czechoslovak national ice hockey team
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