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Financed by state coal money from the 1950s to the 1970 the Polish hockey team was a regular contender for medals in international tournaments, vastly superior to the Finns and upsetting the Swedes and Czechs from time to time. In 1976 Poland beat the dominant Soviet Union 6-4 in the World Championships after being soundly defeated by the same team 16-1 in the Winter Olympics. It was only the second time in 13 years that the Soviet Union had not won the gold.

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rdf:type	national hockey team
rdfs:label	Poland men's national ice hockey team
rdfs:comment	Financed by state coal money from the 1950s to the 1970 the Polish hockey team was a regular contender for medals in international tournaments, vastly superior to the Finns and upsetting the Swedes and Czechs from time to time. In 1976 Poland beat the dominant Soviet Union 6-4 in the World Championships after being soundly defeated by the same team 16-1 in the Winter Olympics. It was only the second time in 13 years that the Soviet Union had not won the gold.
First game	13(xsd:integer)
dcterms:subject	National teams
foaf:homepage	http://www.en.pzhl.org.pl/news.php
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IIHF Rank	22(xsd:integer)
Olympic apps	13(xsd:integer)
IIHF max	19(xsd:integer)
Regional name	IIHF European Championships
Nickname	The Eagles
Name	Poland
IIHF min	22(xsd:integer)
Olympic first	1928(xsd:integer)
Coach	Wiktor Pysz
Regional cup best
Record	385(xsd:integer)
World champ apps	23(xsd:integer)
IIHF code	POL
IIHF min date	first in 2009
general manager	Andrzej Zabawa
Asst Coach	Andrzej Slowakiewicz Jaroslav Lehocky
Largest win	21(xsd:integer)
Regional cup apps	3(xsd:integer)
Association	Polish Ice Hockey Federation
Captain	Leszek Laszkiewicz
IIHF max date	2003(xsd:integer)
Most games	Henryk Gruth
Largest loss	20(xsd:integer)
Badge size	140(xsd:integer)
Most points	Henryk Gruth
World champ best	4(xsd:integer)
World champ first	1930(xsd:integer)
abstract	Financed by state coal money from the 1950s to the 1970 the Polish hockey team was a regular contender for medals in international tournaments, vastly superior to the Finns and upsetting the Swedes and Czechs from time to time. In 1976 Poland beat the dominant Soviet Union 6-4 in the World Championships after being soundly defeated by the same team 16-1 in the Winter Olympics. It was only the second time in 13 years that the Soviet Union had not won the gold. Poland also played well in the 1980 Olympics and finished seventh out of twelve teams. They managed to pull off a huge upset in their first game by beating Finland 5-4, who would eventually advance to the medal round. In their next game, they played Canada and hoped to complete an even bigger upset. The Canadians didn't let this happen and beat the Poles 5-1. In the third game, Poland took on the five time Gold Medalists, The Soviet Union. The players knew that this would be a challenge because they had played the Soviets many times before and had lost by usually very lopsided scores, such as 8-3, 9-3, 16-1, and 20-0. The Polish team, however, had also beaten the Soviets once in the 1976 World Championship and some of the players from that game were still on the team. The team tried to keep the Russians down, but it was too much and the USSR stormed to an 8-1 win. With their toughest games out of the way, Poland would have one more chance to try and get to the Medal Round. They took on Holland and went down early in the first period but managed to tie it about four minutes later. The Dutch team scored twice more in the period to lead 3-1. Polish hero Wieslaw Jobczyk (who scored a hat trick in the 1976 upset against USSR) scored to put Poland within one goal but Holland stormed back to get two more goals before the third period to make it 5-2. The Polish ended up losing 5-3 and saw their hopes of the Medal round come to an end. They had one more game against Japan, who had not won any games in the tournament and only tied once. Poland burst out in the first period and scored 3 goals before twenty minutes had ended. They scored two more goals and Japan seemed out of it. The final score was 5-1 for Poland. The team's final record was 2-3-0 and received 4 points in the standings. By the early 1980s, though, the Polish economy went into the tail spin and the money for the hockey programs vanished. Despite this Poland has managed to produce some NHL caliber talent including Mariusz Czerkawski with the New York Islanders, Peter Sidorkiewicz for both the Hartford Whalers and the Ottawa Senators, and Krzysztof Oliwa for the New Jersey Devils where he won a Stanley Cup in 1999-2000.

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