CIS national ice hockey team

Commonwealth of Independent States
Shirt badge/Association crest
Most gamesAndrei Khomutov (13)
Most pointsAndrei Khomutov (17)
IIHF codeCIS
First international
Austria  2–7  CIS
(Feldkirch, Austria; 19 January 1992)
Last international
Unified Team 3–1  Canada
(Méribel, France; 23 February 1992)
Biggest win
France  0–8 Unified Team
(Méribel, France; 14 February 1992)
Biggest defeat
Switzerland  3–0  CIS
(Rapperswil, Switzerland; 4 February 1992)
Olympics
Appearances1 (first in 1992)
Medals Gold (1992)
International record (W–L–T)
11–2–0

The CIS national ice hockey team was an ephemeral national ice hockey team that represented the Commonwealth of Independent States.[1] Essentially the former Soviet team under a different name, the CIS team existed in the few months between the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the formation of new ice hockey federations for the former Soviet states, now independent countries. Most notably, the team competed at the 1992 Winter Olympics as part of the Unified Team, winning the gold medal. However, the International Ice Hockey Federation would later attribute this gold medal to Russia as the successor state.[2][3] The International Olympic Committee does not attribute that medal to Russia.[4] After the Olympics, the CIS team ceased to exist and was replaced by the Russian team. In the 13 games the CIS played, they won 11 and lost 2.

  1. ^ "Commonwealth of Independent States". National Teams of Ice Hockey. Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2013-06-16.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Story 59 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ IIHF. "OLYMPIC ICE HOCKEY TOURNAMENTS, MEN". IIHF.com. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  4. ^ IOC (2018). "ICE HOCKEY MEN". olympic.org. Retrieved 2018-03-10.