Turkey national men's ice hockey team

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Team Jersey
Association
Turkish Ice Hockey Federation
Current coach
James MacEachern, 2008-
Most Games
Serkan Yapıcılar: 24
Most Points
Cengiz Çıplak: 25
First Game
Estonia 24 - 0 Turkey

(Cape Town, South Africa; March 31, 2002)
Largest win
Turkey 11 - 1 Armenia

(Reykjavík, Iceland; March 21, 2004)
Largest defeat
Croatia 34 - 1 Turkey

(Zagreb, Croatia; November 20, 1993)
IIHF World Ranking
41th
World Championships

The Turkish national ice hockey team is the national ice hockey team of Turkey, and is controlled by the Turkish Ice Hockey Federation (Turkish: Türkiye Buz Hokeyi Federasyonu, TBHF), a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation. It is currently ranked 41th in the IIHF's 2008 world final ranking list.

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[edit] History

Turkey debuted in 2002 at the World Championships ranking last (6th) in the Division II Group A played in Cape Town, South Africa between March 31 and April 6.

The national team placed last (3rd) place at the next championships in Division III in Auckland, New Zealand April 3-6, 2003.

Turkey finished in 2nd place in the 2004 Division III World Championships held March 16-21 in Reykjavík, Iceland, thereby earning promotion to Division II for 2005 championships.

However, a last place in Division II Group A played April 10-16, 2005 in Zagreb, Croatia relegated them back to Division III in 2006.

Turkey's national team was again promoted to Division II after finishing 2nd in the Division III Group A at the 2006 World Ice Hockey Championships held April 24-29 in Reykjavík, Iceland.

Turkey competed in the Division II Group A at the 2007 World Ice Hockey Championships tournament held in Zagreb, Croatia from April 11 through April 17, 2007, where they once again finished last to be demoted back to division III.

The national team placed 4th at the 2008 IIHF World Championship - Division III held from March 31-April 4, 2008 in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg.

The national team's head coach is James MacEachern from Canada. His assistant is Tarık Göçmen.[1]

Milestone games
  • Largest defeat: March 31, 2002: Cape Town, South Africa. Flag of Estonia Estonia 24-0 Flag of Turkey Turkey

[edit] 2008 World Championship roster

Team members selected to take part at the 2008 IIHF Division III World Championship.[1]

# Player Club
Goaltenders
1 Levent Özbaydoğan Flag of Turkey Polis Akademisi
25 Barış Uçele Flag of Turkey Ankara B.B.
Defencemen
5 Galip Hamarat Flag of Turkey Polis Akademisi
12 Deniz İnce Flag of Turkey İstanbul Paten
16 Gürkan Çetinkaya Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
20 Cihan Kahraman Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
22 Cengiz Akyıldız Flag of Turkey İstanbul Paten
23 Melih Öztürk Flag of Turkey Polis Akademisi
Forwards
4 Oktay Yavuzarslan Flag of Turkey Başkent Yıldızları
6 Onur Eroğlu Flag of Turkey Polis Akademisi
7 Yavuz Karakoç Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
8 Mustafa Yapıcılar Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
9 Yücel Çıtak Flag of Turkey Ankara B.B.
11 Ufuk Güçlü Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
14 Caner Baykan Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
15 Emrah Özmen Flag of Turkey Polis Akademisi
17 Çağrı Karabulut Flag of Turkey Ankara TED
18 Erdoğan Coşkun Flag of Turkey Kocaeli B.B.
19 Egemen Taşboğa Flag of Turkey Polis Akademisi
21 Alper Solak Flag of Turkey Başkent Yıldızları

[edit] Notable Players

Cengiz Çıplak (25) is, without doubt, the best Turkish player ever. He was awarded the MVP crown as best forward in Division II Group A at the 2007 World Ice Hockey Championships although skating for the team that relegated. He received the same trophy at World Championship 2004. At the World Championship Division 3 in Iceland he was the torunaments topscorer. Çıplak learned his hockey in Edmonton and played in lower North American leagues, such as in the QMJHL as junior[2]. Within the 16 years of history of Turkish national ice hockey team, 25 goals in 18 games of Cengiz Çıplak makes him the highest goalscorer of all times[3]. Also he holds the record for the highest scorer in one game which he scored five goals in the game between Luxembourg and Turkey[2].

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b IIHF World Championship Div III, Men - Entry List by Team Turkey as of 28.03.2008.
  2. ^ a b Travnicek, Michal ((2008-03-31). Hockey on the Rise. Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation. Retrieved on 2008-05-20.
  3. ^ Cengiz Ciplak Player Profile. European Hockey.Net. Retrieved on 2008-06-03.

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