The Red Machine
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| Nickname(s) |
(The Red Machine) |
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| Most games | Alexander Maltsev (321) |
| Top scorer | Alexander Maltsev (213) |
| Most points | Sergei Makarov (248) |
| First international | |
 Soviet Union 23 – 2  East Germany(East Berlin, East Germany; 22 April 1951) |
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| Biggest win | |
Soviet Union 28 – 2  Italy(Colorado Springs, United States; 26 December 1967) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 Canada 8 – 2 Soviet UnionOttawa, Canada; 9 January 1986)  Czechoslovakia 9 – 3 Soviet Union(Prague, Czechoslovakia; 21 March 1975) |
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| IIHF World Championships | |
| Appearances | 32 (first in 1954) |
| Best result | 1st (1954, 1956, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1986, 1989, 1990) |
| Canada Cup | |
| Appearances | 5 |
| Best result | 1st (1981) |
| Olympics | |
| Appearances | 9 (first in 1956) |
| Medals |
Gold: 7 (1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1984, 1988) Silver: 1 (1980) Bronze: 1 (1960) |
| International record (W–L–T) | |
| 738–110–65 | |
| Olympic medal record | ||
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1956 | Ice hockey |
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1960 | Ice hockey |
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1964 | Ice hockey |
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1968 | Ice hockey |
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1972 | Ice hockey |
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1976 | Ice hockey |
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1980 | Ice hockey |
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1984 | Ice hockey |
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1988 | Ice hockey |
The Soviet national ice hockey team (Russian: Сборная СССР по хоккею с шайбой) was the national ice hockey team of the Soviet Union. The team won nearly every world championship and Olympic tournament between 1954 and 1991 and never failed to medal in any International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) tournament they competed in.
After 1991, the Soviet team competed as the Unified Team at the 1992 Winter Olympics and as the Commonwealth of Independent States at the 1992 World Championship. In 1993, it was replaced by national teams for Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia and Ukraine. The IIHF recognized the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia as the successor to the Soviet Union hockey federation and passed its ranking on to Russia. The other national hockey teams were considered new and sent to compete in Pool C.
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