The Poland national ice hockey team had a bad start to the 2016 Mens World Ice Hockey Championship Division 1 Group A as they suffered defeats to Italy and South Korea.

The Poland national team together with six players who won the league championship together with Comarch Cracovia last season - Maciej Kruczek, Patryk Wajda, Maciej Urbanowicz, Rafał Radziszewski, Krystian Dziubiński and Grzegorz Pasiut - are competing in the 2016 Mens World Ice Hockey Championship Division 1 Group A.

In the first game our team lost to Italy...

Poland - Italy 1:3 (0:1,1:1,0:1)

12:25 Joachim Ramoser (Markus Gander) 0:1

30:13 Tomasz Malasiński (Paweł Dronia, Krzysztof Zapała) 1:1

36:19 Luca Frigo (Diego Kostner, Simon Kostner) 1:2

59:58 Tomas Larkin 1:3

... while the next day fell to defeat against South Korea.

Poland - South Korea 1:3 (0:0,0:2,1:2)

24:04 Michael Swift (Shin) - (0:1)

48:51 Grzegorz Pasiut - (1:2)

50:13 Michael Swift (Lee. Cho) - (1:3)

58:45 Kim Sangwook(Kisung) - (1:4)

2016 IIHF World Championship Division I Group A upcoming fixtures:

Tuesday, 26 April

13:00 South Korea - Japan

16:30 Austria - Italy

20:00 POLAND - Slovenia

Wednesday, 27 April

13:00 Japan - Italy

16:30 Slovenia - South Korea

20:00 POLAND - Austria

Friday, 29 April

13:00 Italy -  South Korea

16:30 Austria - Slovenia

20:00 POLAND - Japan