After Slovenia defeated Austria Poland national team lost their chance to earn qualification to the top division championship. However, in the last game of the 2016 IIHF World Championship Division I Group A l our side gave their best, gained victory against Japan and finished the tournament in third place. The players who last March were the Polish champions with Comarch Cracovia won 6 points yesterday.

Poland - Japan  10:4 (6:1, 1:1, 3:2)

0:50 Patryk Wronka (Bartłomiej Bychawski, Krzysztof Zapała) - 1:0

3:58 Aron Chmielewski (Grzegorz Pasiut, Mikołaj Łopuski) - 2:0

6:42 Tomasz Malasiński (Krzysztof Zapała, Maciej Kruczek) - 3:0

10:35 Maciej Kruczek (Marcin Kolusz, Krystian Dziubiński) - 4:0

12:27 Grzegorz Pasiut - 5:0

17:52 Krystian Dziubiński (Marcin Kolusz, Maciej Urbanowicz) - 6:0

19:56 Ueno Hiroki (Seiji Takahashi, Takafumi Yakashita) - 6:1

23:15 Adam Bagiński (Michał Kotlorz, Bartłomiej Bychawski) - 7:1

25:47 Kawai Takuma (Yosuke Haga, Shinya Yandori) - 7:2

41:39 Daisuke Obara (Hiromichi Terao) - 7:3

44:00 Aron Chmielewski (Paweł Dronia, Maciej Kruczek) - 8:3

44:46 Masahito Nishiwaki (Seiji Takahashi, Go Tanaka) - 8:4

55:34 Paweł Dronia (Krzysztof Zapała) - 9:4

59:48 Patryk Wajda (Adam Borzęcki, Patryk Wronka) - 10:4