Czech Ice Hockey Association

The union subsequently decided to send a representative team, whose players were later named hockey musketeers, to an international tournament in Chamonix, France.

Unlike football, the Hockey League has succeeded in defending membership of the LIHG on the national principle instead of the state throughout this critical period.

In the last month of 1923, the union split, when the Czechoslovak Association of Canadian Hockey (ČSAKH) separated from it under the leadership of Karel Hartmann of Sparta.

The calm of the situation did not contribute to the fact that in January of the following year a union championship was held, which was the first time to fight for the trophy cup donated by the president T. Masaryk.

The disputes also affected the nomination for the ice hockey tournament of the 1924 Winter Olympics, despite the fact that the Czechoslovak Sporting Village tried to prevent it.

Domestic championship decorated with gold medals has greatly helped the Union to promote ice hockey at the expense of the band in Slovakia, where it took place after some peripetials.

German clubs associated with Deutscher EisHockey Verband (DEHV) threatened international boycott from LIHG, but the situation has improved rapidly.

In January 1929, for example, a match was played between the teams of Prague and Opava, where the best hockey players of German origin were in the Czechoslovak territory.

At the 1929 European ice hockey championship, four Opava players went out with the Czechoslovak representation team, with another title largely deserving of key goals in two extensions in the decisive games Wolfgang Dorasil.

After a successful championship, the union also had the final promise of building a winter stadium with the first artificial ice in Czechoslovakia.

This was due to the organization of the World Championships and the involvement of Canadian ice hockey players, especially by Prague clubs.

The Czech Ice Hockey League faces long-standing criticism of the conditions of national team players, which are compared to modern slavery.