SARAJEVO, Yugoslavia -- Erich Kuenhackl broke a 3-3 tie with a 55-foot power play goal at 16:13 of the second period and Roy Roedger scored two third-period goals Thursday to lift West Germany to 8-5 victory over Poland in a Group A ice hockey match at the Winter Olympics.
The win was West Germany's second straight and set up a crucial match with Sweden Saturday.
The teams were tied 2-2 at the end of the first period, Ignaz Berndaner and Franz Reindl scoring for West Germany and Andrzej Zabawa and Jerzy Christ for Poland.
West Germany went ahead at 8:22 of the second period when Michael Betz scored on a power play from eight feet out, assisted by Kuehnackl and Uli Hiemer. The Poles came back to tie the score at 3-3 at 15:02 when Andrzey Nowak skated in from his point position during a power play and took a pass Stanislaw Klocek to beat West German goaltender Bernhard Englbrecht.
Kuehnackl broke the tie and Helmut Steiger scored unassisted on a 70-footer from center ice at 17:40 which went through the legs of Polish goalie Wlodzimierz Olszewski.
The Poles changed goalies with the start of the third period, inserting Garbiel Samolej, but Ernst Hoefner beat him at the 44-second mark on the first shot West Germany took.
Roedger scored off a face off at 11:22 and shorthanded at 16:34, with Poland getting goals from Jan Piecko and Wieslaw Jobczyk.
Englbrecht was the difference in the game stopping five Polish breakaways.
