With NHL star Tim Stützle, the German national ice hockey team continued their winning streak at the start of the World Cup-also on a brittle ice.
Tim Stützle conjured up, took every shot, hung up and did not avoid hard checks: In his first game for the German national ice hockey team at the World Cup, the NHL star directly took responsibility.
The follow -up world -class striker led the team of national coach Harold Kreis with two templates to 5: 2 (2: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1) in the third preliminary round against hard -acting Norwegians. Supports and the like could not be stopped by a large hole in the ice and a early third break.
The Munich Yasin Ehliz (5th), the Mannheim Marc Michaelis (17th), the Ingolstadt Wojciech Stachowiak (25th), the Straubinger Joshua Samanski (27th) and the Berliner Frederik Tiffels (60th) scored the goals for the German team in Herning, which most recently with three with three Siegen had started – and then stormed into the semi -finals. Andreas Martinsen (20th) and Jacob Berglund (48th) met for the world ranking twelfth.
Ice hockey World Cup: Tim Stützle has “fun” – and struggles
“It was fun,” said Stützle at “Magenta Sport”, but added self -critically: “I had a lot of chances, could have scored a few goals. But the team played heavily.”
Kreis was also satisfied with the team performance. “The boys mastered it very well. It was a good start,” said the national coach. However, in the second third Lukas Reichel had to be injured into the cabin and the hospital.
With the maximum yield of nine points, the selection of the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB) as league leaders to the World Cup classic on Thursday (4:20 p.m./Pro7 and Magenta Sport) against arch-rival Switzerland.
“I think we haven’t played our best ice hockey yet. We have to show that now,” said Marc Michaelis. The duel with the Vice World Champion is the prelude to the tricky tasks in the preliminary round: the USA and defending champion Czech Republic are waiting as an opponent.
Stützle, who arrived in Denmark on Sunday after the Play-Off-Out with the Ottawa Senators on Sunday, helped with the passport for the early 1-0. The 23-year-old also set an example in terms of hardness and rammed his opponent into the gang. The Viersener also prepared the final score.
Hole in the ice causes an interruption
3:27 minutes before the end of the first third broke a large piece of the ice on the gang, the referees sent both teams into the cabins prematurely. It was not the first hole in the ice in the Jyske Bank boxing, the players had complained about the poor quality of the underground several times. “I’ve never seen anything like that,” said Stützle at “Pro7”, “I hope we have good ice masters.”
Leo Pföderl had to make room for Stützle. The Berliner had completely empty in the first two preliminary round games. “We have seven games in ten days. That’s why we decided to give him a break,” said Kreis.
The Berlin defender Eric Mik came to his World Cup debut, his club colleague Jonas Müller celebrated anniversary: the 2018 Olympic second and vice world champion from 2023 wore the DEB jersey for the 100th time. In the goal, NHL goalie Philipp Grubauer again received the preference in front of the Munich Mathias Niederberger.
Supports initiated the first goal: first he failed to goalkeeper Jonas Arntzen, then he put across Ehliz. When Samanski was sitting on the penalty bench, Michaelis increased to 2-0 after Ehliz-Pass.
After the connection goal, Stachowiak pressed the puck between the post and the goalkeeper. Samanski used a clever pass from Reichel to 4: 1. In the final third, supporters missed his hit with a fine individual campaign.