NHL star Tim Stützle approaching, competitive victory at the start: The German national ice hockey team started the World Cup in Sweden and Denmark without its best striker.
Harold Kreis clapped satisfied with his assistants, the players around double goal scorer Dominik Kahun celebrated with the fans who traveled with them. Even without NHL star Tim Stützle, the German national ice hockey team started with a competitive victory in the World Cup in Sweden and Denmark.
The team around national coach district defeated Hungary 6: 1 (2: 0, 2: 0, 2: 1) and thus confidently released the first task on the way to the quarter -finals.
Switzerland-legionnaire Kahun (10th, 60th), the Straubinger World Cup debutant Joshua Samanski (16th), the Mannheimer Lukas Kälble (35th), Berliner Frederik Tiffels (40th) and the Düsseldorf Alexander Ehl (46th) scored the gates for the selection of German Ice Hockey Association (Deb), which celebrated the seventh victory with the outsider in the eighth World Cup duel. Two years ago, she swept off the ice on the way to the Tampere Hungarian World Cup final.
“It was an important game for us and a good start,” said Kreis at “Magenta Sport”. That was also Captain Moritz Seider. “We can be satisfied with the start,” said the star defender at ProSieben: “It was very confident. You can talk about little things, especially at the start. We won clearly, that was very well deserved.”
NHL star Sützle is allowed to go to the ice hockey World Cup
Already on Sunday (4:20 p.m./ProSieben and Magentasport) Kazakhstan is the second opponent. The Kazakhs won 2-1 against Norway at the start.
20 hours before the first bully, after waiting, there had been green light from Canada. Sützle received the release for the World Cup from the Ottawa Senators, the 23-year-old is scheduled to arrive in Herning on Sunday and train for the first time on Monday morning with the selection of DEB.
“It was a test of patience for us. We would have liked to solve it a little, but that didn’t work,” said Deb sports director Christian Künast in Magentasport.
For the striker, who was slightly struck after the play-off, it is the second World Cup, in 2022 he had had to leave early due to a knee injury, last year his club made a veto because of a shoulder injury.
In the goal, the NHL-Goalie Philipp Grubauer gave the first assignment, in the second game 24 hours later Mathias Niederberger is expected to be between the posts. The national coach had emphasized that he had “two number one goalkeepers”. The Berlin World Cup debutant Eric Mik and his club colleague Manuel again and the third goalkeeper Arno Tiefensee were not yet registered.
DEB team initially lacks precision
Despite two earlier overpayment situations, the DEB selection came into play, the precision in the passing game was missing – not least because of the poor ice quality. It helped at the leadership gate, when the puck ended up unintentionally with Justin Schütz, who served Kahun.
After that, things went much better: Samanski used the exact pass from Lukas Reichel to 2-0. “A very solid third,” said Kahun at ProSieben, “at the beginning there were a few nervous bad passes.”
In the middle section, Grubauer got more work because the careless mistakes were taken into account. Then Yasin Ehliz met in the power play, but the referees decidedly followed by video evidence on goalkeeper disability (27th). Calple after a counterattack and tiffels after the most beautiful combination of the game caused clear conditions. EHL and Kahun scored more goals in the final third.