Captain Moritz Müller is ambitious in the Ice Hockey World Championships, but does not want to communicate the goals so boldly as a lesson from the disappointment at the Winter Games.
“I think we may have learned a bit from the Olympic Games when it comes to this offensive expression of expectations,” said the Kölner Haie defender a week before the start of the World Cup in Finland.
But the 35-year-old also said: “I think we should come back brave and with big goals. We have a good team and want to have a say again.”
Before the Olympic Games in Beijing, the German national team even spoke of gold ambitions, but then missed the quarter-finals.
The tournament was the first setback under national coach Toni Söderholm after Germany had surprised by reaching the semi-finals at the 2021 World Cup in Riga.
“We have developed very well with the national team in recent years with many good results,” said Müller on the sidelines of the World Cup training camp in Villingen-Schwenningen. “The Olympic Games weren’t one of them. I think it’s wrong to question everything now.”