Ice hockey national coach Harold Kreis has to do without two other runners-up world champions at the Germany Cup at short notice. Defender Leon Hüttl (ERC Ingolstadt) and striker Samuel Soramies (Augsburger Panther) canceled their participation in the four-country tournament in Landshut due to injury, as did attackers Dominik Bokk (Löwen Frankfurt) and Danjo Leonhardt (Nuremberg Ice Tigers).
Kreis nominated two more debutants, Josef Eham and Luis Üffing from Düsseldorf. Tim Brunnhuber (Straubing Tigers) and Filip Varejcka (EHC Red Bull Munich) were also included in the squad.
This means that there are only two silver medalists from Tampere left in the squad for the home tournament, which begins on Thursday (7:45 p.m./MagentaSport) against Denmark: the strikers Alexander Ehl (Düsseldorfer EG) and Manuel Wiederer (Eisbären Berlin). Six players, however, are with the national team for the first time. The other opponents are Austria and Slovakia.
Women’s national coach Jeff MacLeod also has to reschedule: Her Mannheim teammate Jennifer Miller is in the squad for Lisa Heinz. For the first time, the women’s national team will also be playing its home tournament in the same hall. The eighth place in the World Cup will face Denmark at the start on Wednesday (7:35 p.m./MagentaSport), then Finland and the Czech Republic.
The squads of the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB)
Men:
Goal: Florian Bugl (Straubing Tigers), Leon Hungerecker (Nuremberg Ice Tigers), Arno Tiefensee (Adler Mannheim)
Defense: Nicolas Appendino, Lukas Kälble (both Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven), Maximilian Daubner (Red Bull Munich), Tobias Fohrler (HC Ambri Piotta/Switzerland), Mick Köhler (Augsburger Panther), Jannik Möser (Grizzlys Wolfsburg), Colin Ugbekile (Iserlohn Roosters) , Mario Zimmermann (Straubing Tigers)
Storm: Tobias Eder, Leo Pföderl, Manuel Wiederer (all Eisbären Berlin), Alexander Ehl, Bennet Roßmy, Josef Eham, Luis Üffing (all Düsseldorfer EG), Yasin Ehliz, Filip Varejcka (both Red Bull Munich), Maximilian Eisenmenger (Adler Mannheim), Maximilian Kammerer (Kölner Haie), Philipp Krauß (ERC Ingolstadt), Marc Michaelis (EV Zug/Switzerland), Daniel Pfaffengut (Schwenninger Wild Wings), Tobias Rieder (Växjö Lakers/Sweden), Joshua Samanski, Tim Brunnhuber (both Straubing Tigers) , Luis Schinko (Grizzlys Wolfsburg)
Women:
Goal: Sandra Abstreiter (ECDC Memmingen), Chiara Schultes (EV Regensburg)
Defense: Tabea Botthof, Tara Schmitz (both Mad Dogs Mannheim), Lena Düsterhoft (ERC Ingolstadt), Daria Gleißner, Ronja Hark, Charlott Schaffrath, Carina Strobel (all ECDC Memmingen), Heidi Strompf (Sarisanka Presov/Slovakia)
Storm: Hanna Amort, Jennifer Miller, Lola Liang, Yvette Reichelt, Lucia Schmitz (all Mad Dogs Mannheim), Nicola Eisenschmid, Katharina Häckelsmiller, Laura Kluge, Jule Schiefer (all ECDC Memmingen), Franziska Feldmeier (Linköping KC/Sweden), Bernadette Karpf, Lucy Klein, Emily Nix, Theresa Wagner (all ERC Ingolstadt)