The German national ice hockey team missed out on winning their group at the World Cup in Finland, but celebrated the best preliminary round result in their history. That’s premature for them knockout-round qualified team of national coach Toni Söderholm lost to the eternal rival Switzerland in the last preliminary round match with 3:4 (2:1, 0:2, 1:0). penalty-Shoot. As a result, Germany, as second in the round of eight, meets the twelve-time world champion Czech Republic or Olympic champion Finland.
Kai Wissmann (12th), Stefan Loibl (16th) and Matthias Plachta (48th) scored the goals for the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB), which had previously won five times in a row for the first time in history. Andres Ambühl (2nd), Pius Suter (22nd) and Denis Malgin (39th) scored for Switzerland, Damian Riat made the decision in the penalty shootout.