In the new edition of the previous year’s final, the ice hockey World Cup in Sweden and Denmark world champion World Champion in the German preliminary round group B in Herning prevailed 5: 4 (1: 2, 2: 0, 1: 2, 1: 0) after extra time against Switzerland.
The DEB selection will meet Switzerland next Thursday (4:20 p.m./”Pro7″ and “Magenta Sport”) in their fourth game, four days later the Czech is the penultimate opponent in the preliminary round.
Swiss gamble 2-0 lead
Christian Marti (2nd minute) and Damien Riat (18th) put the Swiss 2-0 in the lead. But 19 seconds before the first third break, Matej Stransky shortened the passing of the NHL-Stars David Pastrnak for the world champion.
Filip Zadina (27th) and Filip Pyrochta (36th) turned the game in the middle section, Sandro Schmid (42.) and Sven Andrighetto (49.) struck for the Confederates. Lukas Sedlak (57.) forced overtime, in which Roman Cervenka (63.) made the decision.
In group A in Stockholm, Olympic champion Finland had unexpected problems against Austria at 2-1 (2: 1, 0: 0: 0). Patrik Pistola (5th) and Juuso Parssinen (8th) scored the goals for the Scandinavians, Bernd Wolf (14th) scored for the outsider.