Germany is playing a strong group phase at this Ice Hockey World Championship. Now it was against Kazakhstan at the bottom. A win was a must, but harder than expected.
Germany got their fifth win in a row at the Ice Hockey World Championships in Finland. The DEB selection celebrated a narrow 5: 4 victory against the bottom of the group from Kazakhstan.
It went back and forth from the beginning and in the meantime it looked like a defeat for Germany. But the team of national coach Toni Söderholm kept their nerve and maintained their good position in Group A.
Jonas Müller (5th), Leo Pföderl (17th), Daniel Fischbuch (19th), Lukas Reichel (26th) and Yasin Ehliz (48th) scored the goals for selection of the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB). Roman Startschenko (3rd), Yegor Petukhov (16th), Pavel Akolsin (39th) and Nikita Mikhailis (41st) scored for the Kazakhs, who were still pointless, and on Monday (3:20 p.m.) against Italy (1 point). “Endspiel” for relegation is coming.
So far, Germany had only won five victories in the preliminary round in Kosice/Slovakia in 2019. In 2011 and 1933, the DEB selection had won the preliminary round in significantly smaller groups, but then there were other rounds of points that were never finished first.
In the last preliminary round game on Tuesday (from 11.20 a.m.) Germany would probably have to beat Switzerland by three goals to go first into the round of eight for the first time in World Cup history.