NHL professional Tim Stützle on a hint, compulsory victory at the start: The German national ice hockey team started the World Cup in Sweden and Denmark without its best striker. The team of national coach Harold Kreis defeated Hungary 6: 1 (2: 0, 2: 0, 2: 1) and thus confidently solved the first task on the way to the quarter -finals.
Switzerland-legionnaire Dominik Kahun (10th, 60th), the Straubinger World Cup debutant Joshua Samanski (16th), the Mannheimer Lukas Kälble (35th), the Berliner Frederik Tiffels (40th) and the Düsseldorf Alexander Ehl (46th) scored the gates in front of 6184 in the Jysque Bank in the Jysque Bank The DEB team, which celebrated the seventh victory in the eighth World Cup duel with the outsider. Two years ago, she swept off the ice on the way to the Tampere Hungarian World Cup final. Already on Sunday (4.20 p.m./ProSieben and Magentasport) Kazakhstan is the second opponent. The Kazakhs won 2-1 against Norway at the start.
20 hours before the first bully there had been the green light from Canada after waiting for days: Stützle received the release for the World Cup from the Ottawa Senators, the 23-year-old should arrive in Herning on Sunday and train for the first time on Monday morning with the selection of DEB. “It was a test of patience for us. We would have liked to have solved it a little, but that didn’t work,” said Deb sports director Christian Künast in Magentasport. For the striker, who was slightly struck after the play-off, it is the second World Cup, in 2022 he had had to leave early due to a knee injury, last year his club made a veto because of a shoulder injury.
“In the beginning there were a few nervous bad passes”
In the goal, the NHL-Goalie Philipp Grubauer gave the first assignment, in the second game 24 hours later Mathias Niederberger is expected to be between the posts. The national coach had emphasized that he had “two number one goalkeepers”. The Berlin World Cup debutant Eric Mik and his club colleague Manuel again and the third goalkeeper Arno Tiefensee were not yet registered.
Despite two earlier overpayment situations, the DEB selection came into play, not least because of the poor ice quality. It helped at the leadership gate, when the puck ended up unintentionally with Justin Schütz, who served Kahun. After that, things went much better: Samanski used the exact pass from Lukas Reichel to 2-0. “A very solid third,” said Kahun at ProSieben, “in the beginning there were a few nervous bad passes.”
In the middle section, Grubauer got more work because the careless mistakes were taken into account. Then Yasin Ehliz met in the power play, but the referees decidedly followed by video evidence on goalkeeper disability (27th). Calple after a counterattack and tiffels after the most beautiful combination of the game caused clear conditions. EHL and Kahun scored more goals in the final third.
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