The NHL stars Draisaitl and Rieder storm with Patrick Reimer / SPORT1 broadcasts live from Oberhausen
Only three more: With the first of two comparisons with Belarus in Oberhausen (today, 20 p.m., live on SPORT1) as part of the Euro Hockey Challenge, the national ice hockey team's preparation for the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship is slowly entering the home stretch . Tomorrow, Saturday, April 30.4th. (19.30 p.m., live on SPORT1) there will be a second meeting. Before the plane finally takes off for St. Petersburg for the German selection, the World Cup dress rehearsal in Switzerland (May 3rd, 19.45:1 p.m., live on SPORTXNUMX) in Basel is on the agenda next week.
National coach Marco Sturm currently has 31 players on board and will use the next two games to determine his final squad. “I already have most of it in my head, but there are still a few positions that are still open,” said the 37-year-old before the two games against “Team Belarus”. Sturm will announce the World Cup squad by Sunday at the latest: “The squad that will be playing at the World Cup dress rehearsal in Switzerland will also be there in Russia.”
The players therefore have two more opportunities to impose themselves on the national coach. Therefore, Sturm will rotate as announced. Compared to the last two games in Latvia, the national coach has restructured his squad in several positions. Today finalists Daryl Boyle and Dominik Kahun move on from champions EHC Red Bull München In the squad, Felix Brückmann (Grizzlys Wolfsburg) stand between the posts. His teammate Gerrit Fauser strengthens the offensive.
All eyes should be on the German top row today. NHL stars Leon Draisaitl (Edmonton Oilers) and Tobias Rieder (Arizona Coyotes) storm together with DEL Player of the Year Patrick Reimer (Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers). “I’m looking forward to the Germans Fans and the return to Oberhausen,” Draisaitl emphasized several times this week. Father Peter worked in Oberhausen as a player and later as a coach. “I was still a little kid back then, but I was allowed to go on the ice every now and then after training,” laughed the 20-year-old superstar.
This is how they want to play: Brückmann (Niederberger) – Brandt, Boyle; Rieder, Draisaitl, Reimer – Brückner, Kohl; Krämmer, Danner, Kink – Akdag, Ankert; Ullmann, Fauser, Flaake – Goc; Noebels, Kahun, Pföderl.
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