Only Brooks Macek was able to get on the scoresheet in the 1:5 defeat / Slovakia awaits on Tuesday
The German national ice hockey team failed to win a point in its second game at the 2016 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in St. Petersburg/Russia on Sunday. One day after the opening game against France, the selection of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund lost (DEB) against fourth place in the world rankings and co-favorites Finland with 1:5 (0:2, 1:2, 0:1).
National coach Marco Sturm had not only licensed Dominik Kahun and Gerrit Fauser in the morning, but had also called up the duo in a row with Marcel Goc. Both Fauser and Kahun were celebrating their World Cup debut. Jerome Flaake and Marcel Noebels were left to the spectator role this time. Torsten Ankert moved into the team in defense. Timo Pielmeier started between the posts, as he had the day before against France.
Most of the audience in the atmospheric Yubileiny Arena was draped in blue and white. Carried by your own Fans The Finns found their way into the game better. The Suomi team took advantage of two numerical superiority situations to take a 2-0 lead after 20 minutes. Patrik Laine and Leo Komarov gave Pielmeier no chance. Shortly before the first break, Christian Ehrhoff and Philip Gogulla narrowly missed for the Germans.
In the second period, the German selection became more courageous and had a good opportunity to score again thanks to Marcel Goc's deflected shot, but instead Sebastian Aho made it 3-0 for the Finns with a slap shot after a counterattack. A quick attack by the two-time world champion later meant 0:4 (goal scorer: Jarno Koskiranta) from the national team's perspective.
Shortly before the second siren, Brooks Macek scored his first goal in the second World Cup game: Kahun passed the ball to Leon Draisaitl, who served Macek perfectly. The New Munich player scored with a direct shot in the power play.
In the final period, Marco Sturm's team tried everything again - especially in further power play situations - to change the result, but found few ways to do so against the compact Finns. Laine sealed the 1:5 final score from the German perspective with his second goal of the evening three seconds before the end of the game.
Following tomorrow's training, Sturm gave his team time off until the evening. Slovakia awaits as opponents on Tuesday (15.15:1 p.m., live on SPORTXNUMX).
National coach Marco Sturm: "All in all, Finland was the better team today and deserved to win. We didn't have a good start. Neither our heads nor our legs were really there in the first ten or 15 minutes. The Finns obviously took advantage of that. If we want to keep up with such big nations, then we have to do better in situations like that. The game against Slovakia is an important one for us now. It's good that we have a day off to prepare."
Marcel Goc (captain/Adler Mannheim): "In the first third, we waited too long. We wanted to narrow the spaces, which we only managed to do with difficulty. You have to admit that the Finns really played a good power play. Timo Pielmeier can't do much when the cross pass gets through before the shot on goal. At times, our game was too complicated, we played through the middle instead of shooting the puck deep. If we play more simply, we get into the game better."
Germany: Pielmeier (Brückmann) – Ehrhoff, Holzer; Rieder, Draisaitl, Reimer; Ankert, Müller; Macek, Schütz, Gogulla; Boyle, Akdag; Kahun, Goc, Fauser; Braun, Reul; Seidenberg, Hager, Kink.
Gates: 0:1, Patrik Laine (6:22/PP1) 0:2 Leo Komarov (9:08/PP1), 0:3 Sebastian Aho (29:53), 0:4 Jarno Koskiranta (37:50), 1: 4 Brooks Macek (38:42/PP1), 1:5 Patrik Laine (59:57/PP1)
Penalty minutes: Germany 18 + 10 Holzer – Finland 12