World Cup 2018: DEB-Selection plays in Herning

World Cup 2018: DEB-Selection plays in Herning – Germany is now eighth in the world rankings

After the World Cup is before the World Cup: At the IIHF 2018 Ice Hockey World Championship in Denmark, the team of the German Ice Hockey Federation eV (DEB) compete in Group B. This happened in Herning DEBThe team will then have to face World Cup runner-up Canada, hosts Denmark, Finland, the USA, Norway, Latvia and newcomer South Korea in the preliminary round.

The games will be played in the “Jyske Bank Boxen”, which has a capacity of 11.000 spectators. Group A, which plays in Copenhagen, includes defending champions Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Belarus, Slovakia, France and newly promoted Austria.

“With the top teams from North America, plus hosts Denmark and Norway, we have a very demanding group. Especially since the Scandinavians have a very large one Fancommunity can count on for support,” said DEB- President Franz Reindl: “It is also important to take into account newly promoted South Korea, which has had an enormous development with the Olympic Games behind it.”

The 50.000-inhabitant city of Herning, around 300 kilometers northwest of Copenhagen, is, alongside the Danish capital, the venue for the IIHF 2018 Ice Hockey World Championship. Anyone interested can now find out more about the tournament, which will take place from May 2018th to 4th, 20, and ticket sales via the website 2018.iihfworlds.com. We recommend this for hotel bookings DEB- Partner HRS:
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The groups were divided based on the current world rankings in which the DEBteam (2.660 points) improved by two places to eighth place after its respectable performance at the home World Cup. The German team overtook Belarus and Slovakia, defended its narrow lead over Norway (2.535 points) and was able to slightly shorten the gap to seventh-placed Switzerland (2.705).
Despite the defeat in the final, Canada (3.225 points) remains in first place ahead of Russia (3.105 points). World champions Sweden (3.080 points) moved up to third place.