Edmonton Oilers striker in the squad from Tuesday / Sturm wants to decide on deployment at short notice / More silver heroes expected / Dennis Seidenberg there from Phase IV / Greiss, Pföderl and Kink cancelled
The German national ice hockey team is getting prominent reinforcements: NHL star Leon Draisaitl joins the squad of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund eV just in time for the third World Cup preparation phase (DEB), which will take place from Tuesday in Berlin on the two games as part of the Euro Hockey Challenge against France in Wolfsburg (April 19.4, 19.15:XNUMX p.m.) and Berlin (April 21.4, 17.45:1 p.m.; both games live on SPORTXNUMX). Defenseman Dennis Seidenberg (most recently New York Islanders/NHL) will join the team for the first time the following week.
“We are very pleased to be able to welcome Leon to our ranks at this early stage. With his qualities he can take any team to an even higher level,” said national coach Marco Sturm, who clarified the final organizational details with the 22-year-old exceptional German player in a personal conversation on Sunday evening. The extent to which Sturm is already planning to use Draisaitl will be decided at short notice. “We first have to see what condition he is in.”
Draisaitl himself is looking forward to returning to the national team, with whom he reached the quarter-finals at the last home World Cup in Cologne in 2017. “I have always said that I will play for my country immediately if I have the opportunity. Being with the national team is always something special. “I’m particularly proud to now be on the team of the Olympic silver medalist,” said the Cologne native, who will meet Dennis Seidenberg, a teammate from the successful home World Championships, next week.
Other silver heroes will also be available again from Tuesday DEB-Selection bump: With the defenders Moritz Müller (Kölner Haie) and Sinan Akdag (Adler Mannheim) as well as the strikers Yasin Ehliz (Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers) and Matthias Plachta (Adler Mannheim) Sturm welcomes a quartet of the Olympic Games. Goalkeeper Niklas Treutle and his Nuremberg teammate Oliver Mebus are new additions. Striker Markus Eisenschmid (Laval Rocket/AHL) will also be coming from North America Berlin expected.
Keeper Thomas Greiss (New York Islanders) will definitely not be able to take part in the upcoming World Cup. The goalkeeper had to miss the upcoming tournament in Denmark due to an injury, as did silver medalist Marcus Kink (Adler Mannheim) and Leo Pföderl (Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers).
Five players will no longer be there next week: goalkeeper Dustin Strahlmeier, defenders Simon Sezemsky and Tim Bender and strikers Daniel Schmölz and Thomas Holzmann. “The guys really worked hard in Phases I and II. However, due to the new personal details, I had to make a cut. Unfortunately, that’s also part of being a trainer. But I will continue to monitor them,” said Sturm.
The squad:
| Pos | NAME | FIRST GIVEN NAME | birth. | Stick | H | W | Team |
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goalkeeper |
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| T | TREUTLE | Niklas | 29.04.91 | L | 1,87 | 84 | Nürnberg Ice Tigers |
| T | Niederberger | Mathias | 26.11.92 | L | 1,8 | 80 | Düsseldorfer EG |
| T | PIELMEIER | Timo | 07.07.89 | L | 1,83 | 82 | ERC Ingolstadt |
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Verteidiger |
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| V | BRÜCKNER | Benedict | 01.01.90 | L | 1,85 | 90 | Wild Wings Schwenningen |
| V | TEAR | Pascal | 22.11.92 | L | 1,96 | 100 | Kölner Haie |
| V | AKDAG | Sinan | 05.11.89 | L | 1,88 | 89 | Adler Mannheim |
| V | NOWAK | Marco | 23.07.90 | R | 1,88 | 93 | Düsseldorfer EG |
| V | MULLER | Moritz | 19.11.86 | L | 1,87 | 92 | Kölner Haie |
| V | WAGNER | Fabio | 17.09.95 | L | 1,83 | 85 | ERC Ingolstadt |
| V | KRUPP | Bjorn | 06.03.91 | L | 1,91 | 95 | Grizzlys Wolfsburg |
| V | MEBUS | Oliver | 30.03.93 | L | 2,06 | 109 | Nürnberg Ice Tigers |
| V | EBNER | Bernhard | 12.09.90 | L | 1,88 | 91 | Düsseldorfer EG |
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striker |
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| S | DRAISAITL | Leon | 27.10.95 | L | 1,89 | 98 | Edmonton Oilers |
| S | LOIBL | Stefan | 24.06.96 | L | 1,86 | 78 | Straubing Tigers |
| S | EHLIZ | Age | 30.12.92 | L | 1,77 | 83 | Nürnberg Ice Tigers |
| S | KRÄMER | Nicolas | 23.10.92 | L | 1,86 | 94 | Kölner Haie |
| S | MULLER | Marcel | 10.07.88 | L | 1,93 | 98 | Krefeld Pinguine |
| S | UVIRA | Sebastian | 26.01.93 | L | 1,88 | 95 | Kölner Haie |
| S | PLACHTA | Matthias | 16.05.91 | L | 1,86 | 100 | Adler Mannheim |
| S | CAMMER | Maximilian | 28.09.96 | L | 1,85 | 77 | Düsseldorfer EG |
| S | HÖFFLIN | Mirko | 18.06.92 | L | 1,83 | 80 | Wild Wings Schwenningen |
| S | DANGER | Simon | 25.12.86 | R | 1,82 | 82 | Wild Wings Schwenningen |
| S | MICHAELIS | Marc | 31.07.95 | L | 1,77 | 79 | Minnesota State University |
| S | HARBOR JUDGE | Jaroslav | 22.01.90 | R | 1,82 | 91 | Augsburger Panther |
| S | PIETTA | Daniel | 09.12.86 | L | 1,84 | 94 | Krefeld Pinguine |
| S | TIFFELS | Frederik | 20.05.95 | L | 184 | 91 | Western Michigan Broncos |
| S | IRONSCHMID | Markus | 22.01.95 | R | 1,83 | 82 | Laval Rocket |