Germany will face Austria on April 25th and April 27th
As part of the Euro Hockey Challenge 2019, the German national ice hockey team led by national coach Toni Söderholm will play against Austria in Regensburg and Deggendorf. The duel will take place on Thursday, April 25.04.2018th, 27.04.2018 in the Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena, and Saturday, April 1th, XNUMX it will continue in the Deggendorf ice stadium. SPORTXNUMX and Telekom Eishockey will broadcast the games live and exclusively.
In direct preparation for the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Slovakia, the national ice hockey team will first play against Slovakia in Kaufbeuren and Garmisch-Partenkirchen on April 11th and 13th, followed by the two away games in the Czech Republic. Shortly afterwards the games against Austria will take place.
The national team has already played four times at the traditional Regensburg venue, most recently in 2013 against the Czech Republic. In Deggendorf, the national team is returning to another prestigious ice hockey venue; the last international match took place here in 1996.
Tickets for the international matches in Regensburg and Deggendorf are available from 15 EUR at www.deb-online.de/tickets, at the offices and all known ticket agencies.
Toni Söderholm, national coach: “We are looking forward to the games in Regensburg and Deggendorf. These two games a week before the World Cup are extremely important for our team. In this phase, every training session and every game counts. Tactics, teamwork, special teams – we have to use every opportunity to develop further.”
Franz Reindl, President: “The international matches before the World Cup are crucial for the team’s interaction and for the performance at the tournament under the new national coach Toni Söderholm. It’s very nice to see how positive the cooperation with the host locations and clubs is and how the spectators accept the national team.”
Artur Frank, 1st board member at SC Deggendorf: “We were able to gain positive experience in advance through the two young talent tournaments for the U19 and U20 national teams. Deggendorf has created a good on-site infrastructure with a modernized stadium, a video cube, the press stands and the camera podium and, during the sporting success of the last few years, has produced outstanding young talent players such as Thomas Greilinger, Manuel Wiederer, Christoph and Andreas Gawlik or Timo and Thomas Pielmeier .
Ivo Stellmann-Zidek; 1. Board of Regenburg Ice Sports Club eV: "The EVR, along with all ice hockey fans in and around Regensburg, is looking forward to seeing coach Toni Söderholm's team live in the Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena. It is a great honor for us to be able to welcome the 2018 Olympic heroes to our team. And for the EVR's young ice hockey talent, the top-class encounter between two national ice hockey teams will certainly be unforgettable and an incentive to continue training hard, because children need role models."
“Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena, we are able to provide the setting for an international ice hockey game for the fifth time. For us it is of course the sporting highlight of the year and we are very pleased to be able to present the silver medalists from the 2018 Olympic Games to the entire ice sports-loving region. We are convinced that the national players will deliver a great game to the spectators under the new leadership of national coach Toni Söderholm.” Peter Lautenschlager; Operations manager of the Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena
The home games at a glance:
Date Time Meeting Venue
11.04.19/19/00 XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Germany Slovakia natural gas Swabia arena Kaufbeuren
13.04.19/20/00 XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Germany Slovakia Olympic Ice Sports Center GAP
25.04.19/19/00 XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Germany Austria the Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena Regensburg
27.04.19/20/00 XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Germany Austria Ice Stadium Deggendorf
07.05.19/19/00 XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. Germany USA SAP Arena Mannheim