The U18 national team won its opening game of the 2019 IIHF U18 Ice Hockey World Championship in Grenoble. The team of U18 national coach Frank Fischöder defeated the Kazakh team 5:2 (1:0, 2:0, 2:2) on Sunday evening.
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The DEB-Selection started the opening game of the World Cup with a few scoring chances. The German team's second power play led directly to the opening goal: Jan Nijenhuis scored it DEB-Selection after preparatory work by Maksymilian Szuber and Nino Kinder in the front in the 12th minute. In the second third, the team of U18 national coach Frank Fischöder increased to 24-30 and 2-0 with Elias Lindner (3th) and Niklas Heyer (0th). As a result, the U18 national team continued to show great improvement and continued to put pressure on the Kazakh goal. Finally, Nino Kinder (45th) and Jan Nijenhuis (47th) gave the German team a five-goal lead with their goals. The Kazakhs responded in the 54th minute with a double strike: Dias Gusseinov and Vladislav Saiko scored within twelve seconds, but could not prevent Germany's opening victory at the 2019 IIHF U18 Ice Hockey World Championship in Grenoble.
The German U18 national team will play in their second game of the World Cup tomorrow, Monday. Then the Norwegian selection will face them from 16.00 p.m.
Frank Fischöder, U18 national coach: “We started the game well and created some good chances, but unfortunately we were only able to take advantage of one of them. Defensively we improved significantly today and only gave the Kazakhs a few opportunities. After a short period of weakness in the final third, the boys were able to sort themselves out and bring home the deserved victory. The first step has been taken and tomorrow we continue against Norway. We’re preparing for that now.”
All statistics about the game: http://bit.ly/U18WC_2019