The German U20 national team has her third game at the 2020 IIHF U20 Ice Hockey World Championship in Czech Republic verloren. The team of U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter succumbed against Canada with 1:4 (0:1, 0:2, 1:1).
The Canadians started the game with a few chances to score, but they were unable to capitalize on them. The DEB-Selection was outnumbered for the first time in the ninth minute when Nino Kinder received a 2-minute penalty for obstruction. But Hendrik Digit saved strongly against Canadians who were partially free. In the 12th minute, however, the German goalkeeper was powerless: Nolan Foote put the disc in the goal to give the maple leaves a 1-0 lead. Shortly before the end of the third, the German team played well in the majority - they kept the Canadian defense team and the goalie busy with a few shots on goal, but were unable to equalize before the third break. U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter's team also had a few opportunities to equalize the score in the middle period. In the 25th minute, John-Jason dived Peter After good preparatory work by Tim Stützle, he got free in front of the goal, but was denied by the goalkeeper. A short time later, Yannik Valenti had the best opportunity on the German side when he was in the majority. The Canadians scored in the 33rd and 35th minutes through Liam Foudy and Cal Addison for the Canadians 2-0 and 3-0. The German team reduced the gap shortly before the end of the game through Yannik Valenti with a double majority (59') and then took goalie Hendrik Hane out of the goal. However, Ty Dellandrea made the final score 1:4 with an empty-net goal ten seconds before the end.
The German U20 national team will play again tomorrow, Tuesday. In the Ostravar Arena, the team of U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter will meet in the last preliminary round game from 15.00 p.m Russia. All of the German team's World Cup games and the final will be broadcast live and exclusively MagentaSport transfer.
Tobias Abstreiter, U20 national coach: "As the game progressed, we were under pressure and could have scored the equalizer. But then we gave up the game. We have to stick to the game plan for 60 minutes, then we can win games at this level."
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