The Deutscher Eishockey-Bund has to make do without Lukas Reichel and Nino Kinder at the U20 World Championship in Edmonton. The two strikers Eisbären Berlin have tested positive for the coronavirus and therefore cannot travel to the U20 national team in Füssen as planned. Reichel and children are currently in quarantine anyway following the known infections among the polar bears and are symptom-free.
U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter's team is training at the federal base DEB is currently completing the first part of the preparation for the tournament in Canada (25 December 2020 to 5 January 2021). On Sunday, the DEB-Tross by charter flight from Zurich to Edmonton. The team lives and trains under strict hygiene measures throughout the entire period.
U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter: “The news about the loss of Lukas Reichel and Nino Kinder is sobering for us. However, we have a lot of trust in every single player in the current preparation. We will use every training session to prepare the players as best as possible for the upcoming U20 World Cup.”
Luke Reichel: "I am of course incredibly disappointed and would have loved to play. The chance to play in a World Cup in Canada is not something you get very often. The most important thing for me now, however, is to get completely healthy again."