The final line-up of the German U20 national team for the 2023 IIHF U20 World Championship in Halifax and Moncton has been determined. A total of 23 players (three goalkeepers, seven defensemen, 13 strikers) made it into the final young talent selection of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. V (DEB) and were nominated by the U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter for the junior tournament in Canada. The captains were Bennet Roßmy (Eisbären Berlin) and Yannick Proske (Iserlohn Roosters) and Nikolaus Heigl (Red Bull Hockey Juniors) certainly.
After intensive training sessions during the preparation in Antigonish and two of three test match wins, the DEB-Young talent selection already in Halifax today. In the tournament of preliminary round group A, the German U20 national team will face Sweden (German 27:2022 p.m.), Canada (December 19th / German 30:28.12 a.m. +00), Austria (December 30th / German 1:30.12 p.m.) and the Czech Republic (December 22st / German 30:31.12 p.m.) at the Scotiabank Centre from December 19th, 30.
U20 national coach Tobias Abstreiter: “The preparation phase is now over. We have many areas that are already well into development, however there is still room for improvement in some areas that we see and will work on over the next few days leading up to the first game. The team is now complete and everyone is now assigned a specific role, which they will fulfill. Nominating the final squad is always a difficult task, but that's part of it. The players who were not selected are of course still part of the team and will continue to be present in our minds. We wish these three boys all the best and would like to thank them again for their commitment. Unfortunately, Haakon suffered an injury, which made it impossible to continue playing here safely. There is always a certain risk in sending an injured player into the tournament. Nevertheless, we are all now looking forward to the upcoming tournament.”
Striker Bennet Roßmy: “I think we had a good preparation with three really good friendlies. The anticipation for the tournament is now obviously great. We will definitely be ready when we play against Sweden on December 27th.”
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The game plan of the German U20 national team
December 18.12.2022, 18 | 00:23 p.m. (German time XNUMX p.m.) | Test match | Germany – Slovakia 5:0
20.12.2022/19/00 | 0:1 p.m. (German time XNUMX a.m. +XNUMX) | Test match | Germany – Austria 3:4 aet
22.12.2022/19/00 | 0:1 p.m. (German time XNUMX a.m. +XNUMX) | Test match | Germany – Latvia 6:3
April 27.12.2022, 14 | 30:19 (German time 30:XNUMX p.m.) | Germany - Sweden
28.12.2022 | 19:30 (German time 00:30 +1) | Canada – Germany
April 30.12.2022, 17 | 30:22 (German time 30:XNUMX p.m.) | Germany - Austria
December 31.12.2022, 14 | 30:19 p.m. (German time 30:XNUMX p.m.) | Czech Republic - Germany
| No. | Position | Last Name | First Name | Club 2022/23 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Babulis | Rihards | EC Bad Nauheim |
| 30 | GK | Quapp | Nikita | Eisbären Berlin / Lausitzer Füchse |
| 29 | GK | Wolf | Simon | Red Bull Hockey Juniors |
| 2 | D | Bettahar | Rayan | Eisbären Berlin |
| 22 | D | Bidoul | Philipp | ESV Kaufbeuren |
| 5 | D | Elten | Nils | Iserlohn Roosters / Herner EV |
| 28 | D | Klein | Adrian | Straubing Tigers / EV Landshut |
| 4 | D | Sinn | Phillip | RB Hockey Juniors / EHC Red Bull München |
| 12 | D | van der Linde | Leon | EHC Red Bull München / ESV Kaufbeuren |
| 27 | D | Wäser | Julian | Lausitzer Füchse / Crocodiles Hamburg |
| 14 | F | Bader | Quirin | Red Bull Hockey Juniors |
| 21 | F | Del Monte | Ryan | London Knights |
| 17 | F | Hauf | Luca | Edmonton Oil Kings |
| 23 | F | Heigl | Nikolaus | Red Bull Hockey Juniors |
| 13 | F | Heigl | Thomas | Red Bull Hockey Juniors |
| 19 | F | Hördler | Eric | Eisbären Berlin / Lausitzer Füchse |
| 24 | F | Kechter | Roman | Nürnberg Ice Tigers |
| 11 | F | Krening | Philipp | EHC Red Bull München / Red Bull Hockey Juniors |
| 18 | F | Lutz | Julian | EHC Red Bull München |
| 20 | F | Oswald | Veit | EHC Red Bull München / SC Riessersee |
| 10 | F | Proske | Yannick | Iserlohn Roosters |
| 15 | F | Roßmy | Bennet | Eisbären Berlin / Lausitzer Füchse |
| 25 | F | van Calster | Robin | Kölner EC / EC Bad Nauheim |
STAFF: Tobias Abstreiter (head coach), Jochen Molling (assistant coach), Patrick Strauch (assistant coach), Sinisa Martinovic (goalkeeping coach), Christian Bachmann (athletic coach), Dr. Claudia Frenz (team doctor), Michael Haas (physiotherapist), Marc Linde (physiotherapist), Corbinian Cedzich (equipment manager), Ralf Stadler (equipment manager), Marceline Amlow (media manager), Lukas Pfeil (team manager)