The German U18 national team also has the second game of this year's U18 Ice Hockey World Championships in Division I - Won Group A. On Monday afternoon, the boys secured honorary support from U18 national coach André Rankel the next three points. The game against Hungary ended 8:2. Goal scorers for that DEBteam were Tobias Schwarz, Dustin Willhöft (2), Maximilian Brunner, Lenny Boos, Elias Pul, Timo Kose and David Lewandowski. In the DEBLinus started the goal today Old man.
Unlike yesterday, it succeeded DEBteam to take the lead early today. The first penalty against Hungary was in the third minute. The German power play series took advantage of this directly: captain Tobias Schwarz netted after a pass from Max Bleicher for a 1-0 lead. Little of Hungary was visible until the tenth minute. Nevertheless, they succeeded through Aleksandar Antonijevic the interim compensation. Another penalty against Hungary brought Team Germany to the next power play, which only lasted six seconds: Dustin Willhöft got the target from the face-off point and scored from close range to make it 2-1 (12th). After a goalless power play, Hungary missed the equalizer again when the puck was on goal Old man slowly slipped past.
After the first break, it took 3:57 seconds for Maximilian Brunner to drive with speed into the attacking third after a quick break-out pass from his own zone and hit the Hungarian goalkeeper Viktor from an acute angle from the goal line Pass gate overcome. Almost two minutes later, Lenny Boos increased the score to 4:2 (26) with the next highlight goal. The Hungarian coach then changed goalie. The Hungarians were then able to use a power play in the 35th minute and Aleksandar's second goal Antonijevic shorten to 4:2. The German answer didn't take long: Timo Kose shot from the blue line and restored the old three-goal lead (37th). Shortly before the second break, Elias scored Pul with his first goal of the tournament to make the score 6-2 (40th).
With the reassuring lead, the German U18s were able to enter the final third calmly. The scoreboard ran well, the Hungarians rarely got the puck and so the 7:2 wasn't a big surprise: David Lewandowski scored after a pass from Dustin Willhöft (47th) to make it 7:2. It was just two minutes later Willhöft himself, who scored for the second time that afternoon (49th). She's going 8:2 DEB-U18, which has no play tomorrow, Tuesday, achieved its second win in this tournament. Matthias Pape was the player of the game.
U18 honorary national coach André Rankel: “Today we played a good game for over 60 minutes. We played our game, didn't deviate from our line and therefore deserved to win 8-2. We performed well as a team and the attitude of all the players was right. We as a coaching team are of course very satisfied with this. There will be a short training tomorrow and otherwise the boys have the rest of the day off. And so we are ready for the game against Ukraine on Wednesday.”
Captain Tobias Schwarz: “We dominated the game for over 60 minutes today and were the better team throughout the entire game. So we deserved to win. Now we need a bit of regeneration because we had two tough games in a row. On Wednesday we will see that we can get back into the game well and play our ice hockey for over 60 minutes.”
The next game at this year's U18 World Cup will take place on Wednesday from 16:30 p.m. Then it's against Ukraine.