The Men's national team of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. V (DEB) starts the second phase this week Preparation for the 2024 IIHF World Championship in the Czech Republic (May 10 to 26, 2024). The first two international matches come before the domestic ones Fans in Germany. The opponent is the selection of Slovakia: on Thursday, April 18th at 19:30 p.m. in Kaufbeuren and on Saturday, April 20th at 17 p.m. in Augsburg. The national team will meet in Augsburg on Tuesday afternoon and prepare for the two games on site.
Tickets for the two international matches in Kaufbeuren and Augsburg are available at DEB-Ticket shop: https://www.ticket-onlineshop.com/ols/deb/.
Both games will be shown live and free of charge on MagenaSport.
National coach Harold Kreis has nominated a 26-man squad for phase two, consisting of three goalkeepers, nine defenders and 14 strikers. New are goalkeeper Florian Bugl, defender Mario Zimmermann and the two strikers Joshua Samanski and Parker Tuomie from the PENNY DEL semi-finalists Straubing Tigers. Dominik Kahun (SC Bern) and Marc Michaelis (EV Zug) join the squad from Switzerland. The coaching staff will remain unchanged in phase two. The national players of the second semi-finalist EHC Red Bull München will join the team in phase three after consultation with national coach Harold Kreis.
It will be on the day of arrival DEB-Selection complete the first training session in Augsburg's Curt Frenzel Stadium in the early evening. After another day of training, on Thursday in Kaufbeuren (19:30 p.m.) we will face Slovakia - the first opponents in the preliminary round DEB-Selection for the start of the World Cup on Friday, May 10, 2024. Another day of training is on the agenda on Friday, before the second comparison against the Slovaks in Augsburg (17:00 p.m.) follows on Saturday. After the game, phase two of the World Cup preparation ends, and phase three starts on the following Tuesday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
National coach Harold Kreis about the coming week and the nomination: “We gained a lot of knowledge from the two games against the Czech Republic for implementation in phase two. In the coming week we will continue to work on the structure and pace as well as on tactical details. We are excited about the energy that the players who are now joining our team bring and at the same time we would like to thank those who were there in phase one and are no longer in the squad. We are particularly looking forward to the first preparatory games before our home ones Fans in Kaufbeuren and Augsburg, because we expect two atmospheric ice hockey arenas. This will give the team a lot of energy for the further journey towards the World Cup in the Czech Republic.”
An overview of the men's national team's World Cup preparations
April 11.04.2024, 17 | 10:3 | Czech Republic – Germany | 0:1 (0:1, 0:1, 0:XNUMX)
April 13.04.2024, 17 | 10:4 | Czech Republic – Germany | 2:1 (1:3, 0:0, 1:XNUMX)
April 18.04.2024, 19 | 30:XNUMX p.m. | Germany – Slovakia in Kaufbeuren
April 20.04.2024, 17 | 00:XNUMX p.m. | Germany – Slovakia in Augsburg
April 25.04.2024, 19 | 00:XNUMX p.m. | Germany – Austria in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
April 27.04.2024, 16 | 15:XNUMX | Austria – Germany in Zell am See (AUT)
May 04.05.2024, 14 | 00:XNUMX p.m. | Germany – France in Wolfsburg
May 06.05.2024, 19 | 30:XNUMX p.m. | Germany – France in Weißwasser
Tickets are available in DEB-Ticket portal (https://www.ticket-onlineshop.com/ols/deb/).
All preparatory games of the German national team are live and free of charge MagentaSport to see: http://www.magentasport.de/aktion/deb-live.