The Men's national team of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. V (DEB) is entering the third week of preparation for the World Cup. National coach Harold Kreis' team will meet in Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Tuesday afternoon. The next international matches on the way to the World Cup are the games against Austria
The first meeting will take place next Thursday in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (game starts at 19:00 p.m.). The second comparison between both teams will take place in Zell am See (AUT) next Saturday. The game starts at 16:15 p.m.
Tickets for the international match against Austria are still available 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 again nominated a 26-man squad for phase three, consisting of three goalkeepers, nine defenders and 14 strikers. Three players from the PENNY DEL semi-finalists are joining the team this week EHC Red Bull München: Goalkeeper Mathias Niederberger and the two strikers Yasin Ehliz and Maximilian Kastner.
More national players are also expected in phase four, which will be on the agenda from May 1st. This affects both playoff finalists Berlin and Bremerhaven as well as the NHL players who are available to the national team for the World Cup. This is where it is located DEB currently clarifying the remaining formalities in order to be able to confirm participation.
National coach Harold Kreis on the third preparation phase: “We have developed further over the course of the first two weeks of preparation and are well on the way to finding the identity we need for the task at the World Cup. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of joint work ahead of us, which we will now tackle more intensively in phase three. This is primarily about our defensive work and structure. We will welcome our three new arrivals from Munich and add them to our squad. At the same time, we would like to thank the players who are no longer there for their commitment in phases one and two.”
An overview of the men's national team's World Cup preparations
April 11.04.2024, 17 | 10:XNUMX | Czech Republic - Germany | 3:0 (1:0, 1:0, 1:0)
April 13.04.2024, 17 | 10:XNUMX | Czech Republic - Germany | 4:2 (1:1, 3:0, 0:1)
18.04.2024/19/30 | XNUMX:XNUMX | Germany – Slovakia | 7:3 (2:2, 3:1, 2:0)
20.04.2024/17/00 | XNUMX:XNUMX | Germany – Slovakia | 4:5 nV (0:1, 3:2, 1:1, 0:1)
25.04.2024/19/00 | XNUMX:XNUMX | Germany – Austria in Garmisch-Partenkirchen
April 27.04.2024, 16 | 15:XNUMX | Austria - Germany in Zell am See (AUT)
04.05.2024/14/00 | XNUMX:XNUMX | Germany – France in Wolfsburg
06.05.2024/19/30 | XNUMX:XNUMX | 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.