The Men's national team of the Deutscher Eishockey-Bund. V (DEB) has started the third week of preparation for the World Cup. The first ice training session in Garmisch-Partenkirchen was on the agenda late on Tuesday afternoon; the session lasted around 90 minutes in the Olympic Ice Sports Center. The next sessions are scheduled for Wednesday, before the team gathers in the evening for a team meeting in preparation for the two international matches against Austria and gets ready for the task ahead.
The first of two games against Team Austria will take place on Thursday evening in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. The game starts at 19 p.m. in the Olympic Ice Sports Center. Tickets are available for the game DEB-Ticket shop: https://www.ticket-onlineshop.com/ols/deb/.
Both games are live and free MagenaSport gezeigt.
For the second duel with Austria, the national team will travel to Zell am See on Friday afternoon. The second international match against Austria will take place there on Saturday afternoon (16:15 p.m.). The last meeting between the two teams took place at the 2023 World Cup in Tampere: At that time, the DEB-Selection came out on top 4-2 in an exciting, hard-fought match.
National coach Harold Kreis on the two international matches: “The games against Austria are derbies with the corresponding rivalry. We will certainly be able to shape our own game even more than we did against the Czechs or Slovaks. What is important this week is that we integrate the players who have joined from Munich into our system. We also want to further strengthen our defensive zone and implement the knowledge we gained in the games against Slovakia.”
Defender Fabio Wagner: “In the last two training sessions we have placed our main focus on our defensive structure. We were still missing something in the last few games. We want to do better in the two games against Austria. There is always a derby rivalry and high intensity in the encounters with the Austrians, which is always fun for us and I'm sure it will be Fans get carried away.”
Striker Yasin Ehliz: “We are happy to be here with the team now. We said in advance that we would definitely like to be part of the national team again. Unfortunately, we were eliminated in the league in the playoff semi-finals, so we are even more motivated now DEBteam to be successful. With regard to the two test matches against Austria, our goal is to play successfully and win the games. But first and foremost, as new players, we have to make sure that we can quickly find our way into the system and implement it successfully.”
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 aet (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.