Nearly all the players of the German team will come from the DEL, which is an esteem that will also be transported to the play-offs,”DEL Managing Director Gernot Tripcke told the SID on the fringes of the season’s opening event.
After the cancellation of the North American professional league NHL for the winter games in February, national coach Marco Sturm will put together his team almost exclusively from DEL professionals.
In return, the DEL, which will enter its 24th year of operation on Friday, will interrupt.We see it with a laughing and crying eye,”continued Tripcke:” Almost four weeks break is already a challenge, but Olympia is very important for German ice hockey,”The World Championships in May, when the German team reached the quarter-finals in Cologne, had already attracted a lot of attention from the general public.
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The number of TV viewers had already increased significantly last season.More than ten million fans watched the new free-TV partner Sport1 at 44 matches, and more than eight million watched the live broadcasts of all of Deutsche Telekom’s league games,”We have almost quadrupled our live media data,”said Tripcke.In the new season, Deutsche Telekom will also be broadcasting all matches live, with Sport1 showing at least 40 games on free-to-air television.
Three days before the start of the season, the DEL also determined its best on the ice in Mannheim.The toughest shot was taken by Shawn Lalonde from Cologne with a speed of 162 km/h, the fastest runner was Sebastian Uvira from Cologne, the smartest player of the Wolfsburg Mark Voakes.