Without the long-time NHL pros Christian Ehrhoff and Marcel Goc as well as top goal scorer Patrick Reimer, the national ice hockey team will face the important Olympic test at the Deutschland Cup.
National coach Marco Sturm also did not appoint the established Justin Krueger and Felix Schütz to his 28-member line-up for the home tournament in Augsburg (10th place). till 12. November).
The Deutschland Cup is three months before the Olympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang/South Korea (9th place). till 25. A top-class tournament awaits us,”he said,” We are looking forward to a top-class tournament. Russia, Slovakia and Team USA are also using the Germany Cup to prepare for the Olympic Games and are travelling with strong cadres,”said the DEB coach.
On the other hand, league top scorer Marcel Müller is about to make a comeback in the selection of the German Ice Hockey Association (DEB). Most recently, the 29-year-old played for the national team two years ago. In addition to Müller, Frank Mauer (Munich) also returns to the DEB squad.
Sturm also nominated debutants Stefan Loibl (Straubing) and Andreas Eder (Munich) for the three goalkeepers, ten defenders and 15 strikers. With the Deutschland Cup, the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Denmark, we have a season with great challenges ahead of us,”added Sturm, who will definitely be able to fall back on the services of Ehrhoff, Captain Goc and Reimer at the Olympics.
In Pyeongchang, the German team, like all other teams, has to do without the NHL players. The North American professional league has refused to allow its players to participate – The DEB line-up for the Germany Cup:
Goal: Danny Aus den Birken (Munich), Dennis Endras (Mannheim), Timo Pielmeier (Ingolstadt)
Defender: Daryl Boyle, Konrad Abeltshauser, Yannic Seidenberg (all Munich), Frank Hördler, Jonas Müller (both Berlin), Denis Reul, Sinan Akdag (both Mannheim), Moritz Müller (Cologne), Björn Krupp (Wolfsburg), Bernhard Ebner (Düsseldorf)
Strikers: Brooks Macek, Andreas Eder, Frank Mauer, Patrick Hager, Dominik Kahun (all Munich), Marcus Kink, Matthias Plachta (both Mannheim), Yasin Ehliz, Leonhard Pföderl (both Nuremberg), Marcel Müller, Daniel Pietta (both Krefeld), Thomas Oppenheimer (Berlin), Maximilian Kammerer (Düsseldorf), Stefan Loibl (Straubing), Thomas