Ice hockey: Storm:”Chance maybe only once in a lifetime”

At the Deutschland Cup, Marco Sturm is tinkering with his team for the Olympics:”There’s probably only a chance once in a lifetime,”he said against Russia before the start on Friday at 7.30 p. m. live on DAZN.

Three months before the winter games in Pyeongchang, 28 national players will be competing for tickets to South Korea at the Curt-Frenzel Stadium on the weekend. 28 of them will be competing for tickets to the first Olympic Games,”Most of them haven’t been there yet,” Sturm emphasized:”They have the opportunity to convince me personally, they have to do the same.

The chance is greater this time: Because the NHL doesn’t send its stars to Pyeongchang, the national coach has to play without Leon Draisaitl and Co. to get by.

“It will also be interesting for me to see how some of you react who takes over the command,” said the 39-year-old to the SID:”I hope that without the NHL stars, we will continue to implement our game as we have done in the last two years.

Christian Ehrhoff and Marcel Goc, who together have 1561 NHL games on their backs, have been put in the lead for Olympia and are given a break.

The top goal scorer Patrick Reimer from Nuremberg, who is still taking care of the storm after a long injury, and Felix Schütz from Cologne, who is missing for personal reasons, are also solid figures – as is Berlin’s Frank Hördler, who had to cancel injured at short notice.

Twenty places in the 25-member Olympic squad, which will have to announce the storm in January, are thus still open.

The 28th. Germany Cup is a real endurance test, because even opponents will be able to see the matches without NHL stars. After the opening match against Russia, the German team will face Slovakia on Saturday (16:00) and the USA on Sunday (all live on DAZN).

Goalkeeper:

33 Danny from the Birken (Red Bull Munich) 32 years old/34 international games

44 Dennis Endras (Eagle Mannheim) 32/93

51 Timo Pielmeier (ERC Ingolstadt) 28/32

Defender:

3 Justin Krueger (SC Bern) 31/97

6 Pascal Zerressen (Cologne sharks) 24/7

7 Daryl Boyle (Red Bull Munich) 30/33

16 Konrad Abeltshauser (Red Bull Munich) 25/12

36 Yannic Seidenberg (Red Bull Munich) 33/144

40 Björn Krupp (Grizzlys Wolfsburg) 26/24

41 Jonas Müller (Eisbären Berlin) 21/12

67 Bernhard Ebner (Düsseldorf EC) 27/29

82 Sinan Akdag (Adler Mannheim) 28/74

91 Moritz Müller (Cologne sharks) 30/119

Striker:

12 Brooks Macek (Red Bull Munich) 25/34

15 Stefan Loibl (Straubing Tigers) 21/0

17 Marcus Kink (Adler Mannheim) 32/126

22 Matthias Plachta (Eagle Mannheim) 26/59

25 Marcel Müller (Creef of Penguins) 29/64

26 Andreas Eder (Red Bull Munich) 21/0

28 Frank Mauer (Red Bull Munich) 29/64

42 Yasin Ehliz (Nuremberg Ice Tigers) 24/48

49 Maximilian Kammerer (Düsseldorfer EG) 21/2

50 Patrick Hager (Red Bull Munich) 29/120

72 Dominik Kahun (Red Bull Munich) 22/33

83 Leonhard Pföderl (Nuremberg Ice Tigers) 24/18

86 Daniel Pietta (Creef of Penguins) 30/89

93 Brent Raedeke (Adler Mannheim) 27/24

97 Thomas Holzmann (Augsburg Panther) 30/4