Ice hockey World Cup now in the live ticker: Germany against Slovakia – how well does the DEB team start?

Created: 05/14/2022Updated: 05/14/2022, 19:05

By: Yasina Hipp

Lots of action in front of the goal of German ice hockey goalie Grubauer in the World Cup game against Canada.

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After the opening defeat of the German ice hockey team against record world champions Canada, the cards are reshuffled today against Slovakia.

Follow the game here in the live ticker.

• Germany - Slovakia -:- (-:-, -:-, -:-)

• The German ice hockey boys are playing against the team from Slovakia in the second World Cup game.

• All goals and highlights of the game are available in our live ticker.

Ice Hockey World Championship: Germany - Slovakia -:- (-:-, -:-, -:-) , today, 7:20 p.m

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Update from May 14, 7:02 p.m .:

NHL goalkeeper Philipp Grubauer from the Seattle Kraken will be on the ice again this time from the start.

DEB coach Toni Söderholm refrains from changing the goalie position.

So Mathias Niederberger from the champions Eisbären Berlin has to follow the game from the substitutes' bench.

Ice Hockey World Championship: Statistically speaking, Slovakia has an advantage

Update from May 14, 6.45 p.m .:

The statistics speak against the German team.

In a direct comparison of the last 40 games between Germany and Slovakia, the pendulum swings more in the direction of the Slovakian team led by coach Craig Ramsay.

The Slovaks have won 23 of the last 40 games and also have a goal difference of 100:85.

However: Of the last five games since the 2011 World Cup, the German team has won three.

In a few minutes it will be clear who will have the upper hand on the ice this time.

Update from May 14, 6:11 p.m .:

Before the second game of the German national ice hockey team, the other competitors from Germany’s Group A started the tournament today.

The Danish team demonstrated their skills with a furious thrashing victory against Kazakhstan.

Among others, Frederik Storm from ERC Ingolstadt scored for the Danes.

Germany meets the team from Denmark on Thursday (May 19, 3:20 p.m.).

Also in Group A, Switzerland beat the Italian national ice hockey team 5-2.

The Confederates are Germany's last opponent in the preliminary round (May 24, 11:20 a.m.).

Ice Hockey World Championship: Germany wants to get the first win of the tournament against Slovakia

Update from May 14, 5:22 p.m .:

Shortly before the game against Slovakia, World Cup debutant Kai-Wissmann from Eisbären Berlin looks back on yesterday evening.

The game against Canada is one "that we can build on," said Wissmann in an interview on the DEB Twitter channel.

However, he sees room for improvement in a number of points.

The defender says: "We have to play fast, avoid mistakes and take advantage of our chances, that's important at international level."

The 25-year-old shows no excitement before the second World Cup game.

For him there is no "huge difference" between the World Cup and the DEL in terms of level.

The game on the ice is "perhaps just a bit faster and you have a bit less time," analyzes Wissmann.

Above all, DEB team wants to take Push with them from the last third of the game against Canada

first report

: Helsinki - After the 3:5 defeat at the start in Helsinki against defending champion and record world champion Canada, the German national ice hockey team is not hanging its head.

In the second group game of the World Cup in Finland against the Olympic bronze medalist Slovakia, the boys of coach Toni Söderholm want to build on the strong final third.

"We'll get off the starting blocks better against Slovakia.

If we tweak a few things, we're on the right track," says NHL youngster Moritz Seider.

The team analyzed the game “critically”.

Especially at the end there were a lot of positives, says the 21-year-old Seider.

"In the last third we stepped on the gas again and we'll take that into the next game," emphasizes goalie Philipp Grubauer, who made a good game and made several strong saves.

Seider had scored the third goal for the DEB team with a double advantage and gave hope for a moment.

He also prepared the two goals from Marc Michaelis (28th) and Matthias Plachta (42nd), also in double the majority.

Cole Sillinger (9th), Pierre-Luc Dubois (18th, 32nd), Kent Johnson (34th) and Noah Gregor (38th) had given the 27-time world champion a 5-1 lead - memories of the opening game The Olympic debacle in Beijing in February was awakened when the DEB selection lost 5-1 to the second in the world rankings.

In the opening game against Canada, the German ice hockey boys were able to celebrate three goals.

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"We conceded two goals when we were outnumbered, so we must and will improve," says coach Söderholm.

But he is positive about the game against the Slovaks: "The last third gave us a push." ​​The DEB team also needs this push for the upcoming game in order to take revenge on the opponent for the crashing Olympic exit in February.

In Beijing, Germany, who had traveled there with gold ambitions, missed the round of eight with a 4-0 loss to Slovakia.