Question mark offensive, but more depth? Debit

With Tim Support, John Peter and Lukas Rachel, U-20 National Trainer Tobias absorbs his three best and best known players in Canada. The mission quarterfinals therefore becomes anything but a self-runner. Nevertheless, the German squad may have more depths than that of the previous year — and not only because the Germans crowned by Corona infections had to compete largely decimated over long stretches of the tournament.

The defensive: stability thanks to professional experience?

So in the gate next to Florian Bull, which showed good performance in his three missions last year, Nikita Qua pp particularly in focus. For the 18-year-old played — unusual for a goalkeeper — already a total of 19 del games for the Krefeld Penguins and was selected in 2021 by the Carolina Hurricanes in the sixth round in the draft.

In the defense against Luca Sullenberger, the second German player, which selected with the Edmonton Oilers (already in the third round) an NHL team. The 19-year-old is already playing for the University of Vermont (NCAA) in North America. Probably never before, however, in a German junior selection team already played as many actors in the DEL as this year. Whether Adrian Klein (Stabbing), Fabricio Pile (Nuremberg) or Radius Dziambor (Mannheim) and Maximilian Super (Munich) — they all receive regularly in responsible roles at their teams. A few years ago, this was so hardly conceivable.

Despite Hope Elias: question marks offensive

In the offensive, the absence of the triumph of the 2002 vintage especially hurts — even if with Captain Florian Elias, after all, a member of the top row of the previous year with Shuttle and Peter, which had completed the tournament on the squares four to six of the entire tournament, again with the Party is. However, the lightness of the score ne from the previous year should be missing this time.

After all, as in defense, with Alexander Blank, Justin Voles and Maciej Murkowski (both Krefeld) and Bennet Ross my (Berlin) or Joshua Kaminski (Stabbing) are other already disproven actors with the game. If talented players like Thomas Hall, who already has a del gate in the account, or Josef Exam and Banjo Leonard from the Talent Pool of Red Bull Academy, however, can not step in production, the offensive of the DEB team, all Unlike in the previous year, become the largest German Achilles fer.

Strong Finns and Offensive Free Czechs

And how are the German group opponents to assess in group A? The first German Opponent on Sunday (December 26, 8 pm CET) has it right in itself: Finland has numerous top-class actors. Already 14 players have already been driven by NHL clubs, most players are already active in the Finnish top league. With Oakum Keel (17) and Brad Lambert (18) are two younger vintages in the squad, both of which are likely to be selected in the NHL Draft 2022 among the first ten.

Germany's second opponent Czech Republic (Tuesday, December 28, 1 o'clock) has even ten players in the squad, whose rights are already at NHL clubs, the most famous of them is probably Jan Mask (Montreal Canadiens; plays still in the Junior League OHL). The Czechs have a team that has his strengths in the offensive, against which the DEB selection can calculate quantities.

Topfavorit Canada — and young Austrians

In the night from Wednesday to Thursday (December 30, 1 o'clock), the team of out streams to meet with tournament Favorite Canada, in which the German team is the skier outsider. Defender Owen Power was selected 2021 first in the NHL draft from the Buffalo Sabers, the striker Mason McDavis (18), Cole Peretti and Jake Neighbors (both 19) already contested their first NHL inserts — and Connor Beard (Only 16) and Shane Wright (17), are considered coming superstars, which are likely to be selected in the drafts 2023 or 2022 very far ahead.

The quarterfinal collection could only decide in the final fourth game against Austria on 31 December (Friday, 8 pm). Although the Alpine countries are outsiders in group A and traveled with a very young squad to Edmonton. But not only Top Talent Marco Jasper (17), who at Role BK (Ex-Club of the German NHL Shooting Stars Moritz Safer) in Sweden already plays with the professionals is not to be underestimated.