"The tournament is a good chance for us to prove that we want to have reparation," said national striker Marcel Noebels from the German champion Eisbären Berlin on Thursday in Helsinki. The selection of national coach Toni Söderholm against defending champion Canada in the World Cup in Finland (7.20 p.m.) starts on Friday.
"Of course, the incentive is great," said former NHL professional Korbinian Holzer. "There are other teams on the ice now, but we know how it started at Olympics. We will be warned." The 1: 5 against Canada in the first game at the winter games in February in Beijing was the beginning of the first violent setback in the time with national coach Söderholm. The selection of the German Ice Hockey Association was then disappointed with leaving before the quarter-finals after it started with gold ambitions to the Olympic tournament.
"I think we pulled the lessons out of it and learned a lot from it that we just have to bring 110 percent in every tournament and have to be there from the start in every game," said Holzer. "We definitely have to have a better start to the tournament than at the Olympics," said the defender of the Adler Mannheim.
At the 2021 World Cup in Riga, the first World Cup victory against the ice hockey mother country had been successful with the 3-1. After three defeats, Canada had chosen the world champion at the start.
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