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GDT: Group A • Dec. 31 • Germany vs. Finland

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for germany it would be very difficult to win against the swiss and when they are relegated i don´t think they will come back soon.
 
Looks eerily like the Slovakia game... Hopefully Germany doesn't have the skill to capitalize on the chances that will inevitably come.
 
JJTT said:
Jesus Puljujärvi.
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C'mon, it's not fair to hype up the guy this much. :sarcasm:

I haven't seen Germany's games but I didn't expect them to be this weak. Hopefully 2-3 quick goals for Fin to settle this game without the usual "making things hard" thing.
 
GirlsLoveCaps said:
What do you think is the problem? I don't wanna see those awesome jerseys go away :(
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The biggest problem is probably the lack of teams/rinks here in Germany. Its not like nobody cares about hockey, the 3 biggest clubs in Germany have like 10,000+ in attendance during the regular season and a lot of people are following the DEL, at least in the area where I live. My city has a population of 55k and doesnt have a rink, neither have the smaller towns with simular population around us. The next team and rink i know is in a city with a population of maybe 200.000-250.000 about 25 minutes away. (on the other hand we have about 13 football clubs in our city[55.000 population]) And there the junior teams have to train together so one team only has half a rink to train 2 times a week for about 1,5-2 hours. So you never get in a situation where you would start playing hockey as a child unless your parents are like totally in it. So you are probably just play football with your friends which doesnt cost much and you can play in your village.
Then you can imagine what the leagues are looking like if there is a league at all.
The structure down there is just terrible and its hard to get into hockey. Not everything is the fault of the DEB of course and a lot of time they dont have the money to do anything about it, but sometimes it seems like they dont want to realize how bad the situation is and act like everything is fine.
Another thing is that the top 2 leagues in Germany ( DEL [2] ) and the DEB dont really work together, therefor we have the problem TSN is mentioning a lot: we dont have a junior league. We have a u16 and u18 league where the DEL teams have there youth teams but they only play during the weekend and the quality of the games is obviously not that great. There also is a huge disparity between the teams resulting in the fact that a guy like rieder scored around 115 goals in around 35 games in the u16 league when he played there. So you can tell that the top playes dont have the competition they would need. So its also hard for them to present themselfs unless they are players like draisaitl and rieder. (we have 0 drafted players in this wjc) And as long as they arent good enough to play at the DEL level when they come out of the u18 league they have no league to play. They can play like 4-8 minutes on a del team or can compete in the 3rd league (a lot of 3rd league teams have an agreement with DEL teams, so they are like a farm team) where they again wont have the level of competition they would need to get a lot better.

sry for my english, not that good anyway+ 3:10 am and new year -> a bit drunk :laugh:
 
we have 15-0 shots

now we haven 23 - 6....

we starts good but now it would be time for the second goal
 
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