GDT: Group A - May 10 - Slovakia (2) vs Germany (3) SO

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2017 IIHF World Championship
Group A

May 10
2:15 PM ET • 8:15 PM CET

Slovakia
Confirmed lineup

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

19 Michel Miklik​

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55 Mario Bliznak​

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87 Marcel Hascak​

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82 Pavol Skalicky​

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79 Libor Hudacek​

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22 Valdimir Dravecky​

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18 Andrei Kudrna​

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6 Lukas Cingel​

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80 Tomas Hrnka​

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59 Andrej Stastny​

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42 Tomas Zigo​

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21 Tomas Matousek​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

65 Michal Cajkovsky​

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8 Michal Sersen​

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28 Martin Gernat​

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26 Juraj Mikus​

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11 Peter Ceresnak​

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3 Adam Janosik​

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12 Eduard Sedivy​

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61 Peter Trska​

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Starter​

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Backup​

33 Julius Hudacek​

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50 Jan Laco​

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Scratched​

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Details​

G 32 Jaroslav Janus​

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Healthy​

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F 24 Jakub Suja​

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-​

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F 9 David Skokan​

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Injured​

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Germany
Confirmed lineup

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

95 Frederik Tiffels​

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42 Yasin Ehliz​

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37 Patrick Reimer​

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36 Yannick Seidenberg​

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72 Dominik Kahun​

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12 Brooks Macek​

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87 Philip Gogulla​

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17 Markus Kink "A"​

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55 Felix Schütz​

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22 Matthias Plachta​

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43 Gerrit Fauser​

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89 David Wolf​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

24 Dennis Seidenberg "A"​

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91 Moritz Müller​

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10 Christian Ehrhoff "C"​

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2 Denis Reul​

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16 Konrad Abeltshauser​

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48 Frank Hordler​

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3 Justin Krueger​

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-​

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Starter​

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Backup​

1 Thomas Greiss​

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33 Danny Aus den Birken​

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Scratched​

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Details​

F 8 Tobias Rieder​

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Injured​

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F 50 Patrick Hager​

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Suspended​

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Game Officials​

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Referee​

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Stefan Fonselius | -

Referee​

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Brett Iverson | -

Linesman​

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Rene Jensen | -

Linesman​

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Judson Ritter | -

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[BalticWarrior]

Heja Heja Slovensko! Come on Slovakia, lets go

 

[Babula]

^
no matter, just beat them

 

[KahunWOW]

Germany without Rieder and Hager... They will have a tough time scoring I guess

 

[kajoo]

No expectations from this game, anything else than a loss will put smile on my face.

 

[ozo]

Come on Slovakia, please do us a solid!

 

[DEMON01]

Based on yesterday's match, we can expect yet another line up changes.

If we manage to active at least one more line, in addition to L2/PP1, we could at least hope for something good.

 

[SchwenningerWildWing]

Rieder injured, Hager suspended, D.Wolf will be put in, leaving Germany with one open spot for the rest of the tournament to be nominated. Behind closed doors I bet they're praying that the Oilers will be outed by the Ducks, so they can fly in Draisaitl asap. Second best option would be Kuehnhackl from the Penguins. Should Edmonton and Pittsburgh go through to the Conference Finals Holzer and Grubauer are the other options for the last spot, but I'm sure Sturm would be less than thrilled with these two.

 

[Urbanskog]

Rieder injured, Hager suspended, D.Wolf will be put in, leaving Germany with one open spot for the rest of the tournament to be nominated. Behind closed doors I bet they're praying that the Oilers will be outed by the Ducks, so they can fly in Draisaitl asap. Second best option would be Kuehnhackl from the Penguins. Should Edmonton and Pittsburgh go through to the Conference Finals Holzer and Grubauer are the other options for the last spot, but I'm sure Sturm would be less than thrilled with these two.

Why could they have not waited one night to find out whether both Kühnhackl and Draisaitl would be eliminated? Slovakia isn't a particularly dangerous opponent.

 

[SchwenningerWildWing]

Why could they have not waited one night to find out whether both Kühnhackl and Draisaitl would be eliminated? Slovakia isn't a particularly dangerous opponent.

Now, that is a good question, but tonights game is a must win if Germany wants to advance to the quarters, so I think they didn't want to mess around. Sturm is quoted by Sport.de with that he didn't want to speculate any longer and that the games now are too important

http://www.sport1.de/eishockey/eish...ndestrainer-marco-sturm-fuer-wm-nachnominiert

 

[Urbanskog]

Now, that is a good question, but tonights game is a must win if Germany wants to advance to the quarters, so I think they didn't want to mess around. Sturm is quoted by Sport.de with that he didn't want to speculate any longer and that the games now are too important

http://www.sport1.de/eishockey/eish...ndestrainer-marco-sturm-fuer-wm-nachnominiert

I understand the point to some extent but I don't see Germany losing to Slovakia considering the way both teams have played. Germany even had a day off yesterday while Slovakia played a late-night game against Denmark which wasn't decided until the shootouts so there's that too.

 

[rillijutila]

hudacek or laco in goal?

 

[PapaQ]

hudacek or laco in goal?

Apparently Hudacek. I am ok with that, don't think the goaltending is our main issue right now.

 

[Sanderson]

Rieder injured, Hager suspended, D.Wolf will be put in, leaving Germany with one open spot for the rest of the tournament to be nominated. Behind closed doors I bet they're praying that the Oilers will be outed by the Ducks, so they can fly in Draisaitl asap. Second best option would be Kuehnhackl from the Penguins. Should Edmonton and Pittsburgh go through to the Conference Finals Holzer and Grubauer are the other options for the last spot, but I'm sure Sturm would be less than thrilled with these two.

I don't see why Sturm would be less than thrilled with getting Holzer. He'd be a big boost for the defense, as he has proven in the past. Sure, if he's the one available it means Germany's best player isn't, but that is the only negative. In terms of impact, Holzer probably beats Kühnhackl.

 

[DEMON01]

As was expected, line up changes were announced:

http://sport.aktuality.sk/c/275862/...red-nemeckom-niekolko-zmien-v-zlozeni-utokov/

Expected starting line ups:

Hudáček (Laco)

Čajkovský, Sersen,
P. Čerešňák, A. JánošÃ­k,
Gernát, J. Mikuš,
P. Trška, Šedivý


Miklík, Bližňák, Haščák
Dravecký, L. Hudáček, Skalický
Hrnka, Cingeľ, Kudrna
Matoušek, Zigo, Šťastný

Can't say this is exactly what I expected, but I also didn't know Skokan was out.

 

[tobu]

Expecting Germany to take a 2 or 3 goal lead in 40 min, Slovakia coming back in the 3rd to possibly take it to overtime or loose by a goal.

 

[Hemsky001]

3-1 Germany
Hope I'm wrong though.

 

[kary]

This could be good.

 

[BalticWarrior]

Possesion seems equal but germans are generating better chances

 

[Zaar]

What was this?

 

[BalticWarrior]

Hell yeah! Slovenskooo

 

[kary]

high stick

 

[BalticWarrior]

Thats got to be a good goal.

 

[Zaar]

From one perspective it looks good, from the other it does not ...

 

[Zaar]

Greiss on the bench?