The Austrian nationwide group confidently took benefit of their first probability and managed to keep away from early relegation on the Ice Hockey World Championships in Prague. The ÖEHV choice beat Norway 4:1 (0:0.3:0.1:1) on Sunday and bought the ticket for the 2025 World Cup in Sweden and Denmark. Peter Schneider (29/PP, thirty fourth) and Dominic Zwerger (twenty ninth) made the choice within the center third after preparatory work with Marco Rossi. Now even the quarter finals are attainable.
“It is an unimaginable achievement that we’re staying on the high for the third yr in a row,” Schneider stated. “It took us years to ship our greatest efficiency in a sport like this. It was unimaginable from begin to end, I am so happy with the group,” defined substitute captain Manuel Ganahl. “Now we have stayed on the high for 3 years now, that is an award, we may be very happy with it. That is superb promoting for ice hockey in Austria,” stated Marco Rossi.
There’s a probability to achieve the quarter finals
Austria can go into the group stage with out strain for the primary time since 2018 and with one other win towards Nice Britain on Tuesday (12.20 pm/reside ORF Sport+) they’d end the World Cup within the high ten for the primary time in 21 . years. There’s even an opportunity to achieve the quarter finals. Like Finland, Austria has seven factors and, if tied, is forward of the Olympic champions, who nonetheless face Denmark and Switzerland.
“It is unimaginable, now we will have a bit dream. To satisfy these, we have now to do our homework first and meaning successful the Nice Britain sport, that is not a assured success,” stated Roger Bader.
The supervisor of the group should do with out the captain Raffl
The group chief needed to do with out his sick captain Thomas Raffl, Ali Wukovits moved into the primary line as a wing along with his Salzburg teammates Benjamin Nissner and Mario Huber. David Kickert was most well-liked within the again and he did an excellent job once more.
Within the sport that was so necessary for each groups, it was really helpful to watch out at first. Within the first third, either side barely gave their opponents an opportunity. The sport broke up within the third red-white-red energy play.
Schneider went forward with a slap shot (twenty ninth). Simply 40 seconds later, an brisk push from Zwerger, whose Norwegian tried to deflect a go into his personal objective, made it 2-0 (29′). Along with his fourth objective of the match, Schneider (thirty fourth) lastly created a terrific ambiance amongst hundreds of red-white-red followers within the O2 Enviornment, which was effectively full of greater than 16,500 spectators. “So many Austrian followers, it was a terrific ambiance. It is nice to see that we triggered such euphoria,” stated Schneider fortunately.
With a robust penalty kill within the minority of two (39/40), the Austrians restricted the opportunity of the Norwegians coming again in any case. After that they missed some good counter possibilities, Steven Sturdy simply hit the bar (forty ninth). Sander Engebraten created pleasure once more in the long run along with his objective to achieve 1:3 (54th). Mario Huber completed this with a shot into the empty objective (58th). This was the primary World Cup victory towards Norway in 25 years, which was celebrated with standing within the stands.
Momentum used with an influence play objective
“We knew it might be a really robust and even sport. That is what it was firstly. After all, there was momentum with the facility play objective. The Rossi line took accountability for the three objectives, they will to try this, they already confirmed that towards Canada,” Bader analyzed the sport, however he emphasised the group’s administration. “I need to emphasize it and say it at each assembly of Austria the collective. Beginning with an excellent David Kickert, the fourth line additionally labored very effectively. The star is the group, it is a cliché, but it surely’s true for us,” stated the Swiss.
Regardless of reaching the objective, there’s nonetheless no celebration. “The gamers ought to get pleasure from themselves, at this time they are often blissful, no person says something towards beer. However the two magic phrases are restoration and refocus. From tomorrow the main focus is on Britain Large, “emphasis on Bader.
(Their: APA)