Thursday, 08. May 2025 |
Six Red Bulls at the World Championship in Sweden Friday first group game against Finland// National teamAustria's national team starts its group games at the IIHF World Championship in Stockholm (Sweden) and Herning (Denmark) on Friday and wants to stay in the top division. Austria has managed to stay in the top division three times in a row recently, but is playing in the group of the best 16 teams at the World Championship for the sixth time in a row (made possible by the circumstances of the corona pandemic and the exclusion of Russia and Belarus).
After some sensational games at last year's World Championship in Prague, the Austrians are highly motivated to cause a sensation again at the upcoming games and at least keep their place in the group. Team boss Roger Bader's squad will play their group games in Stockholm in the newly modernized Avicii Arena (with a capacity of 13,516 spectators) against Finland, hosts Sweden, Slovakia, Canada, France, Slovenia and Latvia.
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The two goalkeepers David Kickert and Atte Tolvanen (with Finnish-Austrian dual citizenship) as well as the forwards Niki Kraus, Thomas Raffl, Peter Schneider and Lucas Thaler are also in the squad for the Red Bulls. Paul Stapelfeldt, who trained at the Red Bull Ice Hockey Academy and most recently won the win2day ICE Hockey League four times with the Red Bulls, is also in the World Championship squad, but has left the club and will play for the Moser Medical Graz99ers from the coming season.
Austria will face Finland on Friday, May 9th (16:20, live on ORF 1) to kick off the group matches.
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