Austria lost 2: 4 – Diepresse.com at the World Cup at the World Cup

Austria’s men’s ice hockey team of men briefly missed its first point at the World Cup held in Sweden and Denmark. On the day after the somewhat unfortunate 1-2 defeat against Finland, the ÖEHV team in Stockholm defeated 2: 4 (0: 0.1: 1.1: 3) on Saturday against the local heroes from Sweden, although they had led 2: 1 130 seconds before the end. Austria’s next opponent in Group A is Slovakia on Monday (4:20 p.m., Live ORF 1).

For a long time, the Austrians have been able to speculate with the first point against the title Co favorite this time in order to write to the descent in the exhausted fight, in the best possible way, even in the direction of the dream. In the further course of the group, on Thursday and Friday against record world champion Canada or France, on Sunday next week against the Slovenes, which were defeated on Saturday, and on Tuesday against Latvia.

Kickert strong ÖehV retention

The Swedes, which had been safe against the well-founded Slovaks the day before, had their problems against red-white-red from the start, did not come into play. The outsider consistently defended with the best player goalie David Kickert, put in an offensive carefree accents. The hosts had a slight overweight of 8: 5, but the somewhat better bullet options had the team from Coach Roger Bader. After just a few minutes, Paul Huber had found the chance of a quick lead.

However, it went goalless in the second section, in which kickers prevented the deficit in the 24th minute with a brilliant parade. The goalie is planned for its Salzburg club colleague Atte Tolvanen in the goal, the latter of course drove to Finland on Saturday morning to his wife in the contractions. Two minutes after Kickert’s heroic deed, Benjamin Baumgartner met for the lead after a shot by Thomas Raffl by Rebound. The Swedes needed a power play to compensate for through Mika Zibanejad (34th).

The renewed ÖEHV leadership brought Marco Kasper out of a counterattack again in the 53rd minute. The NHL legionnaire of the Detroit Red Wings played back to World Cup debutant Ramon Schnetzer, whereby the defender of the fourth line immediately served the puck for the not long torchy Kasper. The Austrians met the lead with a further disciplined and consistent performance, but Jonas Brodin and Zibanejad concerned Sweden leadership within twelve seconds (58.). Alexander Wennberg still hit the empty goal (59th).