In Austria too, the puck always has high season – Diepresse.com

Vienna. It is an annual spectacle: open the outdoor pools, the masses are moving outdoors in the swimwear from May 1st. But a small number of daring tiger does not want to know anything about the summer, but extends the season that is far too long again by a few weeks. As an ice hockey player, it’s not easy, certainly not in Austria. It remains unanswered whether the cracks of team boss Roger Bader see it or their perception is only devoted to the puck.

In any case, the A-WM in Stockholm will only primarily be about making relegation at the A-WM in Stockholm from May 9th. Austria meets in Group A on Finland (sensationally 3: 2 last defeated in Prague), Sweden, Slovakia, Canada, France, Slovenia and Latvia. In Group B (Herning), the Czech Republic, host Denmark, Germany, Kazakhstan, Norway, Switzerland, USA and Hungary play. A top -class test on Sunday in the Kagran Eishalle (7 p.m., Live ORF Sport+) will show how it is. Here, too, a coup from the previous year was noted: you were 1: 6 behind and conjured up a 6: 6 on the ice area.

With Kasper, without Rossi

NHL-Export Marco Kasper, Switzerland-legionnaire Vinzenz Rohrer (Master with ZSC Lions) and Salzburg goalkeeper Atte Tolvanen-the Finn was naturalized for the World Cup-returned to the last team camp in good time. Kasper’s game permit from the Detroit Red Wings has long been there, he has been in Vienna since Wednesday.

Minnesota-Crack Marco Rossi is not there. In the NHL’s first play-off round, the Vegas Golden Knights were eliminated with the 2: 3 home defeat and lost the « Best of Seven » series with 2: 4, but how the 23-year-old continues is open. The unexplained contractual situation is the reason why Rossi cannot come to the World Cup. His contract has expired, he is now a « restricted free agent ». The center can sign with any club. Rossi was the second best scorer of the club in the basic round of 60 points (24 goals and 36 assists), but was released into the fourth line in the play-off and hardly got any ice age.