WM-AUS: Switzerland manufactures Austria 6-0-Diepresse.com

In the quarterfinals, the final station was at the World Cup for Austria’s national ice hockey team. The ÖEHV selection in Herning/Denmark against the clearly favored Switzerland was without chance and lost 0: 6 (0: 3, 0: 2, 0: 1). After the successful group phase with four victories, Austria ended the tournament in eighth place, the best placement in 31 years.

After the strong achievements against the Scandinavian medal attendants Finland (1: 2) and Sweden (2: 4), the Austrians had hoped to be able to stand up to the vice world champion in the first quarterfinals since 1994. But the Confederates overruned the Swiss Roger Bader Supervised ÖEHV selection, played out of their superior class from the first minute and were shining 5-0 after 25 minutes.

A lot of work for Kickert

After a minute, the game was interrupted because part of the lighting had failed above the Austrian goal. Although the lights could not be turned up for the time being, it was continued after around ten minutes. The action then played almost completely in the somewhat darker area.
goalkeeper David Kickert In front of only 2,621 spectators under the long -term fire, the Swiss coined their superiority by Christoph Bertschy (7th), Timo Meier (12th /pp) and Ken Jäger (15th) also to goals. Apart from a power play, the Austrians hardly came to the third of the attack in the third third Marco Kasper (9.) brought danger.

Play duration disciplinary penalty for Rohrer

The next setback followed after 19 minutes. Vinzenz Rohrer returned to a cross check by Sandro Schmid with its own cross check and was excluded. In addition, the Swiss received five minutes of power play because Schmid’s foul was not punished. Kevin Fiala used the outnumbered for the fourth goal (24th /pp), Schmid followed up a little later (25th).

The Austrians were struck and unsettled and could not capitalize on the ice from one minute with two players. In the next power play, Peter Schneider thundered the puck to the rod at 150 km/h (31st). At the only quarter-finals in 1994, it had set a 0: 10 deportation in Milan against Finland, it wasn’t that bad this time. The Swiss went from the accelerator pedal and only met by Simon Knak (52nd).

The World Cup is also over for Finland. The USA was lost 2: 5.