Since May 12, 2023 the Ice Hockey World Championship will take place in Finland and Latvia. After three narrow opening defeats, the German national team won all the remaining four group games and with a 5-0 win against France made it through to the knockout stages.
The quarter-finals between Germany and Switzerland begins on Thursday at 3:20 p.m. The lot is live on TV at Sport1 and MagentaSport to see.
All dates and the opponents of the national team can be found in this schedule as well as in our data center with all live tickers, results and tables for the Ice Hockey World Championship 2023.
Quarterfinals of the Ice Hockey World Championship 2023
- Thursday, May 25, 3:20 p.m.: USA v Czech Republic, MagentaTV, Sport1+
- Thursday, May 25, 3:20 p.m.: Switzerland – Germany, MagentaTV, Sport1
- Thursday 25 May, 19:20: Sweden v Latvia, MagentaTV, Sport1+
- Thursday 25 May, 7:20 p.m.: Canada v Finland, MagentaTV, Sport1
Games of the German national team
Preliminary round of the Ice Hockey World Championship 2023
To the group tables the Ice Hockey World Championship 2023.
Ice Hockey World Championship on TV
Broadcast on free TV sports1 all games of the German national team. In addition, the station shows other selected games as well as the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. All other games can be seen on the pay channel Sport1+.
Also the paid streaming offer MagentaSport has the ice hockey world championship in the program. All German games, other selected games and the complete knockout phase are running there.
Squad of the German national team
Goal: Maximilian Franzreb (Fischtown Pinguins), Mathias Niederberger (EHC Red Bull Munich), Dustin Strahlmeier (Grizzlys Wolfsburg)
defense: Leon Gawanke (Manitoba Moose), Leon Hüttl (ERC Ingolstadt), Moritz Müller (Kölner Haie), Jonas Müller (Eisbären Berlin), Moritz Seider (Detroit Red Wings), Maksymilian Szuber (EHC Red Bull Munich), Fabio Wagner (ERC Ingolstadt), Kai Wissmann (Providence Bruins)
attack: Alexander Ehl (Düsseldorfer EG), Daniel Fischbuch (Düsseldorfer EG), Dominik Kahun (SC Bern), Maximilian Kastner (EHC Red Bull Munich), Marcel Noebels (Eisbären Berlin), John-Jason Peterka (Buffalo Sabers), Justin Schütz ( EHC Red Bull Munich), Samuel Soramies (Augsburger Panther), Wojciech Stachowiak (ERC Ingolstadt), Nico Sturm (San Jose Sharks), Frederik Tiffels (EHC Red Bull Munich), Parker Tuomie (Straubing Tigers), Filip Varejcka (EHC Red Bull Munich), Manuel Wiederer (Eisbären Berlin)
Groups of the Ice Hockey World Championship
- Group A in Tampere: Finland, Sweden, USA, GermanyDenmark, France, Austria, Hungary
- Group B in Riga: Latvia, Canada, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Norway, Kazakhstan
Venues of the Ice Hockey World Championship
The 2023 Ice Hockey World Championship was originally supposed to take place in St. Petersburg. But due to the war of aggression against Ukraine, the World Federation IIHF withdrew the World Championship from Russia on April 26, 2022.
The game is now played in the Nokia Arena in Tampere, Finland (capacity: 13,500 spectators) and in the Arena Riga in the Latvian capital of Riga (Capacity: 10 300 spectators). The quarter-finals will still take place with two games each in both cities, semi-finals and finals will then only be played in Tampere.