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Yes, yes our tournament was not that successful Although we didn't have the best of preparation (just one month before the World Championship home ice was available at the Kockelscheuer rink), we were up and top motivated for the Tournament and thought we could surprise everyone with some good results. In the first encounter versus Iceland we played really well and until ten minutes before the end of the game the score was tied at 2-2. Was it due to unnecessary penalties or lack of stamina we can't figure out, but within a timespan of three minutes Iceland scored three goals, for 5-2. To our defence one must say that we started the match with only three healthy defensemen, while Iceland could boast three equally strong lines. In the second game against Turkey we wanted to continue our good play of the first two periods of the previous match and thereby compete for silver medal. But somehow we didn't really came into our play. Our will to win was due to some unknown causes not present. Above that we encountered a Turkish player on top of his game in Ciplak, who beat us almost sigle handedly. Our first points would come against Armenia. Though we did see Aremia play we possibly underestimated the squad, who was quite another from the team we beat 30-2 last year in Mexico. We did manage to build up a 4-1 lead in the first stanza, but the Armenians countered with eigth goals in the middle period. Why the collapse happened we still don't know. My personal opinion is that we have to less competitive matches. We only played four championship matches in the French Third Dividion until December 2005 and only played one friendly against the strong Russsians of French side Amneville). After the first goal against we just stopped playing and were walked over by the strond Armenian team. Somehow it is curious how the Armenian team could bolster there line up in one year with ten new players... I the final encounter against Ireland we wanted to avoid ending
up last in the final ranking. But the Irish thought the same... I hope we can forget about this Championship as soon as possible and have a better preparation programm next year. We have to live for a year with the label "worst Ice Hockey Team in the world" :-( Patrick Schon
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Ja, ja, unser Turnier war nicht so erfolgreich... Obwohl
wir nicht die Im ersten Spiel gegen Island haben wir dann auch sehr gut
gespielt und Im zweiten Spiel gegen die Türkei wollten wir unsere
gute Leistung von Im Spiel gegen Armenien wollten wir dann endlich das erste
Mal Im letzten Spiel gegen die Iren wollten wir dann zumindest
den letzten Ich hoffe, dass wir diese Weltmeisterschaft schnellstens vergessen Patrick |