With less than three weeks until the 2022 Winter Olympic men’s hockey tournament gets underway, rosters are being finalized by all the participating countries. Germany is the latest to reveal who will represent their country in Beijing next month, announcing a roster that will try to follow up their silver medal performance from 2018. It’s not a group that is very familiar to NHL fans, though there are a few names that will ring a bell from their time in North America.
The full roster:
G Danny Aus den Birken
G Felix Bruckmann
G Mathias Niederberger
D Konrad Abeltshauser
D Dominik Bittner
D Marcel Brandt
D Korbinian Holzer
D Jonas Muller
D Moritz Muller
D Marco Nowak
D Fabio Wagner
F Lean Bergmann
F Yasin Ehliz
F Patrick Hager
F Dominik Kahun
F Nicolas Krammer
F Tom Kuhnhackl
F Stefan Loibl
F Marcel Noebels
F Daniel Pietta
F Matthias Plachta
F Leonhard Pfoderl
F Tobias Rieder
F Frederik Tiffles
F David Wolf
Once again this is a very veteran roster, with no young players really involved. Most of the European countries have gone this route, while the U.S. and Canada have both included some of the country’s top college and junior players. For Germany, who currently sit fifth in IIHF World Ranking, ahead of Czechia and Sweden, this is an important tournament and another chance to show what their homegrown talent and systems can do when the NHL is not participating.