Switzerland’s nomination for the 2024 Ice Hockey World Cup

The 31-year-old Niederreiter is preparing for his eighth World Championship. He was there to win silver in 2013 in Stockholm and 2018 in Copenhagen and Herning, where the Swiss equaled their best finish from 1935. He also competed at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and two years later played in the World Cup final in Toronto with the European team .

In the NHL, Niederreiter played 887 games in the regular season for the New York Islanders, Minnesota, Carolina, Nashville and Winnipeg, adding another 92 duels in the playoffs. The Jets fell to Colorado on Tuesday after going 1-4 in games.

Josi was eliminated with Nashville on Friday after losing to Vancouver 2-4 in the game. The Swiss cannot count on forward Kevin Fiala of Czech origin from Los Angeles, who was also eliminated in the 1st round of the playoffs with Edmonton. He will be by his wife’s side, with whom he is expecting the birth of his first child this month.

In addition to Niederreiter, the squad was also completed by five finalists of the Swiss league – defenders Christian Marti and Dean Kukan from champion Zurich and striker Sven Andrighetto, defenders Andrea Glauser and Ken Jäger from Lausanne. On the contrary, after the tournament in Brno, the backers David Aebischer and Inaki Baragan from Rapperswil, Dominik Egli from Davos, Samuel Kreis from Bern, Tobias Geisser from Zug and forwards Tino Kessler with Mike Künzl from Biel, Marco Lehmann from Bern, Tyler Moy from Rapperswil and Tanner Richard of Geneva.

Ambühl went down in the history of the World Cup with eighteen participations and 131 duels played. He was not absent from winning silver in 2018. He also started five times at the Olympic Games. Last May, he overtook defender Mathias Seger, who managed 305, in the number of international matches, and will continue to push his record of 321 matches. He is also the leader with 145 points and 91 assists, and with 54 goals he can attack the second Martin Plüss (56). The record holder is Jörg Eberle (79).

Like Niederreiter, goalkeeper Reto Berra from Friborg is also a two-time world champion. In Denmark six years ago, the other goalkeepers were Leonardo Genoni from Zug, defenders Kukan, Michael Fora from Davos and forwards Andrighetto, Gaëtan Haas from Biel and Tristan Scherwey from Bern. Schmid, fullback Sven Jung from Davos and forwards Jäger and Thierry Bader will make their debuts at the major international event.

Berra (Calgary, Colorado, Florida and Anaheim), Kukan (Columbus) and Haas (Edmonton) also have NHL experience, as well as other forwards Andrighetto (Montreal, Colorado), Christoph Bertschy from Friborg (Minnesota) and Calvin Thürkauf from Lugano (Columbus). .

In preparation, the Swiss lost twice to Slovakia 0:3 and 3:5, then at home they beat France twice 2:0 and 3:2 in overtime and won twice over Latvia (5:1 and 4:0). The Czech Games started with a 1:2 defeat against Sweden, then in Brno, after losing to Finland, they beat the Czech national team 2:1. It was their first win out of 12 duels in the Euro Hockey Tour in the season.

The Swiss will enter the World Cup on Friday at 16:20 against Norway. In other duels of the basic group A in Prague, they will face Austria, the Czech Republic on Monday, May 13 from 20:20, and then Great Britain, Denmark, Canada and Finland.

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