In the squad of the Austrian hockey players at the World Cup is also forward Rossi from Minnesota

Rossi collected 40 points for 21 goals and 19 assists in 82 games with the Wild this season. In the pedels of two roncs, he had one basket out of 21 weaves. Rossi made his debut at a major international event last year at the Tampere ampiont, where they beat Rakuan and made it to the elite for the second time in a row.

Goalkeeper Thomas Hneckl from Linz, defenders Paul Stapelfeldt from Salzburg and Ramn Schnetzer from Thurgau from last year’s runner-up team will make their debut at the World Cup, as well as striker Emilio Romig from Linz and 19-year-old Vinzenz Rohrer from last year’s champion Zurich.

Only defender Clemens Unterweger from Klagenfurt and forward Benjamin Baumgartner from Bern were missing from the field. Seven-year-old Tonka Thomas Raffl from Salzburg is preparing for ten world championships, six of which are in the elite category.

In preparation, Rakuan lost to Latvia in Riga twice 2:3 after separate games, then failed twice against Slovenia – in Ljubljana 2:5 and at home in Villach 0:6. In duels with the Czech Republic, they lost 1:5 in the Czech Republic to Budjovick and 2:3 at home in Linz, they lost to Germany in Garmisch-Partenkirchen 2:4 and at home in Zell am See they defeated it 2:1 after separate games and finally lost to Canada in Vienna 1 :5.

Rakuan will enter the playoffs on Saturday with a duel against Denmark, and in the other matches in the main group A in Prague, there are also Austria, Canada, Finland, on Friday, May 17 from 20:20 Czech Republic and Norway and Great Britain.