After avoiding relegation this year, it's time to start looking ahead to next year.
I think the team will be stronger than this year, but so will be the competition, which will make relegation an entirely possible outcome.
It's a little too early to post a likely roster (even though I did take a guess in another thread).
Here I want to post the pool of players I would suspect to be in consideration at each position (the players are listed alphabetically).
The ones I consider locks if available are bolded. The others I guessed in the other thread are in italics.
* indicates a returning player from this year.
Goalies:
Valentin Ankirchner (2005)
Matthias Bittner (2004)
Philipp Dietl (2004)
Dean Döge (2005)
Nico Pertuch (2005)
Keanu Salmik (2005)
Leon Willerscheid (2005)
Simon Wolf (2004)*
Defensemen:
Raya Bettahar (2004)*
Lars Bosecker (2005)
Kevin Grasmik (2004)
Leo Hafenrichter (2004)
Niklas Hübner (2004)
Jesse Kauhanen (2004)
Aaron Krebietke (2004)
Ole Krüger (2004)
Paul Mayer (2005)
Maximilian Merkl (2006)
Lua Niehus (2005)
Fabian Nifosi (2004)
Norwin Panocha (2005)
Michael Reich (2004)
Philipp Sinn (2004)*
Mason Sturm (2004)
Edwin Tropmann (2005)
Jakob Weber (2004)
Forwards:
Maksim Anton (2004)
Daniel Assavolyuk (2004)
Kevin Bicker (2005)
Linus Brandl (2005)
Benedikt Bürgelt (2004)
Moritz Elias (2004)
Luca Hauf (2004)*
Max Herzog (2006)
Eric Hördler (2004)*
Edmund Junemann (2004)
Roman Kechter (2004)*
Philipp Krening (2004)*
Nikita Krymskyi (2004)
Julian Lutz (2004)*
Lennard Nieleck (2004)
Veit Oswald (2004)*
Matthias Pischoff (2004)
Ralf Rollinger (2004)
Timo Ruckdäschel (2005)
Tim Schütz (2006)
Tom Schwarz (2004)
Leon Sivic (2004)
Julius Sumpf (2005)
Lukas Ullmann (2004)
Paul Vinzens (2005)
I was almost tempted to include a couple of 2007 players, but that just does not happen in German hockey, and while I think there are strong players in that age group, they are not that good.
I think the team will be stronger than this year, but so will be the competition, which will make relegation an entirely possible outcome.
It's a little too early to post a likely roster (even though I did take a guess in another thread).
Here I want to post the pool of players I would suspect to be in consideration at each position (the players are listed alphabetically).
The ones I consider locks if available are bolded. The others I guessed in the other thread are in italics.
* indicates a returning player from this year.
Goalies:
Valentin Ankirchner (2005)
Matthias Bittner (2004)
Philipp Dietl (2004)
Dean Döge (2005)
Nico Pertuch (2005)
Keanu Salmik (2005)
Leon Willerscheid (2005)
Simon Wolf (2004)*
Defensemen:
Raya Bettahar (2004)*
Lars Bosecker (2005)
Kevin Grasmik (2004)
Leo Hafenrichter (2004)
Niklas Hübner (2004)
Jesse Kauhanen (2004)
Aaron Krebietke (2004)
Ole Krüger (2004)
Paul Mayer (2005)
Maximilian Merkl (2006)
Lua Niehus (2005)
Fabian Nifosi (2004)
Norwin Panocha (2005)
Michael Reich (2004)
Philipp Sinn (2004)*
Mason Sturm (2004)
Edwin Tropmann (2005)
Jakob Weber (2004)
Forwards:
Maksim Anton (2004)
Daniel Assavolyuk (2004)
Kevin Bicker (2005)
Linus Brandl (2005)
Benedikt Bürgelt (2004)
Moritz Elias (2004)
Luca Hauf (2004)*
Max Herzog (2006)
Eric Hördler (2004)*
Edmund Junemann (2004)
Roman Kechter (2004)*
Philipp Krening (2004)*
Nikita Krymskyi (2004)
Julian Lutz (2004)*
Lennard Nieleck (2004)
Veit Oswald (2004)*
Matthias Pischoff (2004)
Ralf Rollinger (2004)
Timo Ruckdäschel (2005)
Tim Schütz (2006)
Tom Schwarz (2004)
Leon Sivic (2004)
Julius Sumpf (2005)
Lukas Ullmann (2004)
Paul Vinzens (2005)
I was almost tempted to include a couple of 2007 players, but that just does not happen in German hockey, and while I think there are strong players in that age group, they are not that good.
