Your opinion was that they should be happy with staying in the elite division which I indeed considered ridiculous, and still do, they are in the same group with South Korea after all. Even ignoring the Olympic success that they had, they have qualified for the quarterfinals the last two seasons in the World Championship and have been relegated exactly once from the elite division during this millennium. Yet you somehow seem to think that it was somehow unjust of me to "pass off" your opinion as ridiculous.
Every year you have that one team that moves up from division 1 into the big leagues, and every year you have that one team that in reality has no business being in the big league, this year it's South Korea. What their existence in Group A has to do with Germany being content with being a "big league" team, I'm not sure.
I'm starting to believe we are running into some sort of language barrier here because by the looks of it, it appears that you believe that I said, or am implying that Germany was or is a candidate for relegation, which is absolutely not the case here.
Short of the Koreans finding a time machine and abducting Wayne Gretzky they will be relegated.
Let me try again here, Team Germany should be content (happy) with staying in the top flight and focus on using this experience to develop their young players, as opposed to expect a sure fire quarter finals appearance and seed discontent if they don't reach that "expected" goal.
Every team taking part in any sort of tournament should want to have the goal of winning it all, not every team however should expect to reach said goal.
How does that sound?