Germany releases 2022 World Junior roster

The 2022 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship is set to get underway in just over a week at Rogers Place in Edmonton (Alberta) and teams are getting their rosters finalized.

As everyone knows, the original tournament back in December was cancelled only a few days in due to COVID-19 cases among a few teams. The International Ice Hockey Federation then announced back in the spring that the tournament would be replayed in full, with Rogers Place, home of the Edmonton Oilers, hosting from August 9th to 20th.

Let's take a look at Germany's roster for the upcoming tournament.

Goalies (3)

Florian Bugl
Niklas Lunemann
Nikita Quapp

Defencemen (8)

Arkadiusz Dziambor
Nils Elten
Luca Munzenberger
Korbinian Geibel
Maximilian Glotzl
Adrian Klein
Maksymilian Szuber
Leon van der Linde

Forwards (14)

Alexander Blank
Ryan Del Monte
Josef Eham
Luca Hauf
Nikolaus Heigl
Thomas Heigl
Haakon Hanelt
Danjo Leonhardt
Yannick Proske
Bennet Rossmy
Maciej Rutkowski
Joshua Samanski
Markus Schweiger
Justin Volek

Germany will open their 2022 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship schedule on August 9th against the United States. They'll then face Austria on August 10th, Switzerland on August 13th and will wrap up group play on August 15th against Sweden.

Der finale Kader für die Junioren-WM in 🇨🇦 steht fest 🏒 Gemeinsam mit 23 Spielern treten U20-Bundestrainer Tobias Abstreiter & sein Trainerteam die lange Reise an. Vor Ort stoßen dann noch Haakon Hänelt & Luca Münzenberger dazu. Weitere Infos dazu hier 👉 https://t.co/h1sGSOfPl7 pic.twitter.com/rPGQVLOZ9O— Deutscher Eishockey-Bund (@deb_teams) July 31, 2022

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