Germany releases final roster for 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship

Germany comes into the 2023 IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship looking to improve on their sixth-place finish at August's tournament.

When looking at the groups for this year's tournament, Germany will more than likely be in a battle for the fourth and final quarter-final spot in Group A with Austria. Germany will face Austria on December 30th, a game that will probably decide who makes the quarter-final, while the other will face the fifth-place team in Group B in the best-of-three relegation series.

Let's take a look at Germany's final 23-man roster for the 2023 World Juniors!

Goaltenders (3)
Rihards Babulis
Nikita Quapp
Simon Wolf

Defencemen (7)
Rayan Bettahar
Philipp Bidoul
Nils Elten
Adrian Klein
Phillip Sinn
Leon van der Linde
Julian Waser

Forwards (13)
Quirin Bader
Ryan Del Monte
Luca Hauf
Nikolaus Heigl
Thomas Heigl
Eric Hordler
Roman Kechter
Philipp Krening
Julian Lutz
Veit Oswald
Yannick Proske
Bennet Rossmy
Robin van Calster

Germany will open their 2023 World Junior schedule on December 27th against Sweden. They'll then face Canada on December 28th, Austria on December 30th and will wrap up the preliminary round on December 31st against Czechia.

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