U19: Preparation for Next season’s World Championships

This U19 roster is made up of exclusively players born in 1999. This is the first steps in preparation for the 2018 Division 1/B World Championships. There have been 3 goalies, 7 defencemen and 13 forwards called into camp. Unfortunately a number of players who have been called in as well as some of the alternatives had to turn down the invite for various reasons.

Defensemen Gábor Bugár, Tamás Kiss and Gábor Türmer along with forwards Bálint Horváth, Bence Korchma and Brúnó Kriesz will not be in camp. Replacing them are Máté Futó, Ferenc Simotics, Ákos Horváth and Balázs Verba.

The team will have one 75 minute practice session both on Tuesday and one on Wednesday with the tournament starting on Thursday. On every day the team will have game day skate with a game being played in the afternoon.

Hungary will face France at 19:00 on Thursday, with a game against Norway on Friday at 19:00 as well. The tournament will close out with a game on Saturday against Austria at 12:30.

Dávid Kiss, assistant coach: These group of guys have grown out of the U18 age group and next season they will be second season junior players next year, they will have a chance to show what they can do. The bottom half of the team is preparing for the U18 World Championships. This a good chance to show what they can do and not be inactive until next August. We are not really looking at the opponents but we are concentrating on our own work. We want to concentrate on our own game.