Rich Chernomaz and the men's national team opened up training camp for the upcoming Olympic Qualifying tournament on Monday at the Tüskecsarnok.
The national team assembled at the Tüskecsarnok at 15.00 Monday afternoon and hit the ice for a 95 minute game simulation practice session where the coaching staff was trying out line comingantions and defensive pairings.
One thing that coach Chernomaz did mention was that neither Arnold Varga or Attila Orbán will be on the final roster because of their injuries.
Chernomaz also talked about the younger guys on the roster. “I haven't seen some of the guys for a while, i was really looking for the strength and the skating of the younger ones compared to the older guys, i liked what i saw from someone like Stipsicz, he blended in really nicely.
You can't push young guys to push them into positions that they are not getting ready for but he's getting there. he has a good chance if he plays like this the rest of the way.
Tomorrow we will do what we did today with a scrimmage in the morning and make some cuts and to a walk through in the afternoon.”
The Hungarian Squad
Goalies (3): BÁLIZS Bence (MAC Budapest), HETÉNYI Zoltán, RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19)
Defencemen (9): SZABÓ Dániel, SZIRÁNYI Bence, SZALLER Márk (Fehérvár AV19) KISS Dániel (Újpest), MESTYÁN István, POZSGAI Tamás STIPSICZ Bence (MAC), GŐZ Balázs (DVTK) VAS Márton (Fassa, Seria A)
Forwards (18): BANHAM Frank, BARTALIS István, BENK András, KOVÁCS Csaba, KÓGER Dániel, NAGY Gergő, SÁRPÁTKI Tamás, SARAUER Andrew SIKORCIN Ladislav, VINCZE Péter (Fehérvár AV19), SOMOGYI Balázs, (DVTK), KÖNCZEI Áron (Debrecen), NAGY Krisztián (MAC), SEBŐK Balázs (KalPa, Liiga), SOFRON István (Klagenfürt, EBEL) HÁRI János (Leksand, Eliteserien), GALLÓ Vilmos (Linköpings SHL), VAS János (Slavia Praha, CZE2)
Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Rich Chernomaz
Assistant Coaches: Diego Scandella, Gergely Majoross, Tamás Sille
Goalie Coach: Gary Clark
Program
2016. February 11th
16.00: Poland–Estonia
19.30: Hungary–Lithuania
2016. February 12th
14.30: Poland–Lithuania
19.30: Hungary–Estonia
2016. February 14th
14.30: Estonia–Lithuania
18.00: Hungary–Poland