Head coach Rich Chernomaz has announced his roster for the upcoming Olympic Qualifying Tournament that will be taking place between February 11th through the 14th.
During the tournament Hungary will be taking on Poland, Estonia and Lithuania with the winner moving on to the next round. This is the first time the the national team is playing in front of a home crowd since winning promotion to the A-Pool last April.
The team will be opening up camp at the Tüskecsarnok on the 8th with the roster cuts coming on the 10th with the team moving on to the László Papp Budapest Sports Arena.
The roster is made up of 33 players with Bence Stipsicz and Márk Szaller being called into the national team for the first time with Vilmos Galló also never playing a game. There have been players from five different Hungarian teams called into the national team.
One player missing form the squad is Viktor Tokaji who has deceided to hang up the national team jersey, more information about his decision can be found here.
The Hungarian Squad
Goalies (3): BÁLIZS Bence (MAC Budapest), HETÉNYI Zoltán, RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19)
Defencemen (11): ORBÁN Attila, SZABÓ Dániel, SZIRÁNYI Bence, SZALLER Márk, VARGA Arnold (Fehérvár AV19) KISS Dániel (Újpest), MESTYÁN István, POZSGAI Tamás STIPSICZ Bence (MAC), GŐZ Balázs (DVTK) VAS Márton (Fassa, Seria A)
Forwards (19): 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), MAGOSI Bálint (Briancon, France), 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, Viktor Tokaji
Goalie Coach: Gary Clark
Program
2016. February 11th
16.00: Poland–Estonia
19.30: Hungary–Lithuania
2016. February 12th
14.30: Poland–Lithuania
18.00: Hungary–Estonia
2016. February 14th
14.30: Estonia–Lithuania
18.00: Hungary–Poland