Rich Chernomaz and his coaching staff have set the final roster for this weekends Olympic Qualifying Tournament against Lithuania, Estonia and Poland.
The is made up of two goalies, twenty skaters and one emergency goalie who will be activated in case of an injury of the other two. Not makin the cut was defensmen Dániel Stabó and Márk Szaller along with forwards Tamás Sárpátki, Ladislav Sikorcin, Balázs Somogyi and Vilmos Galló. Balázs Sebők is not a hundered percent, as a back up plan they are taking 14 forwards with one more being cut before the opening game.
Making their senior national team debut on Thursday will be the young defensmen Bence Stipsicz, also playing in their first senior IIHF event will be István Mestyán and Áron Könczei.
The Hungarian Squad
Goalies (3): BÁLIZS Bence (MAC Budapest), HETÉNYI Zoltán, RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19)
Defencemen (7): SZIRÁNYI Bence (Fehérvár AV19) KISS Dániel (Újpest), MESTYÁN István, POZSGAI Tamás STIPSICZ Bence (MAC), GŐZ Balázs (DVTK) VAS Márton (Fassa, Seria A)
Forwards (14): BANHAM Frank, BARTALIS István, BENK András, KOVÁCS Csaba, KÓGER Dániel, NAGY Gergő, SARAUER Andrew VINCZE Péter (Fehérvár AV19), KÖNCZEI Áron (Debrecen), NAGY Krisztián (MAC), SEBŐK Balázs (KalPa, Liiga), SOFRON István (Klagenfürt, EBEL) HÁRI János (Leksand, Eliteserien), VAS János (Slavia Praha, CZE2)
Coaching Staff
Head Coach: Rich Chernomaz
Assistant Coaches: 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
19.30: Hungary–Estonia
2016. February 14th
14.30: Estonia–Lithuania
18.00: Hungary–Poland