A total of 78 Hungarian hockey players are expected to invade the Tüskecsarnok on April 5th when the national team opens its training camp for the upcoming World Championships.
Hungarian National team head coach Rich Chernomaz and hi staff has named their training camp roster that has 9 goalies, 26 defenseman and 43 forwards with every Hungarian club represented. There are potential 20 players that could be making their senior national team debut during any of the five international friendly matches. There are a number of young players in the squad as well with 14 of this years U20 world championship roster also making it.
The camp will open on April 5th with the roster being split into 4 teams. Scrimmages will be played throughout the week with a possible cut at the weekend. However, there are still a couple of players on the injured list and others competing abroad so the actual number of players present may vary.
The long series of exhibition games at the Tüskecsarnok, called Hokimaraton, will start on April 15th against Austria, then the Hungarian national team will play Slovenia on the 20th, Kazakhstan on the 29th and Russia's B team on the 30th. The bonus to this series will be tha game between Kazakhstan and the Russia's B team.
Team Hungary will travel to St. Petersburg on May 5th.
THE ROSTER
Goalies (9): ARANY Gergely, BÁLIZS Bence (MAC Budapest), DUSCHEK Dávid (Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák), GYENES Dávid, KISS Bence (DVTK-Jegesmedvék), HETÉNYI Zoltán, RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19), PLESZKÁN József (UTE), VAY Ádám (Debreceni HK)
Defencemen (26): ARANY Máté, LÁDAY Tamás, ORBÁN Attila, REITER Attila, SZABÓ Dániel, SZALLER Márk, SZIRÁNYI Bence, VARGA Arnold, VOKLA Roland, WEHRS Kevin (Fehérvár), DÓSA Krisztián, KISS Dániel (UTE), GARÁT Zsombor, HERNER Olivér, JÁSZAI Dávid, MESTYÁN István, NAGY Patrik, POZSGAI Tamás, STIPSICZ Bence (MAC), DUDÁS Jesse, GŐZ Balázs, SAGERT Kalvin, VOJTKÓ Mátyás, (DVTK), VAS Márton (Fassa, Italian, Serie A), ERDÉLYI Tamás (Ferencváros Bp. ESMTK), HRUBY Gellért (Dunaújváros)
Forwards (43): BANHAM Frank, BARTALIS István, BENK András, KOCSIS Ferenc, KOVÁCS Csaba, KÓGER Dániel, NAGY Gergő, REISZ Áron, SARAUER Andrew, SÁRPÁTKI Tamás, SIKORCIN Ladislav, SZABÓ Krisztián, VINCZE Péter (Fehérvár), CSÁNYI Karol, GÁGYOR Péter, NEMES Benjámin, TURBUCZ Martin, VIRÁG Tamás (UTE), ERDÉLY Csanád (Sioux Falls, American, USHL), GALANISZ Nikandrosz, HAJÓS Roland, MISKOLCZI Márk, PAVUK Attila, SOMOGYI Balázs, TÓTH Adrián (DVTK), GALLÓ Vilmos (Linköping, svéd), HÁRI János (Leksand, Swedish, Allsvenskan), HÁRI Norbert, KÖNCZEI Áron, VINCZE Péter Tamás (Debrecen), KERESZTURY Erik (Düsseldorf, German, DEL), KISS Zsombor (Davos, Swiss, NLA), MAGOSI Bálint (Briancon, French, Ligue Magnus), NAGY Krisztián, NÉMETH Attila, ROCZANOV Dezső, SCHMÁL Kristóf, TERBÓCS István, TÓTH Richárd (MAC), SÁGI Martin (Feldkirch, Austrian, INL), SEBŐK Balázs (KalPa, Finnish, Liiga), SOFRON István (Klagenfurt, Austrian, EBEL), VAS János (Slavia Praha, Czech, WSM Liga)
STAFF
Head coach: Rich Chernomaz
Coaches: Majoross Gergely, Diego Scandella, Sille Tamás, Tokaji Viktor
Goalie coach: Gary Clark
Strength and conditioning coach: Puskás Sándor
GM: Nagy Attila
Team Leader: Imre Lajos
Doctor: Majzik Ernő
Pyhsio: Bagonya Imre, Sashalmi Tamás
Equipment managers: Nagy József, Tornyi Gábor
SPRING SCHEDULE
Exibition games
April 15th, Friday, 18.00 (Budapest): v Austria
April 16th, Saturday, 16.30 (Vienna): @Austria
April 20th Wednesday, 19.00 (Budapest): v Slovenia
April 29th, Friday, 19.00 (Budapest): v Kazakhstan
April 30th, Saturday, 19.00 (Budapest): v Russia B
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS, RUSSIA
Group B (St. Petersburg)
May 7th, Saturday, 12.15 (11.15): v Slovakia
May 8th, Sunday, 12.15 (11.15): v Canada
May 10th, Tuesday, 20.15 (19.15): v France
May 11th, Wednesday, 20.15 (19.15): v Finland
May 13th, Friday, 16.15 (15.15): v USA
May 14th, Saturday, 16.15 (15.15): v Belarus
May 16th, Monday, 20.15 (19.15): v Germany
(CET)
Photo: László Mudra