The men's national team was back on the ice for their last full day of practice before their game against Slovenia.
During the morning 100 minute session as we have seen all season the roster was split into two groups as half was on the ice the other half was doing conditioning drills, after 45 minutes the two groups switched.
In the afternoon all available players were on the with only János Hári and the two players whose clubs teams are still in action, Csanád Erdély and János Vas were missing Head coach Rich Chernomaz worked out Dániel Kóger seperately.
Andrew Sarauer: We will get back to playing our game since they are a good team, we need to take our own end first and then the attacking end. We have a lot of guys still competing for spots on the team. Rich and the staff have been working on a good game plan.
Dániel I think we will really attack the Slovenians since we are on the top both mentally and physically
Rich Chernomaz: I think the guys have been going great and not really showing any fatigue. Today we worked on a lot of transitional attack drills,after getting our defensive end down now we have moved on to improving our attacking game. I have really liked how the guys have been concentrating and playing focused and the guys have doing what has been asked of them. We hope to have a clearer picture of the team after tomorrow's game.
Tamás Sárpátki: We have some tough practices behind us but that doesn't mean we are tired, we have a hard game in front of us but we will compete.
Game day roster
Goalies (2): Hetényi, Vay
Defencemen (8): Garát, Kiss, Mestyán, Orbán, Pozsgai, Szirányi, M.Vas, Wehrs
Forwards (14): Banham, Bartalis, Benk, Csányi, Galló, Kovács, Könczei, Magosi, Sarauer, Sárpátki, Sebők, Sikorcin, Sofron, Somogyi
Photo: László Mudra
ROSTER
Goalies (4): BÁLIZS Bence (MAC Budapest), HETÉNYI Zoltán, RAJNA Miklós (Fehérvár AV19), VAY Ádám (Debreceni HK)
Defencemen (13): ORBÁN Attila, SZIRÁNYI Bence, VARGA Arnold, WEHRS Kevin (Fehérvár), KISS Dániel (UTE), GARÁT Zsombor, MESTYÁN István, POZSGAI Tamás, STIPSICZ Bence (MAC), DUDÁS Jesse, GŐZ Balázs, SAGERT Kalvin, (DVTK), VAS Márton (Fassa)
Forwards (22): BANHAM Frank, BARTALIS István, BENK András, KOVÁCS Csaba, KÓGER Dániel, NAGY Gergő, REISZ Áron, SARAUER Andrew, SÁRPÁTKI Tamás, SIKORCIN Ladislav (Fehérvár), CSÁNYI Karol (UTE), ERDÉLY Csanád (Sioux Falls), SOMOGYI Balázs (DVTK), GALLÓ Vilmos (Linköping), HÁRI János (Leksand), KÖNCZEI Áron (Debrecen), MAGOSI Bálint (Briancon), NAGY Krisztián, TERBÓCS István (MAC), SEBŐK Balázs (KalPa), SOFRON István (Klagenfurt), VAS János (Slavia Praha)
SPRING SCHEDULE
Exhibition games
April 15th, Friday, 18.00 (Budapest): Hungary-Austria 4-0
April 16th, Saturday, 16.30 (Vienna): Austria-Hungary 1-3
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)