World Cham­pi­onship warm-up block­buster against Canada completely sold out – auto­graph session on Friday!

Head Coach Roger Bader and his coaching staff have been preparing Austria's World Championship players since Wednesday for the season's ice hockey highlight – the 2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Prague.

The task now is to put the finishing touches in place for the World Championship games in Group A. Before the World Championship adventure in the Czech Republic gets under way against Denmark on Saturday, 11 May 2024, Red-White-Red face world champions Canada in their final warm-up game on Sunday. Both teams are fully focused on Sunday's game, which is why neither Canada's training sessions nor Austria's practices are open to the public.

Before the major ice hockey celebration gets under way at the Steffl Arena, which has been completely sold out for days, on Sunday at 19:00, there will be at Westfield Donau Zentrum on Friday from 16:00 to 18:00, two autograph sessions with the ÖEHV players Dominique Heinrich, Bernd Wolf, Clemens Unterweger, Lukas Haudum from 16:00 to 17:00, as well as Steven Strong, Kilian Zündel, Dominic Zwerger and Benjamin Baumgartner from 17:00 to 18:00.

ÖEHV autograph session:

When:Friday, 3 May 2024, 16:00–18:00
Where:Westfield Donau Zentrum, Wagramer Str. 94, 1220 Vienna – by the Regenwald Apotheke

16:00: Dominique Heinrich, Bernd Wolf, Clemens Unterweger and Lukas Haudum
17:00: Steven Strong, Kilian Zündel, Dominic Zwerger and Benjamin Baumgartner

Men's World Championship preparation

Austria vs. Canada
Sun, 5 May 2024, 19:00, Vienna, live on ORF SPORT +

Already played:

Latvia vs. Austria 3:2 after a penalty shootout (0:1,1:0,1:1)
Thu, 4 April 2024, 18:00 (CEST), Riga (LAT)
Austria goalscorers: Leon Wallner (16'), Julian Metzler (43')
Latvia goalscorers: Feliks Egils Gavars (26'), Dans Locmelis (46')

Latvia vs. Austria 3:2 after a penalty shootout (1:0,1:2,0:0,0:0)
Fri, 5 April 2024, 18:00 (CEST), Riga (LAT)
Austria goalscorers: Nico Feldner (31'), Ian Scherzer (36')
Latvia goalscorers: Martins Lavins (11'), Haralds Egle (34')

Slovenia vs. Austria 5:2 (3:0,1:1,1:1)
Thu, 11 April 2024, 19:00, Ljubljana (SLO)
Slovenia scorers: Ken Ograjenšek (2'), Nik Simšič (8'), Anže Kuralt (12'), Jan Drozg (34'), Žan Jezovšek (58')
Austria scorers: Nico Brunner (39'/PP1), Senna Peeters (47')

Austria vs Slovenia 0:6 (0:0,0:4,0:2)
Fri, 12 April 2024, 18:00, Villach
Slovenia scorers: Matic Podlipnik (21'/PP1), Anže Kuralt (32'/PP1, 34'/PP1, 37'), Jan Drozg (44'), Ken Ograjenšek (52')

Czech Republic vs Austria 5:1 (2:0,1:1,2:0)
Thu, 18 April 2024, 17:10, Budweis (CZE)
Czech Republic scorers: Adam Kubík (3'/PP1), Andrej Šustr (18'), Jakub Galvas (25'), Jiří Černoch (51'), Michael Špaček (53')
Austria scorer: Benjamin Baumgartner (29')

Austria vs Czech Republic 2:3 (1:1,0:2,1:0)
Sat, 20 April 2024, 18:00, Linz
Austria scorers: Nico Feldner (14'), Leon Wallner (58')
Czech Republic scorers: Daniel Gazda (18'), Jakub Rychlovský (25'/PP1, 30')

Germany vs Austria 4:2 (2:1,0:1,2:0)
Thu, 25 April 2024, 19:00, Garmisch-Partenkirchen (GER)
Germany scorers: Marc Michaelis (8th, 11th), Daniel Fischbuch (50th), Parker Tuomie (52th/PP1)
Austria goalscorers: Benjamin Baumgartner (16th), Lukas Kainz (38th)

Austria vs. Germany 2:1 after a penalty shoot-out (0:1,0:0,1:0,0:0,1:0)
Sat., 27 April 2024, 16:15, Zell am See, KE KELIT Arena, 2.600 (sold out)
Austria goalscorers: Dominic Zwerger (56th), Emilio Romig (65th/decisive penalty) – Lukas Haudum also scored in the shoot-out.
Germany goalscorer: Wojciech Stachowiak (7th)

2024 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship

10–26 May 2024
Hosts: Czechia
Group A – Prague: Canada, Finland, Switzerland, Czechia, Denmark, Norway, Austria, Great Britain
Group B – Ostrava: USA, Germany, Sweden, Slovakia, Latvia, France, Kazakhstan, Poland

Schedule:

Austria vs. Denmark
Sat., 11 May 2024, 16:20, live on ORF 1

Austria vs. Switzerland
Sun., 12 May 2024, 20:20, live on ORF SPORT +

Canada vs. Austria
Tue, 14 May 2024, 20:20, live on ORF SPORT +

Finland vs. Austria
Thu, 16 May 2024, 16:20, live on ORF SPORT +

Czechia vs. Austria
Fri, 17 May 2024, 20:20, live on ORF SPORT +

Norway vs. Austria
Sun, 19 May 2024, 16:20, live on ORF SPORT +

Austria vs. Great Britain
Tue, 21 May 2024, 12:20, live on ORF SPORT +