Who is affected?
Unfortunately, women are affected more often than men. Unsurprisingly, older people are generally more frequently affected. However, osteoarthritis can appear or begin to develop in early middle age. Sports injuries, obesity or incorrect strain can also trigger arthrosis, this is referred to as secondary arthrosis. Rough estimates assume that almost 5 million people in Germany suffer from osteoarthritis. In Austria, this number should be proportionately similar. The “widespread disease” affects hundreds of thousands of people in this country, some unnoticed, some on the other hand through massive joint pain.
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Gawanke ended the dry spell and Wissmann continued to score
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
Each week, NHL.com/de looks back on notable performances by German-speaking draft players and emerging developments in the AHL, ECHL, and junior hockey. This week the games from January 14 to 20, 2023.
For Leon Gawanke and the Manitoba Moose, the balance was quite positive this week. There were two wins from three games. Only once morest the Chicago Wolves did they lose 6-2 on Friday. The Moose had previously won 2-0 once morest Chicago and 4-2 once morest the Belleville Senators. Gawanke ended his lull of six pointless games in the first game of the week with an assist to make it 1-0 once morest the Senators. In the defeat once morest the Wolves he scored the interim connection to 1:2.
The Providence Bruins can continue to look forward to a good development from Kai Wissmann. The defenseman faced the Hartford Wolf Pack in two of the Bruins’ three games. In the first encounter, a 1:3 defeat, he remained without a point. In the third game he managed an assist in a 5-3 away win. He scored three of his nine points of the season (1 goal, 8 assists) in the last four games.
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The Swiss goalkeeper Akira Schmid once more presented himself with good performances at the Utica Comets. The Comets suffered two losses once morest the Syracuse Crunch last week (5-1 and 2-0) and celebrated a 5-1 win over the Bridgeport Islanders. Schmid stood between the posts at 0:2 and saved 20 shots, but offered a secure backing in the only win with 33 saves. In both appearances together he had a catch rate of 94.6 percent.
Marco Rossi enjoyed two wins in two games with the Iowa Wild. There was a 2-1 win following a penalty shoot-out once morest the Grand Rapid Griffins. In the 3-2 victory following extra time once morest the Milwaukee Admirals, the Austrian prepared the 2-1 lead and the decisive goal in extra time. His 18 points (5 goals, 13 assists) make him the team’s sixth-best scorer despite playing just 19 of 37 games with the Minnesota Wild due to his NHL appearances.
Lukas Reichel returned to the Rockford IceHogs following three more NHL appearances for the Chicago Blackhawks. But there was little to celebrate there. The IceHogs lost all three games in the observation period with a goal difference of 5:15. Reichel contributed an assist and had a plus-minus record of -1. Despite receiving multiple calls to Chicago this season, Reichel remains Rockford’s third-best scorer, second-best assist and third-best scorer with 37 points (14 goals, 23 assists).
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Bad Nauheim winger Julian Napravnik is still waiting for his next assignment with the Hershey Bears. He last played on December 28th. He scored one goal in nine games this season for the Bears.
Other talents from the DACH region to watch out for:
In the East Coast Hockey League, the Florida Everblades with German defenseman Lukas Kälble managed a record of 3-0-1 in four games. The man from Mannheim recorded two assists and a plus-minus balance of +4. He is the team’s second best defender with 17 points (3 goals, 14 assists).
Austria’s Vinzenz Rohrer and Switzerland’s Brian Zanetti did not play in the Ontario Hockey League. Rohrer was injured on January 11 during a game once morest the Kingston Frontenacs. Zanetti last played in a game for the Peterborough Petes on December 11. Nevertheless, there is exciting news for the defender: he has signed a contract with the SCL Tigers in the National League and will be active in Langnau from next season.
Forward Håkon Hänelt remains out of the Gatineau Olympics in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with a foot injury.
Switzerland conceded their first defeat at the U20 World Cup
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
24 hours following their resounding victory once morest Germany, the Canadian U20 selection at the IIHF Junior World Championship 2023 in Halifax and Moncton on Thursday also defeated the representation from Austria by double digits. The Swiss juniors had to bow to the USA.
USA – Switzerland 5:1 (1:0/3:1/1:0)
After beating Finland in overtime and Latvia in a penalty shoot-out, Switzerland found their champion in the USA at Moncton’s Avenir Centre. The US boys proved to be the more mature team and achieved a goal shot ratio of 42:19 over the 60 minutes. For a good 18 minutes, Swiss goalie Alessio Beglieri was the terminus for the USA’s attacking efforts, then they gave Jimmy Snuggerud a 1-0 lead with his first of two goals.
The Americans made the preliminary decision in the middle third when they consistently used their power play situations through Logan Cooley and Snuggerud. Tyler Boucher increased it to 4:0 118 seconds before the end of the period. With 28 seconds left in the half, captain Attilio Biasca’s consolation goal spoiled US goalkeeper Trey Augustine’s shutout ambitions. Luke Hughes finished the game in the 54th minute.
“We didn’t stick to our game plan. We weren’t disciplined and we took way too many penalties. You just can’t do that once morest a good team like this. You have to be disciplined and stay out of the box, but we got out of it learned for the rest of the tournament,” Biasca summed up the game.
Both teams are already qualified for the quarterfinals. The USA meets Finland on New Year’s Eve and Switzerland meets Slovakia in the final group game.
Austria – Canada 0:11 (0:3/0:4/0:4)
The Austrian juniors still have to wait for their first tournament goal. In a one-sided game, they clearly lost to Canada at Halifax’s Scotiabank Centre. From the first minute, the Canadians put enormous pressure on the Austrian goalkeeper Benedikt Oschgan, but it was not until the 15th minute that he had to admit defeat for the first time by Dylan Guenther with a majority.
Then it went in quick succession: Zach Dean, Shane Wright, Joshua Roy, Connor Bedard and Nolan Allan increased to 6:0 when just 25:35 minutes had been completed. Logan Stankoven made it 7-0 before the second break.
The Canadians didn’t give up in the final section either: Adam Fantilli, two Tyson Hinds, Nathan Gaucher and Bedard still wanted to score.
The Canadians will play Sweden for first place in Group A on New Year’s Eve, while bottom-placed Austria play Germany on Friday.
Sweden – Czech Republic 3:2 aet (0:0/2:1/0:1/1:0)
An unblemished record of two wins from two games each saw Sweden and Czech juniors ahead of their clash at Halifax’s Scotiabank Centre. The teams also met on an equal footing in this game, which the Scandinavians won in overtime with a goal from Ludvig Jansson.
The opponents showed a lot of respect for each other from the start, started very disciplined and initially focused on preventing goals. Which they managed to do until the first break. In the second half, the game picked up speed with three goals in just under four minutes. David Jiricek inflicted Sweden’s first goal of the tournament and gave the Czech Republic a 1-0 lead. But at the same time as the goal, Ales Cech received a 2-minute penalty and shortly following this overnumber situation had expired, Fabian Wagner made it 1:1. The Czech team looked stunned and 90 seconds following equalizing, Jansson put Sweden in front for the first time with his first goal of the game. In the period that followed up to the end of the third, both teams were unable to capitalize on two power plays each.
In the final section, the Czech Republic had a lot more of the game and pushed for the 2:2, which Jiri Tichacek managed just under six minutes before the end of regular time. However, the Swedes had the happier end on their side.
Sweden meets Canada and the Czech Republic meets Germany in the final group game on New Year’s Eve.
Latvia 0-3 Finland (0-1/0-1/0-1)
A 3-0 win over Latvia at Moncton’s Avenir Center and seven points from three appearances gave the Finnish juniors their shot at first place in Group A. Jani Lampinen kept his goal clean with 31 saves and brought in the dedicated ones Latvians almost to desperation. Once once more, the Latvians’ weakness in the end turned out to be their biggest shortcoming in this tournament.
The favored Finns dealt with their chances to score much more effectively. Evenly distributed over the three sections of the game, Jani Nyman, Niko Huuhtanen and Konsta Kapanen scored the goals to win with a goal that was now orphaned. Latvia goalkeeper Patriks Berzins made 26 saves.
Bottom-bottomed Latvia have a point from three games and will need a win in the last group game once morest Slovakia on Friday to hold a chance of a place in the quarter-finals.
The German national team narrowly lost out in their first game at the 2023 Junior World Championships in Canada. In Group A they lost 1-0 to Sweden following a sacrificial battle at the Scotiabank Center in Halifax. In the following game, Austria experienced another debacle in this tournament in a 9-0 loss to the Czech Republic. In Group B at the Avenir Center in Moncton, Finland first beat Slovakia 5-2. Switzerland then won 3-2 pts once morest Latvia.
Germany 0-1 Sweden (0-1/0-0/0-0)
The German national team narrowly lost out in their first game at the 2023 Junior World Championships in Canada. In Group A they lost 1-0 to Sweden following a sacrificial battle at the Scotiabank Center in Halifax. In the following game, Austria experienced another debacle in this tournament in a 9-0 loss to the Czech Republic. In Group B at the Avenir Center in Moncton, Finland first beat Slovakia 5-2. Switzerland then won 3-2 pts once morest Latvia.
The DEB juniors defied the Swedes over long stretches. With a bit of luck in the end, they might have caused a surprise. The only goal of the encounter came from Adam Engstrom in the final minute of the first period. His deflected shot slipped through the pads of the otherwise excellent goalkeeper Nikita Quapp to make it 0:1.
Before the Swedes conceded, the Germans had good chances through Julian Lutz, Nikolaus Heigl and Veit Oswald. But they found their match in Sweden’s goalie Carl Lindbom.
In the second round, the Scandinavians shifted up a few gears and made the German team’s defense work up a sweat. But the defense withstood the pressure. This was not least due to the fact that Quapp surpassed himself during this phase. Among other things, he stopped a slap shot by Liam Ohgren and a penalty shot by Fabian Lysell. Even when the Swedes were briefly 5-on-3 outnumbered, the German keeper proved to be a tower in the battle. At the end of the game he had 43 saves and a catch rate of 97.7 percent.
In the third period, the protégés of national coach Tobias Abstreiter managed to shift the game back into the opposing zone. Philipp Bidoul and Robin van Calster had the best chances to score for Germany. However, Lindbom was on the post both times and prevented the equalizer.
“The team implemented the things we set out to do very well,” summed up a satisfied contestant. “We gave ourselves a chance to win the game once morest Sweden in the opening game. It was a very close game and in the end we had the momentum, as the saying goes, on our side. Unfortunately, we mightn’t thank ourselves for the self-sacrificing effort and not rewarding the passion that we brought. But I think we can build on that for the next games.”
Switzerland – Latvia 3:2 SO (1:1/0:1/1:0/0:0/1:0)
Second World Cup game, second win in the extra shift: the Swiss juniors are well on the way to the quarter-finals following beating the Latvians 3-2 following penalties. However, a lot of hard work was necessary before success was certain.
The Swiss took a 1-0 lead through Louis Robin (9th). But the Latvians were unimpressed and turned the match around until the second break. Dans Lomelis (14th) and Darels Dukurs (38th) shot out the 2:1 advantage. In the final section, the Swiss threw everything forward to at least equalize in regular time. At times the Latvians had great difficulty breaking free from the grip. But their defensive bulwark lasted a long time. In the final phase, Switzerland was rewarded for their tireless approach. Rodwin Dionicio scored the acclaimed goal to make it 2-2 (59th).
The two opponents did not score in extra time, so the decision had to be made in a penalty shootout. Switzerland had the better end for itself. Attilio Biasco and Liekit Reichle converted their solo runs while only Lomelis was successful on the other side.
Austria – Czech Republic 0:9 (0:3/0:4/0:2)
The Austrian team had little to oppose the Czechs and was just able to prevent a double-digit defeat, which would have been the second at the start of the World Cup. The 29th attempt by an Austrian junior squad to win a World Cup game in the top group also failed.
The Czech Republic’s outstanding attacker was Jiri Kulich, who scored a hat-trick. Gabriel Szturc was hardly inferior to him with a brace. The remaining goals went to Jakub Brabenec, Petr Hauser, Ales Czech and David Spacek. Matyas Sapovaliv shone with four assists. The goal shot ratio of 47:8 shows the superiority of the winner.
Austria’s attacker Vinzenz Rohrer sees the mental attitude as the main reason for the two bankruptcies once morest the Czech Republic and Sweden (0:11). “It’s definitely a mental thing. We can’t be so scared and just focused on our opponents,” he said.
Finland 5-2 Slovakia (1-1/3-0/1-1)
The end result deceives a bit regarding the course of the game. Except for the second third, the Slovaks were able to balance the game once morest the favored Finns. The goal shot ratio of 24:23 following 60 minutes in favor of Slovakia is also evidence of this. But the team from Finland presented themselves more determined and accurate.
Above all, captain Oliver Kapanen and Joakim Kemell acted much more obligingly on the offensive this time than in the unexpected defeat in the opening match once morest Switzerland (2:3 aet). Both attackers entered the score sheet with a goal and an assist. Sami Paivarinta, Jani Nyman and Brad Lambert were responsible for the other goals for the Finns. Peter Repcik put together a brace for the Slovaks.
Both starting goalkeepers made their debuts at the Junior World Cup. Jani Lampinen’s goal in the Finnish box was significantly more successful than Patrik Andrisik’s on the other side. The Slovakian goalkeeper had to give up eleven shots following conceding the fourth goal in the second period. He was replaced by Matej Marinov, who later only allowed one goal.