IIHF - How Scott Walker builds the team

The team around Bundestrainer Harold Kreis is complete for the final phase of preparation for the 2025 IIHF World Championship in Denmark and Sweden. On late Thursday evening the players from Berlin and also Maksymilian Szuber (from the USA) came to the team. Friday and also this Saturday morning were characterized by intensive training sessions and team meetings. Also the opponent of the German team, Team USA, arrived yesterday Friday morning i…

IIHF - How Scott Walker builds the team

Scott Walker played 16 years in the NHL. He played for Canada at three World Championships, and after retiring he became coach and later general manager in the OHL, principally with the Guelph Storm. He knows how the game works in every way, so when he was hired as the general manager for Team Canada’s U18 entry in Frisco on 12 April, eleven days before the start of the tournament, he wasn’t going to panic.  Assemble a gold-medal quality team i…