In the early morning of April 27, Beijing time, in the 2022 World Men's Ice Hockey Championships Division B Group A match held in Croatia, the First Match of the Chinese Men's Ice Hockey National Team, which aims to win the championship, won the opening of the World Championships.
The competition was held in Zagreb, croatia, from April 26 to 30 local time, with a total of five teams participating from China, Israel, Croatia, Spain and the Netherlands. The Chinese team at this World Championship is based on the original team of the Beijing Winter Olympics squad, and all the main players are together, and they are determined to promote the group.
Israel's team ranked the lowest in the world in this group, only 4 minutes after the first quarter of the game, Fu Shuai, who scored the first goal of the Chinese Men's Ice Winter Olympics, scored two goals in a row to make a fantastic start for the Chinese team. Then the Chinese team firmly controlled the course of the game, and Sprawl and Fu will add to the icing on the cake for the rest of the quarter, and the Chinese team will lead 4-0 in the first quarter. In the second quarter, Fu Shuai completed a hat-trick in the 25th minute of the game, Yan Juncheng scored two goals in a row in 1 minute, Kelios and Jian'an also scored their debut goals at the World Championships, and the Chinese team played 5-0 in the single quarter. Luo Jia, known as the "little prince of the ball", and Shen Jialei, who missed the Winter Olympics due to injury, continued to widen the point gap for the Chinese team in the third quarter. In the 53rd minute, Israel finally won a point by Ilya Spector. In the final time of the game, the Chinese team did not relax in the slightest, Luo Jia scored his second goal, and Yan Juncheng completed the senior year and became the single-game goalscorer king of the Chinese team. The Chinese team successfully made a good start.
On April 27, local time, the Chinese team will face the strongest opponent of this World Championship - the world's 29th-ranked veteran team, the Netherlands. Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's men's ice ranked after the Dutch team, but after the baptism of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the world ranking of Chinese men's ice rose by 5 places to 27. The morale of the Chinese team is high, and the Dutch team is also threatening, and this game will become a key battle to determine whether the Chinese team can win the championship and promote the group.