Sheffield Steelers' Ben O'Connor can't wait to pit his skills against world's best
He’s involved in Great Britain’s Coventry training camp as preparations continue for next week’s World Championship in Budapest.
A 28-man squad is undergoing two on-ice sessions a day ahead of two matches with Lithuania this weekend. The sides meet in Milton Keynes tonight (7pm) before going head-to-head in Coventry tomorrow (5:15pm).
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Hide AdThe squad will then be cut to a 23-man roster for the Division I Group A tournament in Hungary. “Every GB training camp is always in intense but this one feels even more so,” said O’Connor.
“The carrot being dangled is a place at a second-tier World Championship playing some of the best nations in the world.
“There’s a fantastic atmosphere around the camp and it is great to back with the GB boys” he said.
GB’s World Championship campaign gets under way in Budapest a week on Sunday against Slovenia.
They will also face Kazakhstan, Poland, Italy and Hungary, with the best two teams being promoted to the top flight of the World Championship.