Nice? Nico Sturm had to smile. “It won’t be a nice event,” said the German national striker before the quarter-finals of the Ice Hockey World Championship on Thursday against Switzerland (4:20 p.m./live on Pro7 and Magentasport). “It will be a fight, it will be an unpleasant affair,” Sturm was sure before the duel in the Czech city of Ostrava. As it always is when the eternal rivals meet. Then there will be hard work and beating, checking and shouting, and the players won’t even avoid each other during breaks.
