Will there be a mega surprise in the German Ice Hockey League?
The top favorite Red Bull Munich sensationally threatens to end early in the playoffs.
After the 1: 3 home defeat at the beginning, the main round winner also lost the second quarterfinals at the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven with 2: 3 (0: 0, 2: 1, 0: 2) and is in the series “best of seven” with 0 :2 back.
On Sunday (3.15 p.m.) the team of DEL record coach Don Jackson has home advantage again.
Goals from Filip Varejcka (37′) and Austin Ortega (40′) gave Munich a 2-1 lead at the start of the final period. But Antti Tyrväinen (45th) and Phillip Bruggisser (49th) turned the game in favor of the bottom of the table.
Second in the table, ERC Ingolstadt, on the other hand, took a big step towards the semi-finals with a 3-1 (1-0, 0-0, 2-1) win at Düsseldorfer EG. The 2014 champions are still two wins short of progressing.
Leon Hüttl (12th) and Mathew Bodie (53rd) gave Ingolstadt a 2-0 lead in front of 9,839 spectators in Düsseldorf. The goal from Alexander Ehl (57th) was not enough for DEG, Justin Feser (60th) hit the empty goal.
The other quarter-finals are completely open: The Grizzlys Wolfsburg equalized with a 3:1 (0:0, 1:0, 2:1) against the Straubing Tigers, and the Adler Mannheim drew 2:1 (1:0, 0:0, 1:1) at the Kölner Haien also to 1:1.
Gerrit Fauser (40′), Trevor Mingoia (57′) and Spencer Machacek (60′) scored for Wolfsburg, Taro Jentzsch (15′) and Ryan MacInnis (42′) for Mannheim.
