Defending champion Adler Mannheim has regained the top of the group south in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) despite a defeat. The team of coach Pavel Gross lost to the Augsburg Panthers 3: 4 (0: 2, 1: 1, 2: 0, 0: 1) after extra time. By winning the point, the Kurpfälzer (27) overtook ERC Ingolstadt (26) – Augsburg reduced the gap to the play-off positions to three points.
Previously, title candidate Red Bull Munich had clinched their second win in a row and reduced the gap to the top in the southern group to three points. Coach Don Jackson’s team defeated the Schwenninger Wilds Wings 4: 3 (0: 0, 2: 1, 2: 2) and consolidated third place. Schwenningen remains fourth with four points behind Munich.
Trevor Parkes (21st / 24th) with a double strike, Patrick Hager (45th) and Kalle Kossila (49th) scored for Munich. Troy Bourke (33rd), Maximilian Hadraschek (47th) and Andreas Thuresson (55th) kept Schwenningen in the game until the end.
In the Curt Frenzel Stadium in Augsburg, Daniel Kristo (2nd), David Stieler (8th) and the ex-Mannheimer Alex Lambacher (27th) initially gave AEV a three-goal lead with his first goal of the season. But Benjamin Smith (31st / 59th) and Valentino Klos (43rd) equalized for the eagles. In Smith’s second goal, Gross had put everything on one card and taken goalkeeper Felix Brückmann off the ice in favor of another outfield player. Augsburg’s Spencer Abbott (62nd) made the decision in overtime.
15th matchday
Group North
Krefeld Pinguine – Iserlohn Roosters 3: 7 (2: 1, 0: 5, 1: 1) – Goals: 1: 0 Trivellato (01:05), 2: 0 Tianulin (07:53), 2: 1 Sutter (19 : 55), 2: 2 Sutter (21:41), 2: 3 Friedrich (22:47), 2: 4 Lowry (30:02), 2: 5 Raedeke (32:48), 2: 6 Whitney (37 : 40), 2: 7 Butcher (49:44), 3: 7 Blank (58:49). – Spectators: none – Penalty minutes: Krefeld 4 – Iserlohn 4
Eisbären Berlin – Düsseldorfer EG 4: 2 (1: 1, 1: 0, 2: 1) – Goals: 1: 0 Foucault (09:08), 1: 1 Jensen (15:06), 2: 1 Pföderl (29 : 29), 3: 1 Foucault (44:43), 3: 2 Jahnke (52:03), 4: 2 White (58:50) – spectators: none – penalty minutes: Berlin 8 – Düsseldorf 4
Group south
ERC Ingolstadt – Nürnberg Ice Tigers 7: 0 (3: 0, 1: 0, 3: 0). – Goals: 1: 0 Simpson (06:07), 2: 0 Höfflin (13:08), 3: 0 Soramies (15:28), 4: 0 Bodie (29:35), 5: 0 Aubry (41: 54), 6: 0 Simpson (54:05), 7: 0 Elsner (59:35). – Spectators: none – Penalty minutes: Ingolstadt 10 – Nuremberg 12
Red Bull Munich – Schwenninger Wild Wings 4: 3 (0: 0, 2: 1, 2: 2) – Goals: 1: 0 Parkes (20:17), 2: 0 Voakes (23:58), 2: 1 Bourke (32:22), 3: 1 Hager (44:19), 3: 2 Hadraschek (46:22), 4: 2 Kossila (48:42), 4: 3 Thuresson (54:30). – Spectators: none – Penalty minutes: Munich 12 – Schwenningen 10
Augsburger Panther – Adler Mannheim 4: 3 (2: 0, 1: 1, 0: 2, 1: 0) nV – Goals: 1: 0 Kristo (01:04), 2: 0 Stieler (07:09), 3rd : 0 Lambacher (26:42), 3: 1 Smith (30:01), 3: 2 Klos (42:29), 3: 3 Smith (58:37), 4: 3 Abbott (61:39). – Spectators: none – Penalty minutes: Augsburg 8 – Mannheim 10
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