With a hard-fought 3-2 win at ESV Buchloe last Sunday, EC Pfaffenhofen scored their first points of the new season in the ice hockey Bavarian League. Now the team wants to build on this performance and further increase their points account in the games on Friday (8 p.m.) at EHC Klostersee and on Sunday (5:30 p.m.) against VfE Ulm/Neu-Ulm.
However, the Pfaffenhofeners have difficult tasks ahead of them with both opponents. EHC Klostersee was still a member of the Oberliga Süd last season, but withdrew because remaining in a league with professional structures would have endangered the club’s existence. After EV Landsberg was officially relegated, Klostersee was accepted back into the Bayernliga upon request. There are no major changes in the squad at Grafingen. The two contingent positions have been filled with defender Marek Haloda (ESC Geretsried) and striker Kevin Walz. The American came from the French second division club Yetis Mont Blanc. Defenders Yannick Kischer and Marinus Kritzenberger have left the club. It will be a special encounter for Vitus Gleixner. The new signing from Pfaffenhofen, who joined the ECP because of his move to Ingolstadt, had previously spent his entire ice hockey career with his hometown club and is now coming to the Grafinger ice stadium as an opponent for the first time. There will also be a reunion with EHC keeper Philipp Hähl, who will meet many of his former ECP teammates. Klostersee got off to a good start with four points from the difficult opening games against Landsberg, Erding and Amberg, and now the first three-point win should be recorded against the first supposedly easier opponent.
On Sunday, one of the positive surprises of last season, VfE Ulm/Neu-Ulm, will come to the Pfaffenhofener Stadtwerke-Arena. The Ulm team finished the preliminary round in a strong fifth place and inflicted their only play-off defeat on eventual champions Königsbrunn in the quarter-finals. In Ulm this year they are once again relying on the proven forces, especially the two Czech attackers Dominik Synek and Martin Podesva. In addition, the three next best point collectors were also able to be retained, although some seasoned Bayernliga players, Marius Dörner, Florian Döring and Jonas Mikulic, also left the club. They were replaced mainly by very young newcomers, primarily from Pfronten, Ravensburg and Memmingen. With Daniel Bartuli (Duisburg), Valentin Der (Herne) and Justin Unger (Herford), three newcomers also bring major league experience with them. Like the ECP, Ulm also managed its first win after two opening defeats with a 6:5 after a penalty shootout against Schongau. Now the team wants to get the points in Pfaffenhofen too.
ECP coach Stefan Teufel can probably call on his entire squad apart from the long-term injured, which has now been joined by Michael Wolf and Moritz Neureuther, who were recently missing. However, it is quite possible that he will transfer some of his players to the 1b team on Friday, which will host EV Aich for the district league game at 8 p.m.
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