The polar bears take it to the extreme! 55 main round games are over, No. 56 will be the ultimate finale! With the 4: 3 (2: 0, 2: 1, 0: 2) in the Curt Frenzel Stadium with 6179 spectators in the Augsburg Panthers, the DEL record champion gets the chance for the pre-play-offs until the very end . Or better: the mini-mini-mini chance.
The good thing is: EHC is in the draw for 10th place up to the last matchday of this actually totally screwed up season, in (probably) the last home game of the season on Sunday (2 p.m., MB Arena) against Schwenningen (2:3 after extra time). against Cologne and thus out of the race like the game-free Iserlohn) it’s about more than the wooden puck on the long line. But the motto is: Hope dies last…
Polar bear Marcel Noebels bites his teeth
Because the stupid thing is: The polar bears no longer have it in their own hands to conquer rank 10. Even a double-digit win against the Wild Wings is for naught if Frankfurt lands a three-pointer at the same time after the 6-1 win in Nuremberg.
And the chances are good, because the lions play at home against – Augsburg, which is table 14. maybe have to wait two months to know in which league it goes on. If Krefeld, Kassel or Dresden (have the economic prerequisites for promotion) become DEL2 champions, it is league 2, with every other substructure winner league 1.
Back to the Curt Frenzel Stadium. The polar bears as on Tuesday at 2: 3 after penalty in Bremerhaven – probably the last nail in the coffin, with three points would have been 10th place at the North Sea – without captain Frank Hördler (shoulder), but again with Marcel Noebels, who was injured last, who on the bites teeth.
After two thirds, the polar bear begins to tremble
His participation inspires. Fighting, physical, playful, tactical – two thirds everything was great. Oh, just a few games, a few thirds (!) more of this kind – let’s leave it at that! Matt White (12th), Marco Nowak on the power play (20th), Giovanni Fiore (22nd) and Leo Pföderl (28th) give them a 4-0 lead. The 1: 4 after a counterattack by Sebastian Wännström (29th) – given.
But in the last third break it must have somehow leaked out that Frankfurt was leading 5-1 in Nuremberg at this point and that the hope of standing in front of the lions before the last game was gone. Because suddenly the last consequence is gone. The receipt: 2: 4 by David Wasofsky (53rd) and 3: 4 by Matt Puempel (55th). The rest is a big tremor. If your knees aren’t tight again on Sunday and your heads are clear, there’s not even a mini-mini-mini chance anymore…
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