A common belief is that numbers don’t lie. Thus the conditions before Tuesday night’s game against Herforder EV’s Ice Dragons were cause for concern: fifth game in three days, only four defenders available, only 13 players on the field available. “When I saw the Herford lineup before the game, I thought to myself, it’s going to be hard work today,” said Bulls manager Riedel of the East Westphalians’ lineup, who started with four full rows. “And so it was, you saw it in the first third.”
In fact, the first twenty minutes were played by guests, while the hosts allowed themselves too many puck losses and bad passes. “We have to be more responsible with the puck,” defender Jeroen Plauschin warned during the first break when the score was 0-1 in the dressing room. Earlier, Herford’s Logan DeNoble used his first penalty of the game in the 14th minute to give his colors the lead with a rebound. Not in the majority however, rather the Canadian goalkeeper of the Bulls Sebastian Albrecht, preferred to Timo Herden, passed with a shorthander – it was already the seventh goal for the Bulls in numerical superiority, in the league only Krefeld, bottom of the table , conceded with nine shorthanders more Goals conceded with an extra man on the ice.
Eighth shorthander of the season
The second half started a little late, first having to repair the goal of the Dragons box guarded by the former Bulls goalkeeper Justin Schrörs. A good decision, as the links in the middle section have been tested several times for their tear resistance. The Bulls netted five in ten minutes, turning the game into a 5-1 lead. “I’m speechless about our second third. And I want to stop at that,” says HEV coach Milan Vanek of the center third, in which Thomas Merl (29th), Dennis Schütt (33rd), Jeroen Plauschin (33rd ), Roman Pfennings (36th) and Patrick Schmid (39th) .) were successful for the Bulls. The latter completed the MEC’s handful of goals with the eighth shorthander of the season, only the league leaders Hannover Scorpions have so far been more successful in outnumbered. “We lost the thread, we made too many individual mistakes today,” said Vanek, while his counterpart rightly spoke of his team’s “super second third”, even though his team had to concede their second goal in the 39th minute. ‘.
The final third would have been quickly told and dealt with with the Bulls’ sixth goal of the evening from Lukas Valasek finally winning 6:2 – if not for the 53rd minute of the game, which is for irritation, questions and after the end of the game also for a lot of matching and additional Reports provided. What happened? A quick summary: A mistake by the refereeing team resulted in a (sub)player sitting too short in the penalty box when HEV captain Jonas Gerstung was sent to the penalty box with a 2+2 penalty. When the mistake was noticed by the referees and judges, it was already too late: Gerstung left the penalty area too early and started the supposed third strike of the Ice Dragons with an assist – even if he hadn’t (yet) about allowed to stand on the ice.
The minutes of elaboration of the scene follow, the referee team, the referee and both teams exchange animatedly and unravel the situation, the game resumes after the goal was disallowed. And it is precisely for this reason that at this point we must and must respect both the Striped Quartet and the Ice Dragons, since after that there were no accusations or even ideas of protest. “We were good in the first third. But if you come here with four rows, then I am absolutely disappointed (with the result),” said Vanek about the fifth failure at the fifth appearance of the HEV in the Sparkassen-Eisdom. “The quality of Halle surpassed our four rows.”
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