Just a few hours after coach Mihails Svarinskis was kicked out, the Krefeld Penguins celebrated their first win of the season in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).
The bottom of the table in the northern group, which was the first club in DEL history to not have a single point in the first nine games, surprisingly sat 6: 3 (2: 1, 2: 1, 2: 1 at the Iserlohn Roosters) ) by.
Before that, the Krefeld team had separated from Svarinskis. “The decision was not an easy one for us,” said managing director Sergey Saveljev: “We spoke for a long time after the last encounter and now we have agreed that it would be best for the club if we change the coaching team.”
The 37-year-old Latvian was promoted to head coach in November because the Canadian Glen Hanlon officially threw in the towel before the start of the season amid chaotic conditions in Krefeld for private reasons. In Iserlohn, co-trainer Boris Blank looked after the team together with goalkeeping trainer Igor Gross.
Defending champion Adler Mannheim suffered the second defeat in the tenth game of the season. In the Straubing Tigers, the last champions lost 1: 2 (0: 0, 1: 2, 0: 0) before the corona pandemic, but maintained the lead in the South Group.
In front of national coach Toni Söderholm, national player Markus Eisenschmid put Mannheim in the lead (30th). Mitchell Heard (32nd) and Kael Mouillierat (40th) turned the game in favor of Lower Bavaria.
Martin Schymainski (11th), Christian Bull (17th), Alexander Blank (26th), Patrick Klöpper (32nd), Laurin Braun (46th) and Arthur Tianulin (59th) were successful for Krefeld. Joe Whitney (9th), Brent Aubin (25th) and Casey Bailey (45th) met for the Iserlohner.
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