Nuremberg (AP) – title favorite EHC Red Bull Munich is still struggling at the beginning of the new season in the German ice hockey league.
The best team in the league with the Adler Mannheim won the second game of the season with 4: 3 (0: 0, 2: 2, 1: 1) after a penalty shootout at the Straubing Tigers. But it took a lot of work for coach Don Jackson’s team.
National player Yasin Ehliz saved the guests, who had been training again for months, 55 seconds before the end of regular time in extra time, which remained goalless. Former international Philip Gogulla converted the decisive penalty. Even with the first win of the season on Sunday in the derby against Augsburg, Munich struggled.
The Nürnberg Ice Tigers and the Krefeld Penguins have no victory. Nuremberg with the new coach Frank Fischöder lost 1: 4 (0: 1, 1: 2, 0: 1) against ERC Ingolstadt. On Saturday, the young Nuremberg team had no chance at 1: 5 in Mannheim. “Sobering that we are starting the season like this,” complained Nuremberg’s national goalkeeper Niklas Treutle at MagentaSport. “We have to get better in all parts.” In the northern group, Krefeld also lost the second game of the season: 2: 3 against Iserlohn Roosters (1: 1, 0: 2, 1: 0). All four teams are considered to be clearly underdogs in the shortened season.
The season, which started three months late due to the Corona crisis and has been shortened to 38 game days, will now be paused on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. On Saturday, the league, which is divided into two groups this season, continues with Mannheim against Straubing. There are three games on Sunday.
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