“We just have to deliver and if we don’t do that, it goes into the second division,” striker Laurin Braun complained at MagentaSport and criticized too many penalties: “It’s really our own fault. It’s rarely stupid.”
The penguins were lucky that their direct competitors Schwenningen (2:5 against Ingolstadt) and Iserlohn (2:3 against Augsburg) were not able to pull away further. Five games before the end of the main round, penultimate Schwenningen is six points ahead of Krefeld, Iserlohn, third from last, has a nine-point lead and still has one more game to play. This season, the last player in the preliminary round is relegated to the DEL2.
In the battle for the playoffs, the Straubing Tigers beat Adler Mannheim in fourth place with a 3-1 (1-1, 1-0, 1-0) win at Bietigheim. The Eagles lost 2-0 (0-0, 0-0, 0-2) against Bremerhaven and now have to worry about home advantage in the playoff quarter-finals on April 10th.
The German champions Eisbären Berlin achieved their second win within 24 hours with a 2-1 (0-0, 1-0, 1-1) win at the Nürnberg Ice Tigers. Only on Thursday did the leader win 2-1 at EHC Red Bull Munich.
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