DEL: Augsburg wins top game and takes the lead in the standings

The Augsburg Panthers have impressively won the top game of the DEL and thus conquered the lead of the standings.The Bavarian Swabians sat down on 5.With a 4-0 draw against the Nuremberg Ice Tigers (3-0,1-0,0-0,0-0) and the best goal difference, they are now the first of an equal-point trio.

In an exciting pursuit duel, the Eisbären Berlin also won 3-2 (1-0,1-2,1-0,1-0) against the Cologne sharks and finished second ahead of Nuremberg.

Defending champion Red Bull Munich, who started the season with a 6-3 (3-0,2-1,1-2) victory at the new tail light of Iserlohn Roosters, took the lead and is now in fourth place.The Adler Mannheim disappointed the Straubing Tigers with a 2:3 (1:1,1:1,0:1) defeat.

Vice champion Grizzly’s Wolfsburg will continue to pick up momentum only slowly.Against the Duesseldorf EC, Lower Saxony won their second consecutive victory of the season after sudden death at 3-2 (0-0,1-1,1-1,1-1,1-0).However, the finalists of the past two seasons have not yet been able to achieve a success after regular playing time.The ERC Ingolstadt also won a 1-0 (0-0,0-0,0-0,0-0,0-0,1-0,1-0) overtime at the Schwenninger Wild Wings.

Augsburg had left no doubt about its strong form in the first period of last season’s quarter-finals.Thomas Holzmann (2nd), Michael Davies (7th) and Evan Trupp (13th) shot the hosts 3:0 in the lead.In the second period Trevor Parkes (37th) was down, the game was over.