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.