Ice hockey: Nuremberg remains at the top of DEL – Munich with sixth home victory in series

The Nuremberg Ice Tigers remain at the top of the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) standings even without their injured goalscorer Patrick Reimer.

The Franconians sat down on 13.Grizzlys Wolfsburg, who had previously been disappointing runners-up Grizzlys Wolfsburg, are now three points ahead of Eisbären Berlin (27), who lost 2:3 (0:0,2:1,0:1,0:1,0:1) at the Krefeld Penguins after penalty shooting.

Defending champion Red Bull Munich (28) jumped through the 5:3 (2:1,2:1,1:1) against Fischtown Pinguins from Bremerhaven with the sixth consecutive home win in second place.

The ERC Ingolstadt won by two late goals of Brandon Buck (54) and Gregory Mauldin (59th) at the Düsseldorf EC with 2:0 (0:0,0:0,2:0).

Leonhard Pföderl (14th/21st) doubled for the Ice Tigers and Dane Fox (10th) had taken the lead earlier.Wolfsburg’s Kristopher Foucault (12th) provided for the interim equalization.Nuremberg’s Steven Reinprecht scored 49 seconds before the end of the match to the 4:1 final score.

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In Krefeld Mark Olver (22nd) and Sean Backmann (34th) met for the polar bears.Christopher Gawlik (35th) and Nicolas St-Pierre (57th) equalized the score.Norwegian Mathias Trettenes scored a penalty shootout for Krefeld’s victory.

In Munich, Brooks Macek was the man of the match with a three-pack (12/26/54), while Patrick Hager (3rd) and Steven Pinizzotto (22nd) scored further goals for the hosts.On the other side, Rylan Schwartz (4th), Kristopher Newbury (35th) and Cody Lampl (50th) were successful.