The EHC Red Bull Munich has won the top match of the DEL against the Eisbären Berlin and will remain the leader of the standings Nuremberg Ice Tigers. The champions from Bavaria beat the capital cities with a score of 4:1 (1:0,3:1,0:0).
With 82 points, Munich is now only one point behind the Franconians, and the Nuremberg team only brought the ERC Ingolstadt to a halt after extra time at 2-1 (1-0,0-1,0-0,1-0,1-0). Berlin came in third with 79 points.
In the fight for the play-off places, the Schwenninger Wild Wings won a 4-2 (1-0,2-2,1-0) draw against their direct rival Düsseldorf EC and remain fifth. At the end of the standings, the Straubing Tigers’ chase to catch up was slowed down after three consecutive victories. In sixth place in the standings, Iserlohn Roosters lost 2-1 (0-0,1-1,0-1) to Lower Bavaria.
There was joy and suffering for the league’s troubled children. The Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven finished their negative series of seven consecutive defeats and came back with a 6-2 (3-1,1-1,2-0) against the Krefeld Penguins in tenth place. The Adler Mannheim want to be at least there at the end of the main round, but the Kurpfälzer, who were traded before the season as a candidate for the title, remain after a 0:5 (0:2,0:2,0:1) with the Cologne sharks in a concrete crisis.
After the seventh defeat in the last eight games, Mannheim, in twelfth place, now more than ever has to fear for play-off participation. The Augsburg Panthers passed by after a surprising 5:3 (3:1,2:0,0:2) against the Grizzlys Wolfsburg.
In front of 10,000 spectators in the Olympic ice rink, the Munich team was the more efficient team. Berlin fired significantly more shots at Danny’s goal from the birch trees, but only scored one goal from Daniel Fischbuch (32nd). For the hosts Keith Aucoin were outnumbered (6th), Michael Wolf (30th) as well as the international players Patrick Hager (33rd) and Frank Mauer (39th).