World Sport News

With their sixth consecutive home win in a row, the Adler Mannheim have continued their race to catch up in the DEL. The seven-time champion defeated the ERC Ingolstadt 3-1 (2-0,0-0,1-1) and climbed to ninth place in the standings, qualifying for the pre-play-offs.

The gap to sixth place and the direct qualification for the quarter-finals is only two points. The Cologne sharks, who won 3:1 (1:0,0:0,2:1) in the second rankings of Nuremberg Ice Tigers and improved to fifth place, also scored an important threesome in the battle for the play-offs.

Olympic participant David Wolf (7th, 54th) and Garrett Festerling (18th) scored the goals for the Mannheim team. Goalkeeper Dennis Endras, who has also been sent to Pyeongchang (9th place) for the Winter Games, has been a regular fixture. till 25. February), only one hit from David Elsner (46th) was allowed. For the sharks Benjamin Hanowski (14th), Blair Jones (45th) and TJ Mulock (59th) met.