It’s done! After three victories against the Kölner Haie, the polar bears are in the semi-finals for the German championship. On Thursday, the Berliners sent the Haie on vacation with a smooth 4-0 win. 13,717 fans celebrated an ice hockey festival in the MB Arena.
The polar bears without the injured goalscorer Leo Pföderl. Dominik Bokk stormed alongside Marcel Noebels and Zach Boychuk. Cologne without defender Holos.
And the polar bears stormed off cheerfully. This time, the fourth row set a first exclamation mark. Wiederer sank to make it 1-0 (3rd minute) on assists from Streu and Roßmy. The first shot by a Cologne player on the Eisbären goal, which was again very well guarded by Niederberger, only after ten minutes. The first break started with the narrow lead.
The third quarter-final playoff wasn’t played so hard this time, you took it back a bit. The referees whistled more consistently this time, almost petty. The flow of the game suffered as a result.
Luckily Boychuk used one of the many chances to make it 2-0 (28th). The polar bears then brought this lead into the second break. Again Boychuk made it 3-0 (45th) and when Cologne coach Uwe Krupp, who was fined by the league for criticizing the referees after the 5-1 victory of Berlin in Cologne, the goalkeeper from his box fetched, Fiore sank to 4: 0 (55th).
The polar bears had never rushed through a quarterfinal so easily. With only two goals conceded and three wins in the best-of-five series.
