Three weeks before the end of the regular season in the DEL, the Eisbären Berlin underpinned that they will be expected in the playoffs.
After 44 out of 52 season games, the Berliners qualified for the quarter -finals with their third home win. The German champion won 4: 2 (1: 1, 1: 1, 2: 0) against the Straubing Tigers. Leonhard Pföderl (14th/35th) scored two goals, and Yannick Veilleux (41.) and Ty Ronning (60th) also scored for the capitals, who took second place behind leader ERC Ingolstadt (92).
At the same time, Munich was able to celebrate a 5: 3 (2: 0, 2: 1, 1: 2) home win against the Löwen Frankfurt and initially displaced the Adler Mannheim from third place. It was the seventh league victory in a row for the Munich team, in which Yasin Ehliz was the man of the game with two goals for 1-0 (5th) and 5: 2 (54.).
Ten goals and a happy winner in Wolfsburg
The Grizzlys Wolfsburg and runner-up Fischtown Pinguins meant a real goal spectacle, in which the Bremerhaveners gave a 5-2 lead out of their hands. In the end, the grizzlys were allowed to celebrate 6: 5 (0: 2, 2: 3, 3: 0, 0: 0: 0: 0) after penalty shootout.