Thanks to a success of the will, the Nuremberg Ice Tigers move into the DEL Play-off quarter-finals shortly before the end of the game against Schwenningen. There they demand the over -team of the German ice hockey league in the Bavarian duel: ERC Ingolstadt.
The Nuremberg Ice Tigers have reached the quarter -finals in the German ice hockey league (DEL) for the first time in six years. In the third and decisive duel of the pre-play-offs with the Schwenninger Wild Wings for the last free space in the final round, the Franks prevailed 4: 2 (1: 0, 0: 0, 3: 2). In the play-offs of the top eight, the two-time runner-up challenges the main round winner ERC Ingolstadt from Sunday.
Nuremberg’s second win on his own ice cream
Hits by Ryan Stoa (12th), Cole Maier (48th) as well as Jeremy McKenna and again Stoa (both 59.) had Nuremberg cheered. The team of coach Mitch O’keefe had already won the opening match of the play-off excretion 4: 3, but the Wild Wings then defended the first match ball of the ICE Tigers on their own ice with a 3-1 success and forced the decision-making game.
In Nuremberg, however, the Black Forest not gave the gates of Boaz Bassen (51st) and Jordan Murray (55th) to the second play-off participation since their return twelve years ago.
Also Straubing and Munich in play-offs
In addition to the Bayern comparison between Ingolstadt and Nuremberg, the other three best-of-Seven series in the play-off quarter-finals will also begin on Sunday. Defending champion Eisbären Berlin and the Straubing Tigers, runner -up Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven and the Cologne Haie as well as the Adler Mannheim and the EHC Red Bull Munich meet.
Source: BR24Sport 14.03.2025 – 06:55 a.m.
