The Cologne Haie missed the Sweep against the Fischtown Penguins in the DEL playoffs and lost play four despite an early 2-0 lead. In this way, the Cologne team in the best-of-Seven series only lead 3: 1.
Gregor Macleod (12th) and Juhani Tyrväinen (16th) put the sharks in the lead on Monday in a sold -out hall. Ross Mauermann (24th), Christian Wejse (32nd), Felix Maegaard Scheel (47th), Ziga Jeglic (54.) and Miha Verlic (60th) turned the game for Bremerhaven.
Match penalty against Bremerhaven Vikingstad
The guests got off to a better start in the game and acted committed and determined from the start. But then the guests weakened themselves. Markus Vikingstad went far too impetuously into the duel against Juhani Tyrväinen one meter before the gang and checked the Cologne from behind.
The Finn remained on the ice, but could continue after a short break. However, this was not true for Vikingstad. The referees expressed a disciplinary penalty and sent the Bremerhavener off the ice (11th).
For the penguins, this also meant a five -minute outnumber. And the sharks used that immediately. Gregor Macleod had all the freedom in front of the slot. Justin Schütz fought the Puck into the Bremerhaven goal, but the official scorer remained Macleod (12th).
Four minutes later, the KEC used the majority a second time. Alexandre Grenier fitted the puck from the left side. From the ice of Tyrväinens, the window crashed into the Bremerhaven Tor. The referees saw no active movement of the Finn and gave the goal – 2-0 for Cologne.
Bremerhaven hits the majority
Shortly after the beginning of the second third, KEC captain Moritz Müller had to get off the ice for two minutes. And Bremerhaven came up again. Ross Mauermann falsified a shot from Phillip Bruggisser unsustainable for KEC goalie Julius Hudacek to 2-1 from a Cologne perspective (24th).
The sharks made a lot of punishments in the second third. Bremerhaven had the large chacnce in the four-to-four. Grenier played the puck back blindly from the third of the attack and thus directly on the racket of Jan Urbas, who, however, found his master in Hudacek (31st).
A few seconds later, Müller had to get off the ice again for two minutes. Again, Urbas had the great chance of equalizing, Hudacek parried again. The Slovak was powerless against the margin. Christian Wejse falsified the puck to compensate in the hair goal (32nd).
Penguins turn the game
So after a hinge second third, it went to the final third. The Cologne sharks Provides developed, but could not use an early power play. And so Bremerhaven turned the game. Wejse brought the puck in front of the gate where Felix Maegaard Scheel had no opponent and scored from a short distance from a hair view.
The KEC took a few minutes to recover from the gap, but then came back to the guest goal. What were missing were the degrees. Instead, Bremerhaven was freezing cold on the other side. Ziga Jeglic made a dreamlike 2: 4 by raising the puck from right over his shoulder Hudaceks in the left angle (54.).
KEC coach Kari Jalons took off the ice in the final minutes. But that didn’t work anymore. Instead, Miha Verlic hit the empty goal in the last minute. Game five will take place on Wednesday (March 26, 2025, 6.45 p.m.) in Bremerhaven.
