The Lower Saxony did not name names, nor the specific number of positive tests. However, according to the DEL regulations, a team with ten corona-free players is considered playable. The Grizzlies, who stopped training on Tuesday, don’t seem to be able to muster them at the moment.
Second break within a few weeks
It was only at the beginning of January that the entire Wolfsburg team went into domestic isolation after a few positive tests. At the same time, the Grizzlies had postponed DEL games in order to be able to carry out booster vaccinations in the team. The Wolfsburg team won the first game after their break on January 16 in Bremerhaven. They have played two more games since then, now it’s time for a break again.
Fliegauf calls for a new season plan
It is questionable how the DEL intends to terminate the steadily growing number of catch-up games. After all, the league reacts quickly and creatively: Augsburg will now play against the Iserlohn Roosters on Friday – this game was also a victim of Corona.
Before the start of the season, the application of the quotient table (points per game) was determined – in the event that not all teams can play all games. Grizzly’s manager Charly Fliegauf is not enough: “As a league, we have to sit down next week and make a plan on how to finish the season. We can’t always just react,” he told “sportbuzzer”.
The demand of the SVE players’ association for a league stop before the Olympics had been clearly rejected by DEL boss Gernot Tripcke: It was “logistically and legally not possible”. And the DEL should continue to play during the games in Beijing.
