Status: 11.09.2025 12:33 p.m.
Despite the missed play-offs last season, Mike Stewart Coach of the Grizzlys Wolfsburg remained. They all want to do it much better in the new series. It starts on Friday, with a guest performance in Frankfurt.
At 7.30 p.m., the team and fans of the Grizzlys Wolfsburg will finally come to an end. For everyone, 189 days are in black and orange between the last point game of last season and the first of the new ones. Already on March 7th, two days after Ash Wednesday, was all over for Wolfsburg in Düsseldorf with a 0: 3 defeat-eleventh place after the main round was not enough for the play-offs.
It was a tearful evening, after all, the glorious DEG also rose from the highest German division for the first time in its club history.
Despite the disappointing pre -season – Club holds on coach Stewart
The Lower Saxony only had a lot of free time ahead of them, far too much. “The summer break was far too long for us,” writes Grizzlys Sports Director Karl-Heinz Fliegauf in the editorial of the club’s own season magazine, but then also to reaffirmation: “We have converted our disappointment over the past season into a lot of energy.”
The club has refused to mechanisms that very often use in such moments of disappointment: Wolfsburg did not throw out the coach. Stewart is still responsible for the sporting progress of the team as a head coach. And that should be significantly better than in the past season – despite less financial means.
Nuremberg comes to the first home game of the season
“As is well known, we have to get by with a slightly adapted budget compared to the pre-season. Our sporty claim remains unchanged. We want to show attractive, combative and passionate ice hockey and reach the play-offs,” said Fliegauf. After the start at the Löwen Frankfurt, Wolfsburg welcomes the Nuremberg Ice Tigers to the first home game on Sunday (4.30 p.m.). In the home game (September 21), the promoted Dresden Eislöwen is a guest.
“New season, new luck.”
Grizzly coach Mike Stewart
“The boys are well prepared,” said Stewart in an interview with the NDR about his team. “They are ambitious, want to present themselves well. The boys have worked hard for it in the past few weeks,” added the Canadian, who has been training the Grizzlys since the 2021/2022 season. He issued tenth place as a minimum goal. He didn’t want to say many words over the past season. Stewart: “New season, new luck.”
Defender Fabio Pfohl did not keep it much differently: “I think most quickly ticked it off. We tried to find ourselves again and accelerate over the summer. And now we are ready for Friday.”
Tyler Gaudet back in the Grizzlys team
The defenders Ethan ProW (Rochester Americans) and Keaton Thompson (Torpedo Nischni Novgorod) as well as the returned center Tyler Gaudet (DEG) and strikers Jacob Hayhurst (Västeras IK) and Sven Ziegler (Iserlohn Roosters) are new to the Grizzlys team.
Meanwhile, veteran Andrew Miele moved to the Fischtown Pinguins in Bremerhaven, who start the season with a home game against the Schwennig Wild Wings on Friday evening (7.30 p.m.).
The 53-year-old Grizzly coach Stewart, who once made it to the nickname “Iron Mike” as a player, is looking forward to the start of the season, this special moment when the light goes out in the Frankfurt ice rink on Friday evening and everyone gets ready. Stewart: “It is a feeling that it is adrenaline, it is tension. I am more or less in the professional area since I was 17 years old. But you don’t lose this feeling. I am very happy that it starts.”
