ERC Ingolstadt was eliminated in the round of 16 of the Champions Hockey League.
The German runner-up won a remarkable 3:3 (1:2, 0:0, 2:1) in the second leg against the favored Swedish champion Växjö Lakers on Tuesday, but the Upper Bavarians lost their first duel in their own hall 1:4.
Maury Edwards (14th), Mathew Bodie (42nd) and Phillipp Krauß (46th) scored the goals for the ERC, which had a brief hope in the final third.
The progress of the Swedes, where former German NHL professional Tobias Rieder was on the ice, was never really in trouble. Former Munich player Kalle Kossila (9th), Dylan McLaughlin (20th) and Ludvig Nilsson (58th) scored for Växjö in the orphaned goal.
Late in the evening, main round winner Adler Mannheim will also play for a place in the quarter-finals. However, the omens are bad after the 1:4 defeat at the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers from Switzerland and their own form crisis. The Eagles have only won two of their past nine games.
On Wednesday (7:45 p.m./Sportdeutschland.tv) champions Red Bull Munich will meet Swiss champions Geneve-Servette HC. After the 3-2 win in the Olympic ice stadium, former national coach Toni Söderholm’s team goes into the encounter with a small advantage. Incidentally, no team other than Munich has ever reached the quarter-finals of the CHL, which has been held since 2014.