The winning streak by leader ERC Ingolstadt in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) has been torn. After seven successes, the Ingolstadt residents lost 1: 4 (1: 1, 0: 2, 0: 1) against the Cologne sharks on Friday evening (January 21, 200), but are still at the top of the table.
During the week, the top game of the ERC scheduled for Wednesday was laid against the second -placed Eisbären Berlin. The reason for this was the deteriorating state of Berlin’s national player Tobias Eder, who succumbed to the “complications of a cancer” on Wednesday.
Memory of Tobias Eder
The DEL games were all dedicated to Eder’s death, there were his minute’s silence. The game originally scheduled for Friday by the Berlin Eisbären against Düsseldorfer eG was postponed because of the death (February 12).
The sharks defeated the ERC, for which only Wayne Simpson (5th) met thanks to the goals of Justin Schütz (1st/59th), Oto Rantari (29th) and Gregor Macleod (35th) and strengthened their playoff place .
In addition, the direct shark competitor Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven at Red Bull Munich lost 1: 3 (1: 1, 0: 1, 0: 1). The Munich fans were silent in memory of their former player Eder in the first 2:20 minutes and in the 22nd minute – based on Eder’s number 22.
Augsburg and Mannheim Siegen
Meanwhile, the Augsburg Panther broadcast another sign of life: After the 4: 3 success after penalty shootout on Wednesday against the Straubing Tigers, the bottom of . Anrei Hakulins led the Augsburgers, who have three points behind the penultimate Iserlohn Roosters, with two goals and three assists.
The Adler Mannheim won 5: 2 (2: 0, 1: 1, 2: 1) at the Schwenninger Wild Wingd. The Straubing Tigers lost their home game against Nuremberg 2: 4 (0: 2, 0: 1, 2: 1).