At the Löwen Frankfurt the knot in the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) has apparently burst after the expulsion of coach Matti Tiilikainen.
In the first game after parting ways with the Finnish coach, the Hessians celebrated another sense of success against runner-up ERC Ingolstadt with 3:2 (1:0, 2:1, 0:1) after ten defeats in a row.
The team of Frankfurt’s interim coach and sports director Franz-David Fritzemeier moved up to eleventh place with its first win after a dry spell of more than a month. Ingolstadt, on the other hand, missed the jump to seventh place due to its fifth defeat in the last six games.
Markus Lauridsen (8th), Eugen Alanov (28th), Julian Napravnik (39th) ensured the Lions’ first win since the 4-2 win against Düsseldorfer EG on December 10th last year.
Mathew Bodie (34th) and Andrew Rowe (46th) were only able to shorten the score twice for the guests, otherwise Frankfurt’s newly signed goalkeeper Julius Hudacek stood in the Ingolstadt team’s way: the Slovakian World Cup runner-up from 2012, who signed at the beginning of the week from the Czech first division club HC Kladno the Main, shone in his debut in the Lions jersey with 23 saves.