He succumbed to cancer
Silence in the hall: moving farewell to ice hockey star
02.02.2025 – 10:30 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
The former teammates of Tobias Eder in the Eisbären Berlin commemorate their late teammate. The spectators are also deeply moved.
His former teammates fought tears, also in the ranks immediately before the first game of the Eisbären Berlin after the death of Tobias Eder there was deep grief. In highly moving and depressing moments, players, officials and fans commemorated the former ice hockey professional, who died of cancer at the age of 26. “We are going through a very difficult time,” said coach Serge Aubin before the game.
He also looked down heavily when a film with scenes from Eder’s life was shown on the video dibe before the game against the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. With Aubin, the entire staff of the office had gathered on the Berliner bench.
As usual, the players did not get through a tunnel on the ice, the usual pre -program with fireworks, club anthem and inlet show was dispensed with. Because nothing was as usual this evening after the death of Eder last Wednesday. The first two games of the polar bears were moved out of consideration for their grief.
Despite the 14,200 spectators, it was oppressed long before the minute’s silence. Even before the game, instead of lively anticipation, unusual calm in front of the arena at the Ostbahnhof. Many fans take the opportunity to pause on a memorial set up on the outer wall for the died professional and take candles, scarves and flowers.
When the minute’s silence was over, a fan called “Tobi Eder” according to “Tobi Eder”, and the entire audience joined. All polar bear players also wore Eder’s number 22, once on the helmet, once on the jersey.
But with the start of the game it suddenly got loud in the hall. The polar bear team had wished for the full support of the fans to get the feeling of normality on the ice. When Ty Ronning took the lead for the Berliners after only 36 seconds, it was not the usual goal anthem of the polar bears, but “Viva La Vida” from Coldplay. It was Eder’s favorite song.
In the end, the Berliners won 2: 1 (1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 0) and thus strengthened their second place in the table. In addition to Ronning, Kai Wissmann (31st) scored for the hosts, Cole Maier scored the only goal of the Nuremberg (27th) in the power play.