The Berliners add the next clap to the Cologne Haien in the fifth final game – and make the eleventh championship perfect.
The bank players of the Eisbären Berlin stormed on the ice before the final siren and threw their helmets and gloves away. After the ultimate demonstration of power, the merciless dominators around Ty Ronning had no stopping. Through the next 7: 0 (4: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0) against completely defenseless Cologne sharks, the Berliners not only made their eleventh title in the history of German ice hockey league (DEL) perfect, but also cemented their status as record champions.
“It is brutal. After the two 7: 0, we said: We have to keep going and don’t give the opponent a chance. We did that again today,” said Berliner Jonas Müller. “Everyone has torn their ass open. Everyone gave 100 percent to break the opponent.”
Zach Boychuk (3rd/30th), Gabriel Fontaine (4th), Ronning (8th), who expanded his record and scored in the 28th game in a row, Marcel Noebels (12th), Yannick Veilleux (24th) and Frederik Tiffels (54.) Shot in the arena at the Eastern train station for 4: 1 victory in the final series. It is the fourth title in five years.
The fifth final game was the most impressive final chord of the clearest DEL final since the introduction of the Play-OFS 1981. Recently, the polar bears had already handled the sharks twice in episode 7: 0 and thus set up two records: the highest play-off final victory and the highest away win. The record of 26: 3 goals also speaks volumes across all five games.
Eisbears merciless, sharks a class worse
In the hall, which was sold out with 14,200 spectators, it looked like the sharks could possibly hold against it. Alexandre Grenier (1st) appeared freely in front of the Berlin goal and moved away. But then the relentless Berlin ice hockey machine made you serious – and Cologne fell apart. Boychuk brought the arena to a boil for the first time, fontaine increased immediately afterwards. The Cologne team did not know what happened to them and changed the goalkeeper after a good three (!) Minutes. For Julius Hudacek, Tobias Ancicka came.
But this measure also fizzled out immediately. The polar bears suffocated all hope of the Cologne mercilessly and punished the opposing mistakes without mercy. Record striker Ronning netted a rebound to Ancicka-Parade, Noebels carried out after another shine of the goalkeeper against Norwin Panocha with the backhand. The class difference was blatant in the first third. Accordingly, Boychuk threatened “Magenta Sport” during the third break: “We will continue in the same way.”
This is exactly what the polar bears, who continued to combine brilliantly and, with their permanent pressure, hardly allowed the long -broken Cologne to leave their own third. And in front of the gate itself remained freezing: Veilleux somehow bounced over the line before Boychuk was released six minutes later – and as a matter of course. “Berlin is at a different level, you have to say that,” said Cologne Parker Tuomie before the final third.
In the final 20 minutes, the Berliners switched back a little and gave the Cologne more space, but polar bear goalkeeper Jake Hildebrand made the sharks despair several times with strong reactions. Tiffels put the end of the end of national teammate Leo Pföderl. And gave the starting signal for the big party.
Eisbären Berlin – Cologne Haie 7: 0 (4: 0, 2: 0, 1: 0). – Goals: 1: 0 Boychuk (02:52), 2: 0 Fontaine (03:11), 3: 0 Ronning (07:51), 4: 0 Noebels (11:17), 5: 0 Veilleux (23:45), 6: 0 Boychuk (29:21), 7: 0 Tiffels (53:52)). – Criminal cars: Berlin 8 – Cologne 6th – Spectators: 14,200. – Playoff final: 4: 1.