The Cologne sharks are in the play-off quarterfinals. The team of coach Uwe Krupp won on Thursday also the second game of the first play-off round against the ERC Ingolstadt by a 3: 2 (0: 2, 2: 0, 0: 0) after extension. Maurice Edwards shot the sharks prematurely in the quarter-finals in the tenth minute of Overtime in duplicate overnourfs and made for the end of the season of the Schanzer. Matchwinner was however Cologne Keeper Justin Pogge, who held his team against initially oppressively superior Ingolstadt long in the game. Already on Tuesday, the preliminary round tenth Cologne had won the first game of the “Best-of-Three” series 4: 3.
- Düsseldorfer EG – Nürnberg Ice Tigers 5: 6 (3: 0, 1: 2, 1: 3, 0: 1) N.V.
- ERC Ingolstadt – Kölner Haie 2: 3 (2: 0, 0: 2, 0: 0, 0: 1) N.V.
For whom the sharks play on Sunday, the second pre-play-off series between Nuremberg and the Düsseldorf EC decide on Friday. The francs also exploit the decision game through a spectacular 6: 5 (0: 3, 2: 1, 3: 1) after extension. Gregor MacLeod shot the winner in the eighth minute of extension. Previously, Dane Fox had brought into play with three goals the francs at the beginning to undisciplined. After a match penal after a bad check by Chris Brown, Dusseldorf had already led 3: 0 and 4: 1. “You should then bring that over the laps,” Deg-Captain Alex Barta at magenta sports. “But that’s the way it is sometimes. We will be there.”
With it is to be on Friday again Chef coach Harold Circle, who flew in his homeland Canada because of a family if necessary on Monday. “The use and fight of both teams is great,” said Nuremberg’s sport director Stefan Ustorf after the dramatic victory.
So the del play-offs run
Düsseldorfer EG – Nürnberg Ice Tigers 5: 6 (3: 0, 1: 2, 1: 3, 0: 1) N.V.
Goals: 1: 0 EBNER (1:19), 2: 0 Fish Book (16:57), 3: 0 d’Amigo (17:35), 3: 1 Fox (29:39), 4: 1 Eder (31:45), 4: 2 Fox (39:57), 4: 3 Schmolz (47:21), 5: 3 Barta (51:28), 5: 4 Fox (53:59), 5: 5 Reimer (55:14), 5: 6 MacLeod (67:35, Overtime). – Criminal minutes: Dusseldorf 23 – Nuremberg 15 Plus Game Duration Disciplinary (Brown). – Spectators: 5816. – Play-off booth: 1: 1
ERC Ingolstadt – Kölner Haie 2: 3 (2: 0, 0: 2, 0: 0, 0: 1) N.V.
Goals: 1: 0 Höfflin (7:50), 2: 0 Defazio (10:05), 2: 1 Thermesson (20:51), 2: 2 Holot (21:27), 2: 3 Edwards (69:41, OVERTIME). – Criminal minutes: Ingolstadt 10 – Cologne 12. – Viewers: 3663. – PLAY-OFF final score: 0: 2