AEV obliges button and another defender should come
A goal of Larry Mitchell When planning the squad for the coming season in the German ice hockey league, it was: « We want to get bigger. » That means: The Panther’s body play in the past season was expandable. In this respect, the recent new commitment of the Del-Talchung member in the prey scheme of the sports director. The Augsburgers announced Ryan Button’s commitment from the DEL competitor Grizzlys Wolfsburg. The defender is 1.85 meters tall and weighs 90 kilograms. Born in Edmonton, the native of Edmonton has been playing in the DEL for eleven years and also has a German passport. From the Iserlohn Roosters (2014 – 2017) we finally went to Wolfsburg (2019 – 2025) via the EHC Red Bull Munich (2017 – 2019).
Button celebrates the championship with Red Bull Munich
515 DEL inserts, 37 goals and 133 assists as well as a plus/minus value of +30 are in the statistics of the defender. In 2018, Button celebrated with Red Bull Munich winning the German championship. In the past round, he was 59 percent won the battle for the disc of his team’s best duels. Button’s pass rate of around 84 percent also made him a valuable construction player. The left shooter received a lot of ice age in the outnumbered game. But also in the power play, coach Mike Stewart kept putting on the 34-year-old. Since the Grizzlys missed the play-offs for the first time in years, sports director Karl-Heinz Fliegauf and Stewart made a cut in the squad. Ten professionals had to leave Wolfsburg, including button. The German-Canadian is likely to be a replacement for Mick Köhler who leaves the Panther. « With Ryan Button we bring the necessary variability, lots of DEL experience and leadership skills to the team, » says Mitchell about the second newcomer according to goalkeeper Peyton Jones.
Fabrizio Pilu from the eagles Mannheim also fits in the requirement profile of Mitchell. According to our editorial team, the 22-year-old signed a contract in Augsburg. Born in Mannheim, he has been 22 years old and has already completed over 200 DEL games for the Adler and the Nuremberg Ice Tigers. At 1.83 meters, Pilu also brings the necessary physique that the AEV sports director wants. In the defense, there would be four players in the squad with the already obliged button, Maximilian Renner and Leon van der Linde. An improved AEV offer has the best Panther defender Thomas Schemitsch present. The Canadian with Austrian roots has not yet decided. Should Schemitsch agree, two imports on the defensive would be open. The future of Captain Dennis Reul, who failed after a concussion for the season finale, and Kristian Blumenschein is still not clear.
What does Panther Alexander Oblinger do?
In the storm national players Tim Wohlgemuth by the Cologne Haien and Enrico Henriquez Morales from ERC Ingolstadt are traded as newcomers. The future of Augsburg’s native Alexander Oblinger and German-Canadian Jason Bast is still open. Justin Volek have not yet reported the Panther as a departure. However, the foreign striker will probably leave the club after three years in Augsburg.
