Augsburger Panther in the DEL: Defeat against Nuremberg

Three game days before the end of the main round in the German ice hockey league (Del) the Augsburg panther remain at the end of the table. In Nuremberg they received a 1: 4 (0: 2, 0: 1, 1: 1) defeat on Friday evening. The day before, relegation competitor Iserlohn had surprisingly won in Mannheim and has already hurried five points. After all: With Düsseldorf, the third cellar child lost to Bremerhaven on Friday and, as the penultimate, continues to have only one points ahead of Augsburg.

Aev coach Larry Mitchell had against Nuremberg Markus Keller ordered into the goalStrauss husband didn't even sit on the bench. The decisive factor for this decision should have been that anrees could play Hakulinen despite laceration over the eye. Mitchell obviously wanted to offer the nine permitted import players in the field and To do this, the American man out of the squad.

Augsburger Panther in the DEL offspring: Nuremberg starts the game dominant

Nevertheless, Nuremberg started dominant and pushed the guests far into their third. Consequently, the Franks also took the lead, Jeremy McKenna scored from an acute angle (7th). Only after the deficit did the Panther be seen on the offensive every now and then, but were still much more busy with defense work. This did not succeed without errors, Julius Karrer increased to 2-0 for the home side (19th) shortly before the first break.

Augsburg acted too imprecise in his endeavor to score a goal. Often the first passes in the game structure did not arrive, the Ice Tigers were always more thoughtful and intervened in between. The best chance for the AEV until then Luca Tosto, who conquered the window outnumbered, had broken out alone, but then failed to Leon Hungerecker. Otherwise, the offensive was not too little of the panther – which also applied to the power play – to turn the game.

Nuremberg can keep ahead against the AEV

Nuremberg was no longer as superior in the second third as in the first, but managed his two-goal lead. The preliminary decision then fell a second before the siren: Charlie Gerard scored from a distance to 3: 0 (40th).

In this manner it continued after the break. Donald Busdeker hit the linkage on the one hand, on the other, Evan Barratt worried 4-0 (44th). When Florian Elias shortened to 1: 4 (47th), it was only cosmetics of results.

The Panther continues on Sunday with the home game in the sold-out Curt-Frenzel Stadium against Cologne (4.30 p.m.).

Augsburg Panther Keller – Köhler, Reul; Zajac, Schemitsch; McCourt, hit; van der Linde – Louis, Kunyk, Busdeker; Hakulins, Collins, F. Elias; Tosto, bast, baptiste; M. Elias, Zengerle, Oblinger

Goals 1: 0 McKenna (7th), 2: 0 Karrer (19th), 3: 0 Gerard (40th), 4: 0 Barratt (44.), 4: 1 F. Elias (47.).