Tölzer Löwen in quarantine until December 5th

Five players from the Tölzer Löwen DEL2 club tested positive for Corona after their most recent home game against the Lausitzer Füchse.

13 other actors and four carers have also been quarantined by the health department until December 5.

• Five players at the Tölzer Löwen were infected with corona.

• Another 13 actors and four supervisors also have to go into quarantine.

• The two DEL2 games this weekend and the match next Tuesday have been postponed.

Bad Tölz

- It was in principle certain that corona cases would also occur in the DEL2 and that the Tölzer Lions would not remain unmolested.

Anything else would be a stroke of luck that is difficult to put into words.

But right now - in the middle of the team's so important finding phase, made necessary by the limited preparation?

Ironically after the first weekend with two wins, the virus, which was apparently transmitted during the Sunday game against the Lausitzer Füchse, offended the Tölzer.

It doesn't matter, says Christian Donbeck.

"It will hit everyone." The team gave away two points against Bietigheim, but is otherwise absolutely on target.

“We're just as there as last year,” the managing director puts into perspective.

It is much more important to deal with the situation "sensibly".

Ice hockey is currently not the top priority.

Rather, it is about the players, their families and their social contacts.

“We don't want Bad Tölz to become a hot spot,” explains the 48-year-old.

No speculation about resumption of gaming

Donbeck regards any assumptions as to when the game can be resumed as superfluous.

For the time being, the team is in quarantine until the middle of next week.

The TEG boss did not want to communicate the number of those lion cracks who fell through the grid in the PCR test on Tuesday.

“Some,” he says.

Donbeck finds the fact that the quarantine period for the infected actors is two days shorter than for the rest of the population curious. But that may change with the retesting on Friday (end of the incubation period).

"Only then can we say exactly what is going on." What happens after the original quarantine has expired, without exception, happens in consultation with the health department.

Health department orders quarantine until December 5th

An official notice came from there early on Friday afternoon.

"Five actors of the Tölzer Löwen have become infected with the corona virus.

They now have to be in isolation, 13 other players and four supervisors have to be in quarantine as contact persons I, ”said press spokeswoman Marlis Peischer.

During the course of Friday, the categorization of other participants continues.

Peischer: “The three players who were not present during the infectious period and the four referees are not in quarantine.

The latter were classified as contact persons II.

The quarantine for the players categorized as contact persons I ends on December 5th. "

The next three games of the lions were canceled.

Donbeck does not want to speculate whether ice hockey can be played again on the first weekend in December in Bad Tölz.

He said he was right in the preparation when he briefly discharged the Memmingen Indians again.

"I'm not going to be traded," emphasizes the managing director.

The priority is "that the players have no sequelae, we all stay healthy and bring the season to the best possible end."

For this you have to be “flexible” and “demonstrate unity” among the DEL2 clubs.

And practice the opposite of the controversy this week.

The negative decisions from Kassel and Bietigheim, respectively, regarding the request of the Corona-stricken EV Landshut not to have to compete with a barely competitive mini-squad pissed Donbeck: "I find it impossible how unfriendly some clubs treat each other at this time . ”So you don't even need to talk about solidarity.

Donbeck advocates realignment of DEL 2

What will come after this season is unclear.

The Löwen official is assuming massive cuts in the tried and tested league structure.

You have to make decisions among the shareholders for the “next ten years”.

Many companies will have to backtrack or even capitulate when it comes to sponsoring as long as they send employees on short-time work or have been otherwise affected.

Donbeck advocates splitting the league into north and south with the involvement of ambitious top division clubs.

It is important to convey the attractiveness of the sport to the fans again.

Ice hockey lives from emotion.

And where is there more of it than in real local derbies?

The aim must be to keep smaller clubs alive and thereby keep the platforms for training young players upright.

If you fail to take this step, according to Donbeck, things will look bleak with ice hockey: "Then we will lose popular sport and thus automatically at some point also top-class sport."

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