The Oberliga match at the Tölzer Löwen started well for EC Peiting. But then, after a 2-0 lead, there was suddenly sand in the gears.
Peiting – The race to qualify for the play-offs, or the best possible placement, is picking up speed. Negligence usually has a more serious impact on the result than in the first half of the season.
A realization that EC Peiting also came to on a weekend that was curious for him. On Friday, the Pfaffenwinkler celebrated an impressive 6-0 victory over neighbours EV Füssen, at the same time the sixth home win in a row. Two days later, the majority of the Tölzer Löwen Tölz impressed the 1271 spectators in the Hacker-Pschorr-Arena. In the end, the team from Isarwinkl came out on top with 6:3 (0:2, 2:0, 4:1) - so they could also look forward to half a dozen home victories without interruption.
EC Peiting loses at Tölzer Löwen with 3:6
The longer time went on, the more Peiting lost his grip on the game. The dominant start could not be maintained despite a quick 2-0 lead. "We're so close to the play-offs, where every point counts. I don't check it, but I guess that's an experience I have to make as a coach," Ty Morris searched in vain for an explanation for his team's unintentional course correction to the worst.
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After a sleepy and error-prone opening phase, the Kurstadt team gradually increased in intensity and ultimately won with a three-goal difference. Even Ty Morris had to admit that. "Tölz played well, we weren't biting enough," the ECP coach summed up. The way Morris lit up the game left little doubt about some of the "buts". The approach of his charges from the second period onwards also did not coincide with the ideas of the former top striker. "I don't know, I don't know – there were enough excuses for the guys today, and they took them."
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The game started to the coach's liking. Felix Brassard appeared at the goal area after only 50 seconds without an opponent and sank the first shot on goal of the game to make it 1-0. The Lions were unsettled by this and made mistakes. During a Peitingen power play, Henrik Sihling failed to make an easily possible clearance. Christian Hanke got the shot, Marco Habermann dusted off – 2:0 (4th). His team had "started well" and presented ice hockey "how we are supposed to play," Morris praised.
Tölzer Löwen digest Peitinger's impact hit
But the Tölzer digested the early hits and gradually pulled themselves together to fight back. After a solo, Steven Deeg of the Peitingers could only be stopped by a foul, Oliver Noack only hit the protector of ECP goalkeeper Konrad Fiedler, who in turn shifted the goal a little later in extreme distress - according to the assessment of the referees intentionally. Peiting wobbled briefly, but the two-goal lead still held. It could have gone differently – and thus to the "but". Daniel Holzmann, who had just returned from the penalty box, was unable to take advantage of his huge chance after a break, and Brett Ouderkirk's technically fine feint would undoubtedly have deserved more than the abrupt end at the schooner of Lions goalie Enrico Salvarani. "You have to push that aside and process it even faster, instead of being sad on the board that it didn't go in," Morris clarified.
As it was, however, the turn for the worse was inevitable for the Peitingers. Bad Tölz scored two goals in the second period (27th, 37th), in each of which the shooters were unexpectedly allowed to take advantage of the follow-up shot. "We completely lost focus, played too cautiously," the coach complained.
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In the final section, the ECT was "ice-cold", but they themselves were "always running behind". Brassard brought the ECP back to 42-44 (3th) after two more goals from the Isarwinkler (4nd, 49th) and thus moved past Ouderkirk to the top of the internal scorers' standings on this evening. But the "Buam" ran and fought, always finding the goal. They also had the more stable goalie that night in Salvarani. "Deserved three points for Tölz," Morris summed up this game.
Statistics:Tölzer Löwen 6
EC Peiting 3(0:2, 2:0, 4:1)1st period: 0:1 (0:50) Brassard (Hanke), 0:2 (3
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30)
Habermann (Hanke, Brassard/5-4). 2nd period: 1:2 (26:23) Sahanoglu (Kästele, Noack), 2:2 (36:52) Fissekis (Schlager, Fichtner). 3rd period: 3-2 (41:24) Schüpping (Hörmann, Deeg), 4-2 (43:41) Schmidpeter (Schüpping, Edfelder/5-4), 4-3 (48:00) Brassard (Hanke, van der Linde), 5-3 (51:03) Hörmann (Piiponen, Noack), 6-3 (59:41) Schmidpeter (Spöttel, Schüpping/empty-net-goal). Penalty minutes: Bad Tölz 6, Peiting 10. Attendance: 1271.