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Debacle without resistance: After 15 minutes it was 0:4, after 30 minutes the white and blue went down 0:9.
Even a change in goalkeeper did not prevent the Riesserseer oath of revelation.
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The playoff game in Hanover turned into a disgrace for SC Riessersee.
In the end it will even reach double digits.
Hanover – The SC Riessersee ice hockey players traveled a full 700 kilometers to force game four in the series against the Hanover Indians.
But as soon as they hit the ice, these bold hopes vanished into thin air.
After an embarrassing first third, the white and blue were already 0:5 behind, which ended in an embarrassing 1:10 defeat in the playoff round of 16.
Pat Cortina had made a clear announcement to his young team before the game: little things would decide this series.
He was wrong from the start.
The SCR never presented itself on an equal footing.
After just nine minutes, the visitors' defensive allocation wasn't right: captain Simon Mayr was left alone with two opponents, and Igor Bacek opened the scoring.
There was no improvement in sight, instead a horror series continued: The white and blue lost the goal in their own power play, Robin Palka increased for the Indians.
The Werdenfels team only converted one of their eight outnumbered situations in this series into something countable.
After just eleven minutes, the team had to climb a mountain as high as the Zugspitze.
SC Riessersee goes down in Hanover: 0:5 after 16 minutes
There was no real rebellion to be seen as a result.
Robin Soudek's solo through three Hanoverians was more like a desperate attempt.
However, the SCR top scorer had to be given credit for even trying.
As a result, that definitely didn't apply to all of his teammates.
Branislav Pohanka must have been very surprised at how alone he was at the face-off.
There was no Werdenfelser to be seen within a radius of two meters – the score was 3-0 after 14 minutes.
The game was apparently already decided for the Riesserseer team.
There was no sign of body language, their heads hung on the floor.
But there was no escape from this horror film.
The Indians were hungry for more and really got going: the third goal was followed by a fourth.
Andreas Mechel, who had problems with the unfamiliar terrain, had enough of the game and went to the substitutes' bench.
But the goalkeeper was definitely not the problem that evening and Michael Boehm was not to be envied.
As soon as he was on the ice, the score was 0:5.
Hannover Indians – SC Riessersee 10:1 (5:0, 4:0, 1:1)
Hanover:
Jaeger – Ettwein, Möller;
Brass, Hausinger;
Schmitz, Pohl;
Kiss – D. Palka, Wolter, R. Palka;
Christmann, Salituro, Gron;
Bacek, Pohanka, Varttinen;
Ruckdäschel, Stumpe, Lundh Hahnebeck
SCR:
Mechel/Boehm – Pietsch, Schmid;
Allavena, Roach;
Mayr, Linden;
Köttstorfer – Veber, Soudek, Bader;
Gerg, Kircher, Schröpfer;
Pronin, Graham, Zawatsky
Referees:
John-Darren Laudan, Achim Moosberger
Viewers:
4608
Goals:
1:0 (9:14) Bacek (Pohanka, Varttinnen), 2:0 (11:25) R. Palka (Ettwein), 3:0 (14:36) Pohanka (Bacek, Varttinen), 4:0 (15:02) Brass (Salituro, Gron), 5:0 (16:36) D. Palka (R. Palka, Salituro/5-4), 6:0 (20:19) Varttinen (Bacek), 7: 0 (21:49) R. Palka (Möller, Salituro/5-4), 8:0 (22:01) Ruckdäschel (Gron, Stumpe), 9:0 (28:46) Varttinen (Pohanka, Bacek), 9 :1 (54:01) Köttstorfer (Gerg, Schröpfer), 10:1 (59:05) Stumpe (Lundh Hahnebeck, Ettwein/5-4)
Penalties:
Hannover 10 – SCR 12
The ice hockey players worked for months towards the playoffs, putting hours and hours into the sport.
However, the SCR fans who had traveled with them saw an unequal exchange of blows on the ice in Lower Saxony.
The guests staggered from one corner to the other, just waiting for the next blow.
Unable to resist, Cortina's boy's frustration was written all over his face.
Robin Veber skipped the break interview, but a single sentence, which Hanover's Joe-Richard Kiss uttered, would have been enough: "We didn't expect that."
Cortina's speech has no effect: SC Riessersee goes down in Hanover
The speech in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen dressing room was short; the players were back on the ice two minutes before the restart.
They could have used a few instructions, after just 19 seconds the disc bounced back into Boehm's box.
So it went on.
Anselm Gerg went to the penalty box and the Indians provided an object lesson in how outnumbered situations are played out - the score was 7-0.
Cortina couldn't take it anymore and folded up its hopelessly inferior players.
An announcement that caught one's ear and disappeared again with a breath of air: 0:8.
Shortly before the end of the second third, a well-travelled SCR fan's patience broke: he wandered around half the stadium just to get behind the bench of his beloved club.
There he gave the players a good opinion until a steward led him to the exit.
Only a few die-hard supporters supported their team until the bitter end.
The Sprade TV commentators from Hanover summed up the debacle aptly: “Every training session is more exciting to comment on.” SC Riessersee is eliminated from the playoffs with a bang.
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