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2020-02-07T09:10:39.943Z


Where does the path of the Erding Gladiators lead?


Where does the path of the Erding Gladiators lead?

Erding - After a successful sprint, the Erding Gladiators are now in sixth place in the top league gear round. If this place is kept, the team has qualified directly for the playoffs and can avoid the pre-playoffs. It would therefore be very important to continue to score points this weekend. However, the grapes hang tonight (8 p.m.) in the home game against the top division ERC Sonthofen as high as on Sunday (5:30 p.m.) with the old rival EHC Klostersee.

Erding against Sonthofen, memories of the 2010/11 season are awakened when both teams delivered a gripping playoff final for the Bavarian championship and the associated promotion to the league. In front of almost 3000 spectators in the Erdinger ice rink, Sonthofen had the better end in the decisive game with 3: 1 goals. The Bulls were champions but gave up the climb a few days later, so the gladiators moved up. While the Erdinger fell back to the national league a few years later, the Bulls later made it to the top and have now established themselves in the top division. Only with bad luck did they slip into the Oberliga gearing round this year and are therefore considered a top favorite in this round.

The storm of Sonthofen is top class with the Latvian Edgars Homjakovs, the Czech Ondrej Havlicek, the Austrian-born German-Finnish Santeri Ovaska, the German-Polish Filip Stopinski, the German-Canadian Jayden Schubert, the German-Czech Adam Skala, or also Home grown Marc Sill, one of the few players in the Bulls team who was there in 2011.

The defense also has above-average players like the two German-Czechs Daniel Maly and Vladimir Kames and Lukas Slavetinsky. The 38-year-old was in the service of the Erding Jets from 1999 to 2001. Slavetinsky has played almost 100 DEL games in his career, has stood on the ice with almost 800 games in the DEL2 and around 250 matches in the third division.

According to Erding's trainer Thomas Vogl, his team will play the Bulls from Sonthofen almost identically to the 5-2 success in Höchstadt. Goalkeeper Christoph Schedlbauer only wants to be back on ice next week, as do the battered Florian Zimmermann and Martin Dürr. "They'd rather stay out this weekend than play again too early and then drop out in the long term," says the gladiator coach. Lukas Krämmer, who was recently absent for professional reasons, is back again.

"We are tackling the top favorite of the league in the same way as in Höchstadt," announced Vogl. “We want to keep the game tight and open as long as possible. They are beatable and we are not afraid. ”For him, Homjakovs and Havlicek are“ the exceptional players for this league ”.

The gate of the gladiators will be guarded today by 17-year-old Menno Bergmeister, who will not be available on Sunday in Klostersee, however, because the U 20 will need him to play difficult games in Munich. As a result, either Andreas Gerlspeck or Thomas Mende will try to keep his box clean.

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Source: merkur

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