Rosenheim - The most successful team of the past few weeks has been a guest of the league's strongest team, the opponents in the tableau separated by a single point: The home game of the Starbulls Rosenheim against the Eisbären Regensburg on Friday in the ROFA stadium is a real cracker - with a decisive one Character in terms of the final placement before the start of the playoff in three weeks.
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There are still six game days left in the championship round of the Ice Hockey Oberliga Süd, and the final sprint in the fight for the best possible placement for the playoffs promises pure excitement. The third-last Rosenheim round home game against Regensburg on Friday evening is of particular importance: With 80 points, ranking fourth, the Mangfall Starbulls can overtake the polar bears from the Danube (81 points, second place in the table).
After the team of the Memmingen Indians leading the table for many weeks confidently with a large cushion of points recently went empty several times, the "place in the sun" suddenly seems no longer unreachable with only four (Rosenheim) or three points (Regensburg) behind. On the other hand, the SC Riessersee team, which is getting stronger and stronger, is forced to intervene in the fight for fourth place in order to get the home advantage for the playoff round of 16.
The Starbulls' upholstery on the Werdenfelser, where they are playing on the penultimate matchday, is still six points thick, but has shrunk by the same amount in the past three weeks.
However, Starbulls head coach John Sicinski is clearly looking ahead: “It is up to us to go second in the table in the playoffs. That is our goal, and we want to take the first step with a home win on Friday against Regenburg. ” It has worked twice in this season. With 7: 3 and 4: 0, the successes were quite clear in favor of the Starbulls. Things got tighter at the games in Regensburg, where the Starbulls once had the upper hand 3: 2 during the main round and once lost 3: 4 after penalty shootout and remained without points in the first leg of the championship round at 3: 5.
That game was the prelude to a polar bear series of nine victories in a row, which ended only last Sunday against SC Riessersee (1: 4). Since the table runners-up were only 13 field players available. Injuries and a flu epidemic forced Peter Flache and Richard Divis to drop two of the three top scorers in Regensburg, as well as Heider, Weber, Keresztury, Tausch, Mühlbauer, Sokolov, Bühler, Klaus, Diel, Herrmann and Zitzer. However, more than half of these 13 (!) Failed players should be back in Rosenheim on Friday evening.
Defender Tobias Draxinger is absent from the Starbulls due to illness. Forwards Tadas Kumeliauskaus, Enrico Henriquez-Morales and Henry Wellhausen are still missing. With Michael Fröhlich, who was able to take part in the training again, the decision is made for a possible comeback after the final training. In order to be able to offer as many as four storm series as possible, John Sicinski wants to nominate actors from the DNL team (only plays on Sunday). The Rosenheim goal will be guarded by Andreas Mechel in the top game against Regensburg.
With the Eisbären Regensburg, the best team of the championship round so far presents itself on Friday evening in the Rosenheim ROFA stadium. It is hard to believe that the team was still in the penultimate position in the table in mid-November and thus outside the championship ranks. Since the resignation of Igor Pavlov and the installation of Maximilian Kaltenhauser as head coach, the polar bears have now fully fulfilled their role as favorites for the ascent.
Regardless, the Starbulls want to continue their series of eleven home wins in a row on Friday against the Donaustädter. If this succeeds, whether after 60 minutes or as last Sunday against Selb (4: 3 after extra time) only afterwards, the tabular overtaking maneuver with the polar bears would have succeeded - and the "first step for second place mentioned by John Sicinski the final settlement ”.
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Source: rosenheim24.de
