The Erding Gladiators make up for the 2: 5 defeat in Miesbach with a 5: 4 in Geretsried
Erding - "We need at least three points every weekend", Thomas Vogl had asked before the start of the season.
On the first weekend the trainer of the Erding Gladiators could be satisfied with the yield, because a 2-5 defeat on Friday in Miesbach was followed by a 5-4 victory on Sunday in Geretsried.
One downer, however, was the injury to young player Christoph Furtner.
In Miesbach, the gladiators didn't really have much to report in the first two thirds.
"We owed it to our goalkeeper Christoph Schedlbauer that we were still in the game," said Vogl.
“You saw that we haven't been on the ice that long.” In the final third, however, the game threatened to tip over after the 1: 2 and 2: 3 goals and a shot from the post.
"We would have had the chance to turn the game around, but then we received a few penalties, and if you are outnumbered you just can't win." He was definitely satisfied: "The boys gave everything."
A curiosity that surely only occurs every few years was the 2: 3 when Miesbach's keeper Anian Geratsdorfer ran out of the gate with an indicated penalty against Erding, and his defender Franz Mangold put an unsuccessful back pass into the empty case.
Since there are no own goals in ice hockey, this hit was awarded to Erdinger, who was last on the target (around 20 seconds before) - Marko Babic.
When asked about his rather small squad, Vogl said: “We want to go to the playoffs.
We have 15 very strong players, and if everyone is there, then we can beat everyone. ”They put a lot of emphasis on youth development and he is pleased that there are some promising young talent in his squad.
But the trainer has to do without one of his young boys for a few months.
Christoph Furtner broke his collarbone on Sunday in Geretsried after a fair but ultimately unnecessary check.
Babic, who was responsible for the 1-0 lead, was lucky that he did not injure himself during a rough check from Daniel Merl.
The Geretsrieder received a game penalty.
“We benefited from that, otherwise we probably wouldn't have won,” analyzed Gladiators trainer Vogl.
Because the majority of the gladiators turned a 2: 3 into a 4: 3 after two goals by Daniel Krzizok.
Babic added the 5: 3, the Riverrats could only reduce it to 4: 5.
"The team played well, but was not rewarded in the end against a very strong opponent," said former gladiator coach Rudi Sternkopf, who is now behind the gang in Geretsried.
At the weekend, the gladiators will again have two away games.
Goal: at least three points.
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