Most of them expected a Dorfen defeat in Miesbach.
With 14 goals conceded, however, not.
Dorfen / Miesbach - Victory and lesson for the ESC puck hunters: After the 4-2 success in the home game against TSV Peißenberg, the ice pirates came under the wheels of the elite team of TEV Miesbach with 0:14 on Sunday.
However, the Isenstädter had traveled to the Oberland without currently eight injured and sick regular players, including Christoph Obermeier, Lukas Miculka and Timo Borrmann.
"We expected that we would get a clear, if not so big defeat with the previously unbeaten front runner", emphasized ice hockey boss Manfred Detterbeck.
Before the game, Miesbach had 12 points after four games, now it's 15 points.
Detterbeck countered the occasional objections as to why no attempt was made to cancel the game in view of the precarious personnel situation: "We want to keep our game obligations upright as far as possible."
Meanwhile, the Miesbach moderator of the press conference had initially pointed out that there were also six failures, which, however, objectively determined, had little impact on the one-sided game.
Miesbach sent 14 field players and two goalkeepers with an average age of 26.6 years on the ice.
The Dorfen squad comprised 16 + 2 men with an average age of 23.4 years.
The first TEV series with the two Czech attackers Buhomil Slavicek (3 goals) and Filip Kokoska (2), their native compatriot and ex-Rosenheim second division player Dusan Frosch (2) and Athanasios Fissekis (2) have the ESC almost alone with nine hits shot down.
In Miesbach, the difficult season as a result of the Corona Pademie was also generally discussed, such as the cancellation of the players from Ulm-Neuulm to the game in Waldkraiburg.
ESC trainer Franz Steer blew the same horn and emphasized that the fifth important preparatory game in Dingolfing could not be carried out because of the local hotspot.
The uncertainty caused by the increasing Covid-19 cases will obviously have a very negative impact on the season this year.
"I mostly only have professional players, three teachers, two educators - they don't have to make a living from ice hockey," said Steer, who then added humorously to subliminally: "In Miesbach it will probably be a little different." If something happens, so the coach from Dorfen further, there could be a problem, even if the district office and the BEV release the game.
Little comments were made on the course of the game, probably in view of current fears.
For the game in Dorfen against Peißenberg, the ex-ESC and new TSV coach Randy Neal referred to his also young, newly formed team.
Georg Brennauer