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Felix Schütz joins EV Landshut

2020-10-22T08:06:51.733Z


The former DEL professional Felix Schütz, most recently with the Straubing Tigers, is moving to EV Landshut and is the third Erdinger in the Lower Bavaria squad.


The former DEL professional Felix Schütz, most recently with the Straubing Tigers, is moving to EV Landshut and is the third Erdinger in the Lower Bavaria squad.

  • The former DEL professional Felix Schütz changes to the EV Landshut in the DEL 2

  • Together with Dimitri Pätzold and Sebastian Busch, Schütz forms the "Erding Connection" in Landshut

  • Since the future of the DEL is still uncertain, more and more professionals are deciding to switch to the lower classes.

Erding - The “Erding Connection” at the second division ice hockey team EV Landshut has grown.

After Dimitri Pätzold and Sebastian Busch, Felix Schütz has now surprisingly joined Lower Bavaria.

The almost 33-year-old silver medalist from 2018 was most recently without a club and thus unemployed.

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Last season, the Erdinger native worked for the Swedish club IK Oskarshamn and then for the first division club Straubing Tigers.

"The Straubinger wanted to extend with me in November," says Schütz, "but I wanted to wait for the playoffs first."

But then the corona pandemic intervened, the season was canceled and the 32-year-old was left without a club.

“Everything changed from one day to the next,” he says, because the clubs immediately stopped all squad planning for 2020/21.

For Schütz it was first of all about keeping fit.

“That was pretty difficult,” he says.

All that remained was training at home, because "his" Sportpark Schollbach was closed, as were all other fitness temples.

Finally he let his ties to Cologne play.

Erdinger stormed the Haien for two years and collected a total of 90 scorer points in 113 games.

The former national coach Uwe Krupp, now coach in Cologne, made it possible for him to train with.

“They always have ice cream in Cologne throughout the summer, so I take the train up every two weeks for a few days,” he says.

Everywhere the same answer: "Nobody knows what happens next."

Erdinger also asked around abroad, including Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.

Sparta Prague has shown great interest, says Schütz, but in the end he got the same answer everywhere: “Nobody knows what will happen next.

As long as we have to cut the salaries of our local players, there is no need for foreigners to come. ”When it was clear that the situation would hardly change in the foreseeable future, he looked elsewhere.

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Schütz had heard that EV Landshut had rented ice cream in Moosburg and contacted assistant coach Ales Jirik.

The enabled him to participate in training with the second division.

And then everything went pretty quickly.

"I'm not the youngest either," says Schütz with a laugh, who will be 33 years old in just under two weeks.

"It's stupid if I didn't play for a year." And so he reached an agreement with EV Landshut.

But there was initially a small setback, because there were a few corona cases in the team.

"Four or five players tested positive, I was negative," says Schütz.

"We all had to be in quarantine first." Now the hygiene regulations have been tightened even more.

In principle, it is mandatory to wear a mask everywhere.

The crew is divided into two cabins, when entering the fever is measured and the value is entered in a list.

The mask may only be taken off before stepping on the ice surface.

"It is clear that the 2020/21 season will be very difficult, I just hope that we can start soon," says Schütz, who forms a carpool with Pätzold and Busch to Landshut.

No hope of a vaccine anytime soon

He doesn't believe in an imminent vaccine: "I think that's very questionable, with other pandemics it sometimes took up to ten years to find something." But should something really be found soon and should then be a top European club ask him, then it may be that he leaves Lower Bavaria again.

“I have a release clause,” he admits.

"I would like to attack again in one of the top European leagues." Even if he then had to get out of the "Erding connection".

Wolfgang Krzizok

The national division can afford a national player - for 450 euros a month

Because of Corona, things are also going well in German ice hockey.

Only in the regional association is it currently being played, since the beginning of October, the Oberliga and DEL 2 want to start in mid-November, the DEL not until December, although it is questionable whether the highest German league will be played at all.

The DEL has sent all of its players on short-time work.

Some have now chosen the path to the lower leagues, 14 alone last week.

Among other things, Adrian Klein and Nick Latta from Straubing have moved to Weiden in the upper league and Sena Acolatse and Mitchell Heard have moved to upper league promoted Passau - based on loan transactions.

The player must sign an agreement with his new club, which is why these loans are formally transfers.

The contract with the old employer is suspended.

The new contract is provided with various (exit) clauses.

It is important that the player is properly insured.

What is new this season is that short-time work plays a role.

Normally, the proportion of short-time work has to be reduced or the player has to be taken out of it entirely.

Exception: the new job is declared as a € 450 mini job.

Recently, a mini job has not been taken into account when calculating short-time work benefits.

State league team EV Dingolfing can currently afford a national player: 28-year-old Marcel Brandt, a native of Dingolfing, currently in the service of the Straubing Tigers, is now playing as a mini-job for his home club - four leagues lower.

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Source: merkur

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