In the middle section alone, seven of the eight goals were scored on Friday evening in the Tölzer Löwen match in Crimmitschau.
In the end, the guests got their 5: 4 victory in the penalty shootout.
Crimmitschau / Bad Tölz
- Even if the Tölzer Löwen were clearly more disciplined at the ETC Crimmitschau on Friday evening than in the previous games - their defensive performance again bothered them.
After a careful start, the Kurstädter conceded four goals from the “superfluous” category in the middle third, so that when the score was 4: 4, they had to go into overtime and then into the penalty shootout.
There, Max French secured the important additional point for the Upper Bavarian 5-4 success.
Kevin Gaudet was satisfied: "There are no easy points in Crimmitschau - both teams could have won today." It was not easy to come back after the 1: 3 deficit, said the Löwen coach, who had special praise: "I'm proud of Luca Tosto, who scored an important goal."
The strange course of the game was indisputable.
A goalless first third was followed by a whopping eight hits, before the offensive stinginess was again rigid towards the end.
Away the starting sequence doesn't seem to be a big problem for the Lions.
There were no major cuts in defensive behavior, nor was there a lack of discipline.
What's more, you were the more noticeable team in the first few minutes.
As the game progressed, this rating turned in favor of the somewhat more active ice pirates, but their goal risk was manageable.
The statisticians counted 16 shots on the side of the home team;
but nothing below that that Maxi Franzreb could not hold.
The Tölzer goalie was initially the most noticeable player in a brisk game without the big highlights.
The possibility of Max French or the exuberant counterattack against Tyler McNeely and Lubor Dibelka did not change anything.
The 3-1 lead of the hosts in the middle of the game was all the more astonishing.
Especially since Thomas Merl shot the Tölzer in the lead shortly after the restart.
Worse still: Immediately after their goal, the Buam had two promising situations to expand the result cushion.
But suddenly it happened very quickly.
A disc loss on the blue line led to a countermove by Scott Timmins and the goalscorer Mathieu Lemay.
Can happen - in contrast to the double strike by Petr Pohl and Lemay four minutes later.
Within just 37 seconds, the lion defense corroded at two key points, which the Saxons knew how to use.
But the Tölzer fought back, shortened in the power play by McNeely, a little later even equalized with Dibelka's counter goal with a finish under the crossbar.
It's just stupid that just 43 seconds later Petr Pohl was criminally neglected when Ole Oleff shot in the goal area.
A mishap that Luca Tosto immediately cleared up to make it 4: 4 this time.
Marco Pfleger had a good chance of scoring the winning goal at the end of an equally balanced final third.
Ultimately, however, a strong Franzreb and Frenchs winning goal decided the match in the penalty shootout.
Crimmitschau - Bad Tölz nP 4: 5 (0: 0, 4: 3, 0: 1, 0: 0)
Goals: 0: 1 (21:30) Merl (Schlager, Morrison), 1: 1 (24:25) Lemay (Timmins), 2: 1 (28:39) Petr Pohl (Demmler, Scalzo), 3: 1 ( 29:16) Lemay (Patrick Pohl), 3: 2 (34:09) McNeely (Martinovic, nurse), 3: 3 (35:08) Dibelka, 4: 3 (35:41) Petr Pohl (Oleff, Pa. Pohl), 4: 4 (42:21) Tosto (Eberharst), 4: 5 (65:00) French (GWG).
- Penalty minutes: Crimmitschau 8, Bad Tölz 8. - Referees: Sven Fischer, Bastian Haupt.
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