Rosenheim - For two weeks, the Rosenheim ice hockey players were doomed to watch.
After the quarantine requirement has ended, they will again intervene in the battle for top division points on the first weekend in Advent.
And the task couldn't be more difficult - on Friday evening, at 8 p.m., the star bulls at the front-runner Eisbären Regensburg have to play.
As usual, rosenheim24.de will be reporting live from the game from 8 p.m.
On Friday evening, the schedule would actually have provided Rosenheim's away appearance at EC Peiting.
But the Pfaffenwinkler are not yet allowed on the ice due to quarantine requirements.
For a short time it came to the construction of the game of the polar bears Regensburg against the starbulls.
In the "das Stadtwerk.Donau-Arena" two teams meet,
neither of which have given up a single point in the season so far
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The polar bears (18 points from six games) have already played twice as often as the starbulls (9 points).
Away, the Regensburg coached by Max Kaltenhauser won in Selb (3: 2) and Weiden (4: 1), on their own ice they beat Memmingen (5: 3), Weiden (4: 2), Füssen (5: 2) and Riessersee (4: 1).
The share of the three top strikers in the total of 25 hits so far is impressive.
Peter Flache (9), Nikolaj Gajovsky (6) and Richard Divis (3) share 18 of them
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In total, the trio has already scored 31 points in the six games played!
Sicinski: "Clever and uncomplicated games"
The restart task for the Starbulls couldn't be more difficult.
The team has been training on the ice again since Monday and, according to trainer John Sicinski, is at a good level in terms of stamina: “
Michael Baindl has developed a good home training program and the boys have been hardworking.
I am very satisfied in this regard.
But you can clearly see the interruption in the interaction and the hands are still missing.
But we have to accept the situation now.
We have to play as cleverly and as uncomplicated as possible in order to score points in Regensburg
- and that's what we want! "
The Rosenheimer Tor will be guarded by Andreas Mechel on Friday evening.
Team captain and athletics coach Michael Baindl cannot participate the whole weekend and beyond due to injury.
Two other players have to sit out as a result of positive corona test results
and miss the games in Regensburg and against SC Riessersee,
which players are still unclear.
Reinforcement from Ingolstadt
But the Starbulls still have two aces up their sleeves.
If everything goes well, the Starbulls will have reinforcements available for the two weekend games.
According to OVB home newspapers, the funding license players Samuel Soramies (22) and Garrett Pruden (21) from the cooperation partner Ingolstadt should appear for the Rosenheim company.
The team from Garmisch-Partenkirchen, which will challenge the Starbulls on Sunday from 5 p.m. on the ice of the ROFA Stadium, has already played seven games and captured 13 points.
In the four away games so far, light and shadow have alternated.
In Deggendorf (5: 3) and Peiting (8: 3) coach George Kink and his players celebrated remarkable victories, in Regensburg (1: 4) and Selb (0: 5) they suffered significant defeats.
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