Strong performance, many chances, but the happy end was still missing: At SC Riessersee, EC Peiting had to admit defeat in extra time on Friday evening.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - It would be really boring if this derby were a normal ice hockey game now that it has to do without spectators.
Luckily it wasn't, and that was due to the 32nd minute in the Oberliga game between SC Riessersee and EC Peiting, the final score later 2: 1 for the SCR after extra time.
But nobody could have guessed that.
Here's what happened: Nardo Nagtzaam, top striker at ECP, crouched on the ice - and somehow no one had noticed exactly how he got into that position.
Only the cameras cleared up in the third break: The television pictures showed a check by SCR defender Tom Horschel, who met Nagtzaam at the moment when he was about to turn around.
That was certainly a lot of bad luck and not a malicious attack either.
But coach Sebastian Buchwieser later pointed out at the press conference that his player had to be sewn.
The rules provide for a game penalty for such consequences.
The hosts' representatives saw it differently, saw more of a clean check, maybe a small offense, two minutes.
Tom Horschel still had to get off the ice - and the big poaching began.
EC Peiting: 40 minutes the superior team
What happened in the 40 minutes after that can best be compared to a festival shooting range.
You aim unbelievably often with these air rifles, which have a large dispersion.
This is what it looked like on the ice.
Bang, bang, bang, it's all over.
It was only Uli Maurer in extra time that lifted the puck over the Peitingen goalkeeper Florian Hechenrieder to make it 2-1.
Maurer, that's one of those "rabbits who played in a higher class", as Buchwieser calls them.
In the case of Maurer even DEL, he was German champion with Munich, the EHC, and is a club icon there.
But well, back to this check by Tom Horschel and the consequences, the rather serious ones.
Because such a penalty results in a five-minute shortfall.
Peiting and a man more often shot at Christian Schneider's goal, the puck even danced once on the Cha-Cha-Cha goal line, but chose the wrong direction at Chassé.
He made himself comfortable next to the gate.
Also because of this phase, coach Buchwieser saw his team “40 minutes ahead”.
That was true, you only have to exclude two solo attempts by the Riesserseer.
Robin Soudek shot one over the gate, Hechenrieder parried the other.
The goalkeepers shaped the game that evening.
Once Hechenrieder was lying on the puck a few meters from his goal.
Another time, shortly before the end, Riessersee's Christian Schneider stormed out of the gate like an epee fencer and tried to hit the puck.
Both conceded one goal each.
The 1-0 win for Peitinger (29th) was achieved by Lukas Gohlke in the majority, a deflected shot and the merit for a very strong phase at the beginning of the second period.
The equalizer (32nd) was Hechenrieder's only unfortunate moment.
When Eetu-Ville Arkiomaa slid the puck through the schooner and over the goal line.
Happens.
Peiting deserved more than one point.
But Buchwieser gladly took one point with him (especially after 3: 8 in the first duel) and spoke of a “positive evening”.
Statistics:
SC Riessersee - EC Peiting nV 2: 1 (0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 0, 1: 0): 1st third: no goals.
2nd third: 0: 1 (28:05) Gohlke (Morris, Heger / 5-4), 1: 1 (31:06) Arkiomaa (Maurer, Vollmer).
Third third: no goals.
Extension: 2: 1 (63:15) Maurer.
Penalty minutes: Riessersee 9 plus playing time for Horschel, Peiting 2. Spectators: none.
