The squad is getting smaller and smaller, a win against Dresden was not possible: The Tölzer Löwen are defeated 3: 4 in the home game on Sunday evening.
Bad Tölz - They took out the goalkeeper, bit, scratched and fought for every inch of ice.
If the Tölzer Löwen had won this game too, the saga of the small but fine squad would have become part of the DEL 2 story.
A few minutes were missing for this.
Tölz defended himself self-sacrificingly and with his mini-squad offered unusually high resistance.
In the end, however, the Dresdner Eislöwen celebrated a 4-3 success with their coach Andreas Brockmann.
A battered Oliver Ott, a freshly damaged Luca Tosto (see below), and already there were only two blocks left that fearlessly opposed the Saxons.
Dresden knew what to do with a majority of seven players.
The ice lions were looking for speed, demanding a lot from the Tölz team from the start.
With fresh legs, however, the responsibility for playful accents initially lay with the spa townspeople.
Great fight, no yield: Lions lose 3: 4
Reid Gardiner narrowly missed the goal, while goalie Riku Helenius quickly intervened at the central finish of Lubor Dibelka.
But then the tour for Tölz.
Prepared by a player who is irreplaceable for the team due to his reliability.
Andreas "Blacky" Black is in an impressive form.
The Holzkirchner, who recently appeared as a goal scorer twice, rounded the Dresden case before putting his backhand on Mario Lamoureux - 1-0.
"Strong first third, we could have led 3-0," said Kevin Gaudet.
The strong performance of the US boy in Kaufbeuren was by no means a flash in the pan.
Despite fine hands, Lamoureux is not too good for the rough either.
Again and again he plowed the gangs around windows, and the 32-year-old doesn't shy away from duels anyway.
As a reward, the second lion hit went on the cap of the veteran.
In the majority, Dibelka held his trowel in a Lamoureux shot immediately in front of Helenius - 2-2.
Before that, there was the equalization with Filin's shot from an acute angle into the short corner and the first advantage of the guests, in which Toni Ritter came decisively to the target.
It was also a phase in which the guests steamed up, started early and drove the Tölzers into the parade with their burning thighs with robust checks.
The door to the exchange bank now opened constantly.
“The tank was empty then,” Gaudet knew.
Silly mistakes, but not a reproach
Anyone who suspected evil after the 2: 1 of the guests was taught better.
The guys also used their next power play.
This time, according to Dibelka's ingenious hook, Gardiner was one of three lions who stormed towards Helenius unmolested.
In the front the forces were easy enough.
Again and again Tölz started, even an outnumbered break over Dibelka was possible.
At the rear, however, the rooms could no longer be consistently compressed.
"Stupid mistakes, but you can't blame them," commented the coach.
Roope Rantas 3: 3 would have been bearable.
But when Lamoureux let Jordan Knackstedt hurry away, the top scorer of the Saxons pushed in for a 4-3 winner.
The lions were unlucky with two post hits, and Dibelka's last solo no longer led to the deserved equalization.
Tölzer Löwen - Dresdner Eislöwen 3: 4 (1: 1, 0: 0, 2: 3)
Goals:
1: 0 (8:43) Lamoureux (Schwarz / Gardiner), 1: 1 (19:24) Filin (Hanusch / Huard), 1: 2 (41:26) Ritter (Knackstedt / Lavallée), 2: 2 (43:01) Dibelka (Lamoureux / Martinovic, 5-4), 3: 2 (49:08) Gardiner (Lamoureux / Dibelka, 5-4), 3: 3 (50:46) Ranta (Kramer / Ritter), 3: 4 (55:22) Knackstedt (Filin / Lavallee), -
penalty minutes:
Tölz 6 - Dresden 6, -
referee:
Holzer, Kalnik.