No luck on the puck against clever Dresdeners

Third defeat in a row: The Tölzer Löwen have no luck in the home game against the Eislöwen Dresden and lose 4-1.

Bad Tölz - no success without a sense of achievement.

Several promising solo attempts, three shots in the post, good chances lost, panes cracked at the end: The Tölzer Lions are actually a little bit lucky at the moment.

“No luck with the puck,” as coach Kevin Gaudet repeats like a prayer wheel.

And so his team suffered their third defeat in a row with the 1: 4 at home against Clevere Dresdner on Friday.

Exhausted top performers

A game they shouldn't have lost.

But they didn't care about their superiority, didn't use a single one of six power play situations, and with the Eislöwen from Dresden they hosted a team that demonstrated the other extreme: the first majority game of the guests and the lead straight away.

Nick Huard made it 1-0.

"That played into our cards," says the Greilinger coach of the Dresden team, Andreas Brockmann.

“We ran after a deficit again,” complains Gaudet.

He noticed a certain exhaustion of his top performers anyway.

Reid Gardiner, Marco Pfleger and Max French have been without a scorer point for two games, Pfleger let himself be carried away to a rare battle of words, received a ten-minute penalty, and Manuel Edfelder was injured: he stopped playing with a lower body injury from the second third.

Mario Lamoureux stepped in for Tyler McNeely, who was supposed to make his comeback after injury, but is prevented privately.

But Lamoureux went empty-handed in the third game in a row.

There was no shortage of opportunities.

The Tölzer had the better start, Kenney Morrison's bullet wasn't missing much, French failed to Eislöwen keeper Riku Helenius - like many Tölzer after him.

"It was the third time in a row that we had a strong goalkeeper," said Gaudet.

The second power play also passed without a goal.

Behind Maximilian Franzreb in the Tölzer Kasten, however, it struck 19 seconds after the start of the Dresden power play.

And a little later Elvijs Biezais increased to 2-0.

Lions have a hard time scoring goals

The Lions just had a hard time scoring goals.

Only when attacking the third row of storms shortly before the end of the third it went very quickly.

Lubor Dibelka reduced the score to 1: 2.

But that was the only glimmer of hope.

The Lions forgave more situations in the majority, more high-profile players, were again defeated by Helenius or the veterans on the Dresden defense, who cleverly defended the lead that Jordan Knackstedt built in the middle third and Nick Huard shortly before the end.

In the last section the lions wanted to know again.

“We tried everything,” says Gaudet.

But Tölz didn't put a disc in the goal.

The "puck luck" was missing.

Tölzer Löwen - Dresdner Eislöwen 1: 4 (1: 2, 0: 1, 0: 1)

Goals:

0: 1 (15:43) Huard (Knackstedt / Hanusch, 5-4), 0: 2 (19:02) Biezais (Filin / Kramer), 1: 2 (19:28) Dibelka (Schlager / Tosto) , 1: 3 (34:37) Knackstedt (Dotzler / Knobloch), 1: 4 (58:01) Huard (Filin / Biezais) -

penalty minutes:

Tölz 6 + 10 (. Pfleger, unsportl Verh.), Dresden 12, -

Referees:

Lukas Kohlmüller, Aleksander Polaczek.