The Tölzer Löwen are surprised by their dominance at 5-1 in Ravensburg.
Ravensburg / Bad Tölz - Two away wins silence burgeoning criticism and minimize worries about the condition of the team.
After the final sprint win on Tuesday, the Tölzer Löwen did not leave any doubts about their superiority at 5: 1 in Ravensburg in any phase of the game.
"A great away win", even Kevin Gaudet was surprised by the dominance of the team.
Or as the Tölzer coach later put it in a somewhat more trivial way: "Big heart, big balls."
Next away win for the Tölzer Löwen - and how
It is up to the 19-year-old to decide whether Oliver Ott will become a ripped-off goalscorer.
But: The development is correct.
Ott scored three goals in February - all of the goals of the season in a short time.
The way he took the lead in Ravensburg was impressive: Served by Philipp Schlager, he briefly pulled the pane close to his body in order to later put it in the mesh with the blink of an eye from his wrist.
A head start that almost always inspires the small Tölz squad.
The other way around, there have recently been three home defeats after 0: 1 deficit.
So the lead is a big plus, but by no means the decisive factor.
That was primarily to be found among the import players and in comparison with the goalkeepers.
Jonas Langmann was strong.
Are you so used to the EVR goalie and meanwhile brought the 29-year-old a commitment in Nuremberg.
But Max Franzreb had the lead in the goalkeeper standings.
He parried John Henrion's blast from half-distance, closed the corner against Alexander Dosch at the last moment, and had a number of other good saves.
In short: it held up outstandingly.
Among the contingent players, only Henrion was conspicuous on the Ravensburger side through constant efforts.
The Tölzer quartet, however, convinced across the board.
Kenney Morrison was the dominant defense chief, Tyler McNeely toiled and ensured balance in the face-off statistics, French could hardly be stopped, hurrying away from his opponents again and again by body deceit.
And then Reid Gardiner: Jürgen Rumrich's name should be at the top of his list when the new managing director has to start exploring contractual matters.
Gardiner did in the CHG-Arena what he has been doing since his arrival in Tölz, which was slightly delayed due to an injury break: he scores goals.
Almost always precision closures, which usually find those square centimeters of the goal that the goalie cannot cover.
First he made it 2-0 from a half-right position, and at the beginning of the final section he did not let Langmann the tenth of a second to seal the ice surface against flat shots with the schooners.
At 5: 1: the contours of humiliation
This was followed by the typical chronology of an ice hockey game, in which a team has much more to offer.
It took Marco Pfleger less than a minute to return Calvin Pokonrny's goal.
Lubor Dibelka's underpaid goal to make it 5-1 already had the contours of humiliation.
Soon after, the tower stars survived.
“I was a little surprised at how much energy we had,” admits Gaudet.
His team played "very concentrated and focused" for over 60 minutes.
EV Ravensburg - Tölzer Löwen 1: 5 (0: 1.0: 1.1: 3)
Goals:
0: 1 (15:02) Ott (Dibelka / Schlager), 0: 2 (28:03) Gardiner (Schlager / Eberhardt), 0: 3 (42:47) Gardiner (Morrison / French, 5-4) , 1: 3 (48:04) Hospelt (Samanski / Stiefenhofer), 1: 4 (49:00) nurse (Gardiner / French), 1: 5 (51:53) Dibelka (Schlager / Morrison, 4-5), -
Penalty minutes:
Ravensburg 4, Tölz 6, -
Referees:
Holzer, Schütz.
