The Starbulls Rosenheim lost their last main round game in the ice hockey Oberliga Süd on Tuesday evening against the Blue Devils Weiden in extra time.
After regular playing time it was 2-2.
The game was no longer relevant for the final placements of the Starbulls.
In the simultaneous parallel games, however, the decision about the Rosenheim playoff opponent in the quarter-finals was made: It is Deggendorfer SC.
The first series duel - three wins are necessary to advance to the semi-finals - will take place next Tuesday in Rosenheim's ROFA Stadium (game starts at 7.30 p.m.).
The press release in full:
That the
Starbulls Rosenheim
finish
the main round of the
ice hockey Oberliga Süd
as third in the table has been certain for a long time.
The
Blue Devils Weiden
still had a small chance to improve to ninth place in the table, but for which a
three-point success
in regular time would have been necessary.
Whether
Weiden will be
in the
playoff quarter-finals
(if so, then against the table top Eisbären Regensburg) will be decided next weekend.
Then the
Blue Devils
will meet
the
EC Peiting
in the pre-playoff (two leg and one second leg)
.
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The
Starbulls
missed numerous important players in the last game of the main round with Florian Krumpe, Maximilian Vollmayer, Michael Baindl, Curtis Leinweber, Tobias Meier and Timo Bakos.
Head coach John Sicinski
still sent four strikes into the race and gave numerous young talent a chance.
At first, the home side were overwhelmingly superior and deservedly took the lead.
After a
nice combination via Kyle Gibbons and Dominik Daxlberger
, Simon Heidenreich met over the shoulder of
guest keeper Luca Endres
to make it 1-0 (7th).
After that, the guests from Upper Palatinate came into play better and better.
Marco Habermann finally equalized to make it 1-1 when he headed for the Rosenheim goal from the side and
cheated
the puck from a tight angle past
Starbulls goalkeeper Andreas Mechel
over the line (15th).
In a second part of the game with slight optical advantages in favor of the home side, Marius Schmidt used a Weiden outnumbered game to make it 1: 2 (35th).
Shortly before the second third
break
,
Bobby Slavicek
, also in the majority,
equalized to
2-2
after a pass from Beppo Frank and Dennis Schütt (39th).
Slavicek had previously failed at the Weiden goal post (37th).
In the balanced final third, Simon Heidenreich, who was heading for the guest goal alone, could have scored the Rosenheim winning goal in the closing stages, but
goalkeeper Endres
saved the
match
(57th).
An inglorious highlight was a stick check by Weiden's Neal Samanski in the face of Dennis Schütt, who was rightly punished with a match penalty (42nd).
However, the
Starbulls
were unable to capitalize on
the subsequent overpayment
phase.
+++ The live ticker of the game for reading (plus article) +++
The extension lasted only 40 seconds.
Then
Edgars Homjakovs
backhanded Jonas Stettmer, who came into play for Andreas Mechel at the beginning of the third period, with a clever
backhand
finish
to make it 2: 3
.
For John Sicinski, the end
result that evening
was of secondary importance: “Despite the many failures, it was a good performance by us.
The many young players really did their job very well ”.
Table constellation unchanged
From
Rosenheim's point of view
, the course of two games played at the same time that evening was
exciting
.
Since the SC Riessersee in Selb and the Deggendorfer SC in Füssen each just lost 2: 3, the
table constellation has not changed
.
As third in the table, the
Starbulls
meet
Deggendorf SC, who remains in sixth
place,
in the first playoff round.
The series begins on March 23 with a
home game in Rosenheim
at 7.30 p.m.
Other dates are March 26th and 28th and, if necessary, March 30th and April 1st.
These corona rules apply to the playoffs in the major league
Due to the
pandemic situation
, the
playoffs of the ice hockey league will
initially
take place internally
in the
south and north seasons
.
So it doesn't start with a round of 16 made up of 16 teams, but rather with internal quarter-finals with eight teams each.
So one master each of the
upper league squadrons North and South is
determined.
Afterwards, the two champions (or those placed in the playoffs who are eligible for promotion) will meet in a
promotion
final
to DEL 2
.
All four rounds are played in the "best of five" mode.
Press release Starbulls Rosenheim