Tölzer Löwen fight their way back again and again in Dresden, but then lose 4: 5 because they do not turn off the defensive carvers.
Dresden / Bad Tölz - It is not always the same song that has to be written for the Tölzer Löwen.
But the key is often very similar.
Morale and commitment are right, as well as attacking play and goal completion.
Not all bad conditions for positive results and a carefree season.
If only it weren't for the team's capital defensive blunders, which can only be explained with difficulty and by no means exclusively with the lack of players.
With the Dresdner Eislöwen, the Buam caught up a 2: 4 deficit after an initial lead, only to end up with empty hands.
The 4: 5 means the first weekend without a point win for Tölz.
“Luck is not on our side,” says Löwen coach Kevin Gaudet once again on record.
Again and again defensive carvers
However, the adventure on the Elbe began once more with a personal clubfoot.
Lubor Dibelka, the best scorer and the most dangerous Isarwinkler, injured himself while warming up.
"Our chances were not very high, we played with ten men," complained Gaudet of the as yet undiagnosed upper body injury of the audience favorite.
A failure that cannot be compensated for in the current situation.
But the Tölzer defied the adversity, took the lead through Grant Besse.
But then Simon Karlsson made his grand entrance.
The former Bayreuth hit the mark three times.
Via blueliner, in power play, and then again without assistance.
The reaction of the Tölzer: unimpressed.
Ian Brady made the connection from the right.
Fought back, but then lost
With all due respect for the game of the Tölzer, the defensive Klöpse were unmistakable. Jordan Knackstedt hit the post in the fastbreak. Worse still: In the final third, the lions conceded the shorthander away from the face-off. Good morning early evening. But the boys ironed out this mortgage as well. Thomas Brandl, Goldhelm representative for Dibelka, tipped a template from Oliver Ott to make it 3: 4. And Brady even managed to equalize. The Defender initiated the goal himself, kept his pace and was then in time when Tyler McNeely crossed the goal area.
"We fought our way back great," said Gaudet, praising his team.
A countable result would have been deserved, but it did not want to come about in the end.
Because the focus on the game situation was delayed again at the winning goal of the Saxons.
Timo Walther, positioned behind Marco Wölfl's goal, brought the puck to the goal area, Knackstedt held onto it, 4: 5.
The reaction time of the Tölzer defense was not sufficient.
"Dresden had no shot for five minutes, then suddenly a shot goal," Gaudet quarreled with fate.
And the boys ran after this deficit in the remaining eleven minutes in vain.
Dresdner Eislö. - Tölzer Löwen 5: 4 (1: 1.2: 1.2: 1)
Goals:
0: 1 (2:42) Besse (Schlager, McNeely), 1: 1 (10:21) Karlsson, 2: 1 (24:30) Karlsson (Porsberger, Knackstedt, 5-4), 3: 1 ( 26:19) Karlsson, 3: 2 (9:08) McNeely (Brady, Bohac), 4: 2 (40:06) Walther (Knackstedt, 4-5), 4: 3 (43:06) Brandl (Ott, Vantuch), 4: 4 (44:44) Brady (McNeely, Brandl), 5: 4 (48:13) Knackstedt (Andres, Walther), -
penalty minutes:
Dresden 8, Tölz 6, -
referee:
Bauer / Naust, -
Spectators:
1327
