The break in the league gave Anton Saal the opportunity to draw an interim conclusion.
The trainer recognized a lot of positives, but also deficits in his team.
Peiting
- Even before the season, Peiting's new coach Anton Saal announced that he would take stock after a few games.
After ten games in the Oberliga Süd, the game break prescribed by the Germany Cup offered the ideal opportunity for this.
"With the results and the standings we are fully on target," said Saal.
His team is currently fifth, and the ECP coach absolutely agrees with the athletic performance.
In order to be able to hold our own against the top teams, we have to go a step further.
Anton Saal, coach of the EC Peiting
The table also reflects the course of the season quite well.
The Peitinger lost against the competitors placed in front of them, although the game against Memmingen - the ECP will be the guest of the "Indians" next Sunday - is still pending.
The teams placed behind them all defeated the Peitinger.
"In order to be able to survive against the top teams, we have to go a step further," said Saal against the Eisbären Regensburg, the Starbulls Rosenheim and the Blue Devils Weiden around Peiting's ex-trainer Sebastian Buchwieser.
“We have to get even better, especially when there is an excess,” says Saal, naming one of the construction sites that need to be worked on.
Ice hockey: After a tour, Peiting sometimes becomes careless
Another weakness that the Peitinger team revealed in preparation, negligence at the beginning or end of a third as well as after their own goals, the Peitinger have turned off.
“We worked on that, we usually start very well,” praised Saal.
He was less happy how his protégés appeared after a tour.
“We gave something for free against Lindau and Deggendorf and let the opponent come back into the game.
The top teams don't do that, ”said Saal again and again.
"Only in Regensburg we played 60 minutes in a concentrated manner." As far as constancy is concerned, in Saal's view the Peitinger still have room for improvement.
Ice hockey: Peiting's newcomer Arkiomaa is slowly gaining momentum after teething problems
Saal has little to complain about when it comes to the composition of its ranks. Ty Morris, who is not in the middle as usual, but on the outside lane, harmonizes very well with Nardo Nagtzaam and Thomas Heger. Marco Habermann, Daniel Reichert and Eetu-Ville Arkiomaa form the second attack formation. It is also very dangerous, even if the Finnish signing was only slowly getting started. “He struggles with himself, but you have to be patient with him. He is on the right track, ”said Saal's verdict on the newcomer, who scored twice in the 7-3 win against his ex-club Riessersee. There is special praise for Habermann, "who creates a great atmosphere in the cabin," says Saal, as well as for the youngster Markus Czogallik.He gets a lot of working time in the very committed and successful third row and, according to the hall, has developed very positively.
Ice hockey: With the exception of Simon Maier, all players are on board at EC Peiting
The composition of the rows is not set in stone for the ECP trainer.
"If you want to set new stimuli or if there are failures, you always have to change something," says Saal, which is not the case in view of the series of successes and the short list of injuries - currently only Simon Maier is out due to a muscle injury until the end of the year .
“With the confidence of six wins in a row, we would have liked to continue playing,” says Saal, who didn’t find the break so convenient.
On the other hand, it did well, some players were able to cure minor ailments.
However, the Peitinger have refrained from a completely training-free week.
Last weekend was free, on Monday “things really started again,” said Saal. With the home game against Passau on Friday, the ECP will start playing again.
