The mother of the porcelain box is caution: according to this motto, Peiting's trainer Anton Saal gives the admonisher and warner.
His team has recently won the majority of its games.
Peiting
- In the meantime, EC Peiting has made the acquaintance of all eleven competitors in the Oberliga Süd.
The tendency is clear: Against the four teams positioned in front of him, the fifth in the table conceded a defeat.
The teams behind them all defeated the Pfaffenwinkler.
Such number games are of little interest to Peiting's coach Anton Saal: "We don't want to focus on the table, we look from game to game."
Ice hockey: Coach Anton Saal has taken a close look at the next two opponents
The EV Füssen in particular, where the Peitinger will be performing this Friday (7.30 p.m.), would prefer to hide his current position.
After all, the Allgäu ranks second to last in the table cellar.
"The EVF is under pressure and will throw everything into the balance against us," says Saal before the duel with the old master.
He observed the Allgäu in their 4-6 home defeat last Tuesday in the catch-up game against Höchstadt.
So the Füssener, who lost the first leg in Peiting 1: 2, have been waiting for a win for seven games.
This dry spell is likely to have a negative impact on the self-confidence of EVF players.
Ice hockey: Saal admonishes his team to accept the fight in Füssen
The Peitinger show a completely different performance curve: They celebrated seven wins in a row before this success story ended with a 3: 6 in Memmingen last Sunday.
In doing so, Saal had to recognize: “We may have become too comfortable.” Now it is imperative to stop this unpleasant trend.
"We can only get something in Füssen if we are wide awake from the start and accept the fight," the Peitinger coach makes clear before this derby.
Ice hockey: Like Peiting, Höchstadt only started the season with moderate success
The same applies to the home game on Sunday against Höchstadter EC (6 p.m.), which Saal in Füssen was able to inspect right away.
“They are on the up,” said Saal about the strong “Alligators”.
Like his own team, the Middle Franconia had a hard time getting into gear at the start of the season.
In the past few weeks things have gone much better, which is also thanks to the late signings Maxim Kryvorutskyy from Selb and Nikita Shatsky from Krefeld.
In the past four games, Höchstadt has won three, against league leaders Weiden there was only a narrow 3-2 defeat.
The best scorers at the HEC are Jari Neugebauer (16 points) and Anton Seewald (15 points).
Ice hockey: Arkiomaa and Bartsch return to Peiting's squad
The first leg in Höchstadt was won by the ECP, who still cannot play with the best line-up, 2-1 after extra time.
“We found it very difficult,” recalls Saal, who can fall back on a better cast than last week.
Eetu-Ville Arkiomaa and Manuel Bartsch are back.
From the regular cast, only Daniel Reichert, who has to undergo an arthroscopy, and Simon Maier, who will only return to the team in the new year, are missing.
"If we want to taste further ahead, there are two opponents that we should beat," Saal said.