EC Peiting has to go to the pre-play-offs: no time to catch your breath
Created: 03/08/2022, 22:59
By: Katrin Kleinschmidt
Off to the pre-play-offs for (from left) Alexander Winkler, Ty Morris, Nardo Nagtzaam and the rest of Peitinger.
They move into the intermediate round as eighth.
© René Säuberlich
It would have taken a small miracle for EC Peiting to finish sixth.
There wasn't.
Now it's on to the pre-playoffs.
The opponent is already fixed.
Passau
– It was a difficult arithmetic game anyway.
Really everything should have been right on Tuesday evening so that EC Peiting slipped to sixth place in the ice hockey league in the last game of the main round - that coveted place that would have meant direct qualification for the play-offs.
But all chances of that were gone before the game of the ECP in Passau had even started.
The fact that a 3:4 defeat followed after extra time only played a minor role.
"It just rippled away," said ECP trainer Anton Saal aptly describing the game.
"It was about nothing more."
A Corona case: Regensburg cancels the game against Höchstadt
A prerequisite for Peiting being able to slip up to sixth place was a defeat by Höchstädter EC on Tuesday evening.
But because the corona virus had been detected in an HEC player, the opponent, the Eisbären Regensburg, canceled the game on their own.
"The health of the players, supervisors and coaches is our greatest asset," says the fourth-placed team's website.
"Since the DEB, contrary to previous practice, insists that the game be played strictly according to the implementation regulations, the polar bears have decided to accept a possible game rating to their detriment."
This had consequences for the fight for sixth place.
Höchstadt had him safe - for SC Riessersee and Peiting, who had no game, it was clear that they had to go to the pre-play-offs.
Whether as seventh or eighth, at least that should still be decided in the match between Peiting and Passau.
The ECP would have needed a win with a difference of nine goals to overtake the SCR.
Peiting cannot assert himself in Passau
It was already apparent in the first third that this would probably not work out.
Peiting was superior and had a lot of disc possession, but accuracy and probably the typical little bit of luck were missing in front of the goal.
In the second third, the people from Peitingen even fell behind.
Because Nardo Nagtzaam and Andreas Feuerecker were handed two-minute penalties in quick succession, only three field players from Peitingen faced five from Passau.
That didn't go well for long, Niklas Pill scored to make it 1-0.
Florian Stauder equalized again about six minutes later, Marco Habermann put the ECP in the lead.
But that was gone again just before the end of the third: Jonas Franz scored to make it 2-2.
And even in the last part of the game, the people from Peiting did not succeed in asserting themselves decisively.
Although Thomas Heger gave the ECP a 3-2 lead, Santeri Ovaska equalized 13 seconds before the end.
The extra time was short: Marcel Pfänder ended the game after one and a half minutes with his goal to make it 4:3.
The season is over for Passau, but Peiting has no time to take a breather.
The pre-play-off duel with table ninth, EV Lindau, starts on Friday.
"It's going to be a tough fight," fears Saal.
"It was always close against them."
statistics
EHF Passau nV 4
EC Peiting 3
(0:0, 2:2, 1:1, 1:0)
1st period:
no goals.
2nd period:
1: 0 (21:13) Pill (Pfänder/Janzen/5-3), 1: 1 (27:08) Stauder (Nagtzaam/Winkler), 1: 2 (30:10) Habermann (Heger/ Feuerecker), 2:2 (37:46) Franz (mouse/black).
3rd period:
2:3 (47:06) Heger (Morris/Feuecker/5-4), 3:3 (59:47) Ovaska (Schmidbauer/Pfänder).
Overtime:
4:3 (61:32) pledges (Pill/Janzen).
Penalty minutes:
Passau 8 – Peiting 10.
Referees:
Harrer, Lender;
Schiessl, Voit.
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