Tölzer Löwen: Every mistake is punished

Created: 03/26/2022, 00:23

By: Nick Scheder

Jugend forscht: The Tölzer Löwen with (from right) the 18-year-old DNL goalkeeper Joshua Baron and Maximilian Leitner were overwhelmed against the Lausitzer Foxes, lost the game 1:10 and the series 1:4.

© EWALD Scheitterer

Last contingent of the Tölzer Löwen goes down 1:10 against Weißwasser and has to go into the second round

Bad Tölz - If you as a goalkeeper take one goal after the other from the net, the coach usually puts the substitute in the goal at some point.

Joshua Baron had to go the full distance.

Josef Hölzl was on the game report, but could not intervene injured.

And so the 18-year-old, normally the keeper of the Tölz DNL team, got the disc out of the gate ten times.

He received encouragement from his teammates, who, however, had to accept the terrible smack in the play-down game against the Lausitzer Füchse on Friday evening, just as devastated and helpless.

After the 1:10 it is clear: The Tölzer Löwen will play in another best-of-seven round next Friday against relegation.

The opponent has not yet been determined.

It's against the loser of the other play-down series, in which Selb leads 3-2 against Bayreuth.

Every mistake punished

It wasn't just the hapless Baron that made scoring so easy for the visitors.

The 18-year-old tried his best, although he missed a few shots and let some discs slide through the pads.

But he was also often left in the lurch by those in front, who sometimes gave the Saxons the puck without a fight, put the puck on them, or didn't bother them enough on the counterattack.

Not quite the defensive stability coach Kevin Gaudet wanted.

"It was a difficult task for us," says the Tölz coach.

Not only a DNL goalkeeper between the posts of the DEL 2 goal indicates a personal emergency.

The absence of Tyler McNeely and Cam Spiro - two who lead the way, have ideas when things aren't going well - was clearly felt.

"We didn't have seven men with us, lost two goalkeepers in the play-downs, our situation was damn difficult."

Terrible beginning, terrible ending

However, the Tölzer initially knew very well what was at stake.

It was a furious start, the best ten minutes of the play-downs.

Gaudet: "We had more puck possession, more shots on goal." The home side are the better team, but Weißwasser is in the lead.

Baron was not determined enough to counter a counterattack, was unable to prevent Bennet Rosmy's pass to Richard Müller and the Lausitzer easily scored the first of his four goals of the night.

A little later it was 2-0 when Tölz didn't get the disc out of the danger zone.

"White water gets two shots, scores two goals," says Gaudet.

The lions didn't let themselves be disturbed at first and continued to put pressure on.

But when the visitors pulled away again through very easy goals in the second period, heads went down.

Markus Eberhardt's goal to make it 4-1 gave the Tölzers a little self-confidence.

Especially since it was a nice hit when Pascal Aquin cleverly put the ball back on the rushing defender on the left.

But just 90 seconds later, DEL 2 top scorer Peter Quenneville restored the old lead and the game was over.

The final section was a sojourn with three more goals conceded.

Playdowns are no fun

"It was difficult for us to come back, every mistake was punished, I'm not at all happy with the ten goals we conceded, we stopped playing at 1:5 at the latest," Gaudet complains and finds his knowledge confirmed: "Play-downs are no fun .” But his lions have to keep going.

Tölzer Löwen - Lusatian Foxes 1:10 (0:2, 1:5, 0:3)

Goals: 0:1 (8:18) Müller (Rosmy), 0:2 (14:03) Müller (Rosmy), 0:3 (21:01) Müller, 0:4 (26:09) Ritter (Rosmy/ Valentin, 5-4), 1: 4 (27:10) Eberhardt (Aquin/Horschel), 1: 5 (29:40) Quenneville (Garlent), 1: 6 (35:16) Müller (Roßmy), 1: 7 (36:00) Quenneville (Mäkitalo/Reiner), 1:8 (44:47) Mäkitalo (Reiner/Carson), 1:9 (53:32) Breitkreuz (Detig/Ritter), 1:10 (57:03 ) Garlent (Mäkitalo/Hungerecker, 5-4), – penalty minutes: Tölz 8, Weißwasser 8, – referees: Michael Klein/Markus Schütz, – spectators: 1101.