Ice pirates heat up the top teams properly

Created: 02/11/2022, 13:00

By: Georg Brennauer

Gap found: Dorfen's Benedikt Dietrich (black jersey) scores to make it 3-0 for Dorfen, Peißenberg's (from left) Martin Andrä, Korbinian Sertl, Christoph Frankenberg and Athanasios Fissekis are at a disadvantage.

© Dominik Findelsberger

At the weekend, ESC Dorfen presented itself on an equal footing with the top teams in the Bayernliga, but it was only enough for one point.

Dorfen – Königsbrunn had to admit defeat to the Ice Pirates with 2:3 goals and Peißenberg 5:6 after extra time.

After the narrow 2:3 defeat at fourth-placed EHC Königsbrunn, Dorfen's coach Franz Steer was still angry.

"There was more to it," Steer stated in the subsequent press conference and referred to a few borderline refereeing decisions, which culminated in the fact that the referees did not whistle in the final minute when Königsbrunner released the face-off.

According to the ESC coach, he has never heard that there should be no icing in a liberation from the opposing bully.

In the final minute, the ice pirates exchanged their goalkeeper Maxi Englbrecht for a sixth field player and literally besieged the third of the EHC and its goalkeeper Markus Kring.

"The face-off would have been a chance that we would have been further in the attacking third," Steer lamented.

So far, five of the six games have been played away from home, and this with a squad that is currently reduced by nine men.

Seen in this way, he was satisfied with the game he had thrown through with two 1b players and a junior (Fabio Lauffer).

In these games, the results were mostly tight, "but we can't buy anything from the result," emphasized the ESC coach.

The failures are due to injuries, corona, flu diseases and also professional hindrances.

"I can't even hear it anymore," he scolded.

In summary, Steer confirmed that his team would have given everything, but he just had to live with the persistently difficult situation.

"What Dorfen has offered with its 13 players is worthy of all honor," said EHC coach Robert Linke in his statement.

However, he did not spare criticism.

In the first third, his team didn't get into the game, missed a lot of chances and played a terrible power play.

"Which speaks for our good minority," Steer interrupted his colleague.

One was promptly countered twice, Linke continued.

"It's a good thing that we got the curve better in the second third, so that in the end we were just able to keep three points."

The Eispiraten delivered a thrilling game against third-placed TSV Peißenberg, in which the Miners just about equalized 50 seconds before the end of regular time after being 2:5 behind and won 6:5 in extra time.

However, the equalizer came about after a foul by a TSV striker, which went unpunished from the ESC point of view, and brought down the Slovenian defender Gasper Susanj in the Dorfen third clearly against the rules.

"The outcome is bitter for us after we should have won the game over time," emphasized Steer.

"Before the game, if someone had told me we would score a point against Peißenberg with the team we still had, with nine team players missing, I wouldn't have believed it." His team has a power play rate of 44 percent and is the best so far Outnumbered team in the league, explained the ESC coach proudly.

"If the referee had kept his previously consistent line, he would have had to call the whistle on Susanj, which then led to the equaliser," criticized Steer.

"But we were still able to walk off the ice with our heads held high."