Tölzer Löwen back in the fight for sixth place
Created: 12/28/2022, 11:23 p.m
By: Patrick Star
The decisive scene: Tölz striker Anton Engel runs in front of the goal and defeats Peiting's goalkeeper Florian Hechenrieder to make it 3:1.
The lions then played themselves into a frenzy and won 6:1.
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The Tölzer Löwen are back in the fight for the direct play-off qualification: In an impressive manner they defeated their table neighbor EC Peiting 6:1 (1:0, 5:1, 1:0) on Wednesday evening.
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– After this success, the gap to the ECP and sixth place in the table is reduced to four points.
The man of the evening was striker Anton Engel, who made the preliminary decision with a brace to make it 3-1 and 4-1.
"That was a top performance," said coach Ryan Foster.
"The team did exactly what we discussed."
A fight at eye level until the second third
The duels between the Tölzer Löwen and EC Peiting have always been very close affairs: once the Tölzer won by a goal, twice the Peitinger.
Yesterday evening, too, the two teams initially fought a duel at eye level.
The two teams only shot from the middle of the attacking third.
The difference: While Tölz goalkeeper Philip Lehr easily picked off all of Peitingen's attempts, his Peitingen colleague Florian Hechenrieder was surprised by Dillon Eichstadt's long-range shot (9').
Shortly after the start of the second period, Nick Huard made it 2-0 (21st).
Outnumbered, Peiting scored the goal (22nd).
Double packer Anton Engel robs Peiting of morale
What followed then delighted the 150 lion fans who had traveled with them.
Max Brandl played a pass to Anton Engel, who made it 3:1.
The same thing repeated six minutes later.
Brandl coaxed the puck from a Peitinger on the center line.
Then he saw that Engel jumped from the players' bench onto the field, played a centimeter-precise pass.
All alone, Engel ran towards the Peitinger Tor and scored like an old hand to make it 4:1.
"Max saw me beautifully," Engel praised. "Something like that gives you self-confidence." Engel's double strike robbed the hosts of their morale, while the lions played themselves into a frenzy and worked as consistently as rarely in defense.
The strikers also did a flawless defensive job and stopped most of Peitingen's attacks in the neutral zone.
Peaceful evening for goalkeeper Lehr
Goalkeeper Philip Lehr had a relaxed evening and was able to watch calmly as his team created one big chance after the other.
It was only a matter of time before the lions hit more goals.
The time had come in the 35th minute: Nick Huard got through on the right flank, played a nice pass to Tyler Ward and he made it 5:1.
Shortly before the end of the third, a puck found its way into the Peitinger box after a shot by Tyler.
Everything worked that day.
Fist fight in the final third
In the final third, the lions coolly managed their lead and hardly allowed any chances to score.
The biggest excitement was a fistfight between Dillon Eichstadt and Felix Brassard.
The reason for this was a hard check from Brassard to Niklas Hörmann, for which Eichstadt wanted revenge.
But nothing changed in the score.
“One of our best away games”
"I think that was one of our best away games," said Engel.
“Our forechecking was good and so was our backchecking.
Almost everything just fell into place.” Before the game, “there was a lot of discussion,” coach Ryan Forster hinted at before the game.
A similar discussion is not necessary before tomorrow's derby against SC Riessersee, Engel assures: "Everyone is brutally hot.
You don't need any motivation from outside."
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EC Peiting - Tölzer Löwen 1:6
(0:1, 1:5, 0:0).-
Goals:
0:1 (8:52) Eichstadt (Gollenbeck, Engel), 0:2 (20:44) Huard ( Ward, Hörmann), 1:2 (21:42) Habermann (Heger, Feuerecker 5-4), 1:3 (24:21) Engel (Brandl, Eichstadt), 1:4 (30:07) Engel (Brandl, Storm), 1:5 (35:49) Ward (Huard Eichstadt 5-4), 1:6 (38:10) Ward (Huard).
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Penalty minutes:
ECP 14 + 5 Brassard (punch), ECT 10 + Eichstadt (punch).
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Referees:
Thomas Haas, Markus Wohlgemuth.
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