Tölzer Löwen: Too weak for the penultimate
Created: 01/04/2023Updated: 01/04/2023, 11:30 p.m
By: Nick Scheder
Temporary goalkeeper: Löwen striker Maximilian Brandl (left) clears the disc from Walker Sommer (right) for the beaten Josef Hölzl in front of the line.
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The Tölzer Löwen missed too many chances, let themselves be countered and lost 3:5 against Landsberg, which was second to bottom in the table.
Coach Ryan Foster is unhappy and there needs to be a reaction on Friday in Höchstadt.
Bad Tölz – A frighteningly weak performance by the Tölzer Löwen against an opponent who was by no means overpowering.
Lacking ideas and emotions, the hosts let themselves be countered again and again by second-bottom HC Landsberg on Wednesday evening, had neither quality nor luck with their shots and lost 3:5.
"The team as a whole didn't perform well - that's all I can say," said Löwen coach Ryan Foster.
Too weak for the penultimate
He had imagined a quick and clear lead against the Oberliga twelfth.
Instead, it became a 1-2 deficit before the first break.
The lions were able to be countered twice, and twice Josef Hölzl, who returned to the box instead of Philip Lehr, did not cut a happy figure.
When Jason Lavallee was 0-1, he left the goal too wide open and let Walker Sommer dupe him with a pawn trick.
Meanwhile, Anton Engel seemed to put things right when he put the disc into Andreas Magg's box to make it 1-1.
Landsberg actually the shooting gallery of the Oberliga
But the lions remained harmless against Landsberg - with 166 goals conceded actually the shooting gallery of the premier league.
Out of 40 attempts, only 3 found the target.
They lost the disc too often, were too imprecise in the passing game, not necessarily in the duels.
And they put on a bad power play: Ironically, with one more Tölzer on the ice, it almost rattled again.
But this time Hölzl was on his toes when Tölz lost the disc in formation and was the winner - albeit a bit fortunate - in solos by Nicolas Strodel.
Sommer nailed the disc to the post on the next counterattack.
increase urgently needed
An increase would have been urgently needed to avoid bankruptcy.
Instead, things almost got worse after the first break.
A wild game with a number of bad passes, inaccuracies, hardly a face-off win for Tölz.
And more counter chances for the guests.
Florian Stauder missed freely in front of Hölzl, but Frantisek Wagner put the target in the power play to make it 1:3.
At this point Justi Späth was on the bench, who was allowed to play alongside Nick Huard and the tirelessly struggling Tyler Ward in the first storm.
If you are late, you have to go to the penalty box
The penalty against Späth is symptomatic: if you are late, you can often only help yourself by breaking the rules.
Erik Gollenbeck, this time again in defense, was only able to prevent a Landsberg finish after one of the numerous Tölz losses by tripping on his legs.
Outnumbered again high activity in front of Hölzl.
No improvement after goal
In the power play, after the lions had returned even more committed from the second break, Gollenbeck reduced it to 2:3.
But there was no sign of improvement, the lions conceded two more goals in a similar pattern.
Tyler Ward earned his goal to make it 3:5 after a nice one-two with Oliver Ott.
Tölz kept trying, but all the other shots were too imprecise.
"Everything was missing," Foster said.
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Harder chunk with Höchstadt on Friday
The Tölzer Löwen have to give an answer on Friday, when they also have to deal with a much tougher chunk: At 8 p.m. they play at Höchstadter EC, a team that is consistently among the top five in the Oberliga , even if they also lost feathers in the 1: 4 against Lindau on Wednesday.
The Alligators don't usually concede many goals and with Jari Neugebauer (16 goals/26 assists), Eetu-Ville Arkiomaa (13/26) and Jakob Fardoe (9/28) they have three players in the top scorer list in the Oberliga.
Toelzer Löwen - HC Landsberg 3: 5 (1: 2, 0: 1, 2: 2)
Goals: 0:1 (4:11) Lavallee (Carciola), 1:1 (6:03) Engel (Kästele/Brandl), 1:2 (10:31) Sommer (Wagner/Erdt), 1:3 (30 :25) Wagner (Lavallee/Hanke, 5-4), 2:3 (40:31) Gollenbeck (Sturm/Huard, 4-5), 2:4 (42:14) Malzer (Reuter), 2:5 ( 50:36) Wagner (Lavallee/Neal), 3:5 (58:09) Ward (Ott/Eichstadt), – penalty minutes: Tölz 4, Landsberg 8, – referee: Weger/Wohlgemuth, – spectators: 1147.