EHC Klostersee converts its "barn" into a home fortress with welding work and gets the third home win in a row in the ice hockey Oberliga Süd.
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– The EHC Klostersee recently expanded the local Wildbräu Arena in the ice hockey Oberliga Süd into a fortress.
The Grafinger Rot-Weißen have recently left the ice as winners three times in a row and have been credited with eight points out of a possible nine.
Against the Memmingen Indians, the team around captain Raphael Kaefer prevailed 5:4 after extra time after two three-pointers.
"Somehow also balancing justice", commented an EHC supporter after the varied and gripping encounter.
The "frequent driver", i.e. a fan who is often represented in the ice rinks when his team plays away, was alluding to the first of four meetings.
Almost four months ago to the day, the EHClers lost 3:4 to last year's runners-up in the Oberliga.
Luck in the final minute was on the Allgäu side after a balanced game and a late equaliser.
This time it was the last few minutes in particular that took a toll – and Klostersee had strong nerves and staying power.
The equalizer was forced 26 seconds before the end of regulation time.
Outnumbered at full risk after goalkeeper Marinus Schunda took a seat on the bench for an extra striker.
"It was long overdue that we reward ourselves in such a situation," explained coach Dominik Quinlan.
So far, the EHC had always conceded the so-called empty net goal in the abandoned, own housing.
Against the Indians, who are still involved in the fight for direct playoff qualification and desperately need every point for this, they even got the extra point after less than a minute of overtime.
Which made the guests' faces even longer.
He was furious, said Daniel Huhn, after the opponent's "deserved success".
The Memmingen coach described the performance of his Indians as arrogant, unwilling and unwilling to work hard.
"To be honest, I'm at a loss for words.
Klostersee was snappy and wanted the win more.
Our actually strong power play was below ground today.
Talent and experience aside: Honest, hard work decides in the end.” The running missed in the game will be made up for on (actually free) Monday with an additional training session.
For his part, EHC head coach Quinlan highlighted the import attack series ("They are there to make the difference and get the others involved. And that was the case again today") and the penalty killing: "We got some really unnecessary penalties, in Outnumbered overall but extremely well defended.
With absolute will, we compensated for individual mistakes that also led to goals being conceded.”
Morale after the late 3:4 was crazy.
"It's great how the boys fought back and were able to get the matter on our side again."
As an example of the course and outcome of the game, he described a situation shortly before the winning goal in extra time: A Memmingen striker tried to go it alone, but was run out by Lynnden Pastachak and fairly prevented from completing the game.
Klostersee's Canadians initiated the counter-attack and set up the 5:4 for the winning goal scorer Philipp Quinlan, who scored twice against the Indians like Jordy Stallard.
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