After the clear 3:0 in the series against Hamburg, SC Riessersee is early in the quarter-finals of the playoffs.
It's still unclear who it's going to be against next.
Doesn't play a big role in the planning of the white-blue either.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen
– Pana Christakakis slept well the night from Tuesday to Wednesday.
No wonder, since the managing director of SC Riessersee went to bed with the good feeling of having made it through to the quarter-finals.
The white-blue decided the playoff series against the Crocodiles from Hamburg 3:0.
In US sports, this is called a “sweep”.
To translate it into German, the opponent is “swept” out of the competition.
That didn't surprise Christakakis: "Without wanting to sound arrogant: Only the bus was blocked for a possible fourth duel on Friday," he says.
He didn't deal with hotels at all.
It was also the wheels that possibly played a small part in what the spectators saw in the third meeting on Tuesday evening at the Olympic Ice Sports Center.
After only seven minutes it was 3-0 from the hosts' point of view, and in the end a 6-3 win was emblazoned on the scoreboard.
First match puck converted directly.
“The journey for Hamburg was long.
Maybe that's why they lacked a bit of energy," Pat Cortina speculated at the press conference.
What the SCR trainer alluded to: The odyssey that the crocodiles had in their bones.
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They actually wanted to leave south at 7 a.m. on Monday morning.
But at the meeting point, the bus turned out to be too small, and there was only one driver.
All plans had to be thrown overboard.
In the afternoon we finally took the ICE to Munich and from there we took the bus to Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Arrival: shortly before midnight.
The Hamburg managing director drove the equipment to the Werdenfelser Land in a van.
"But that's no excuse," said coach Henry Thom: "The SCR deserved to win the series."
SCR goes into the quarter-finals as underdogs
It is not clear who will be up against in the quarter-finals from Tuesday.
That depends on the outcome of the duels between Halle and Memmingen, Tillburg and Peiting and the Hanover Indians and Höchstadt.
"It's starting to look a lot like the Hanover Scorpions," the managing director ventures a prognosis.
Alternatively, depending on the constellation, Weiden or Rosenheim would also be possible.
In the end, it doesn't matter to him which team is waiting for the white-blue.
"There is no easy or difficult opponent in this sense." It is also clear that the SCR will not go into the next round as a favorite, but as an outsider.
“The crucial point is that we have to look after ourselves.
We have chances.
But for that we have to be at 100 percent.”
Cortina granted his team a day of regeneration on Wednesday.
Preparations for the round of the top eight will begin on Thursday.
"Task one is done, now let's move on to task two," says Christakakis.
This also includes the opponent analysis.
As a precaution, Cortina and his assistant Anton Raubal will take a close look at the Scorpions and dissect them.
So that there is no repetition of the previous year.
At that time, the Lower Saxony beat the Werdenfelser in the round of 16 3-1 in the series.
"No one will shout: 'Hooray, we're playing against Garmisch.'
I don't think a team can sweep us."
SCR Managing Director Pana Christakakis on the possible quarter-final opponents
Either way, Christakakis is certain that none of the opponents is necessarily keen on Los SC Riessersee.
"No one will shout: 'Hooray, we're playing against Garmisch.'
I don't think a team can sweep us.” That's why he's relaxed about the weekend without games.
By Sunday evening at the latest, he will know where the journey is going on Tuesday.
