DEL Friday recap

League leaders Kölner Haie earned their 4th consecutive win and the third in a row on the road within five days when they beat Krefeld today in the small Rhine derby. Herberts Vasiljevs and Roland Verwey for Krefeld and Felix Schütz and Charlie Stephens for Köln had scored until the start of the thid period for a 2-2 before Chris Minard won the match for the guests at 43:28 in power play. With 13 seconds left in regulation Haie team captain John Tripp even made it 4-2 Haie with an empty netter.

Adler Mannheim recoverd well from three consecutive losses, including a 1-6 package in the away game against the last in the table Düsseldorfer EG. Today they lay behind in Straubing after an early goal by Karl Stewart but they turned the result around in their favour through two second period strikes by Ken Megowan to take all three points home with them.

Bottom side Iserlohn Roosters were not able to stop their negative streak when they received record champions Eisbären Berlin this evening. Julian Talbot, Florian Busch and Darin Olver scored for a solid 3-0 win by the guests. Berlin goalie Rob Zepp earned a shutout after stopping all the 38 shots on goal he faced. For Iserlohn it was already the 5th consecutive loss and they already have a seven-point deficit towards the pre-playoff spots with just five matches left in the regular season. Berlin on the other side now are third in the table.

In the North derby between Hamburg and Hannover a single goal through Ivan Ciernik in power play at 49:43 gave the Scorpions the win to take all three points with them back to Hannover. Dmitri Pätzold had to work hard for his shutout when he stopped all 41 shots.

ERC Ingolstadt risk falling out of the top-6 playoff spots after losing the Bavarian derby in Munich against the local Red Bulls. Martin Hitnerstocker opened the score for the home side in the first period before Jason Ulmer doubled the lead in a 5 on 3 power play at the start of the third. Alexander Oblinger only could make it 2-1 at 53:15.

Just three days after a huge 6-1 win against vice champions Mannheim, the Düsseldorfer EG was humiliated on home ice by Nürnberg. Although Colin Long tied the match for Düsseldorf around "half time" in a 5 on 3 power play - Connor James had opened the score for Nürnberg after 9 minutes - the match ended terrible for the hosts. Steven Reinprecht (2), Eric Chouinard (2), Ryan Bayda and Yasin Ehliz added six more goals for a 7-1 away win by the Ice Tigers.

The Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg continued their run for a playoff spot with their 5th win in the last 6 matches. Despite trailing guests Augsburger Panther for a long time after a first period goal by Ryan Thang, Wolfsburg came back in the third with strikes by Matt Dzieduszycki, Greg Moore and Tyler Haskins to win it 3-1 in regulation. The Grizzly Adams now are 11th with the same amount of points as Nürnberg (65) but a worse goal difference.

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