DEG and Iserlohn force game 7

22 Mar 2015 | Markus Nisius

Both Düsseldorf and Iserlohn could get their 3rd win of the series and keep the home game streak in both matchups alive. They have to break it though on tuesday to advance to the semifinals.

Düsseldorfer EG vs Hamburg Freezers 4-3, series 3-3

In a highly emotional game for most of its parts Düsseldorf dominated the first period and Shawn Belle opened the scoring with 8 minutes off the clock since Kurt Davis saw him free in the slot, a feed Belle could not miss. Hamburg got the better start to the second period with a blast from Samuel Klassen, that found its way past Beskorowany, but Düsseldorf found some quick answers. Daniel Fischbuch and Bernhard Ebner could both finish breakaways by putting in the rebounds of Ken Andre Olimb and Anders Martinsen.

In the aftermath of these goals the game went to snooze a bit and was only awakened in the third when Adam Mitchell and Druval Westcott could even the game out of nothing within a minute only. At least for Westcott’s goal Düsseldorf’s goalkeeper Beskorowany must have been still in sleep mode as the shot from far out went straight through his pads without any deflection.

But again it didn’t take Düsseldorf too long to come up with an answer. 25 seconds later Alexander Preibisch converted another rebound to make it 4-3 and force a seventh game in Hamburg on tuesday.

Iserlohn Roosters vs ERC Ingolstadt 6-2, series 3-3

An 18-5 shot advantage in the first period tells you how much Iserlohn wanted to get that game 7 in Ingolstadt. The Roosters fired away and got rewarded after only 77 seconds through a Chad Bassen shot that got deflected by a defender into the own goal. So after the first 20 minutes it looked like an easy cruise for the Roosters, which found a slight bump on the road when Patrick Hager converted Ingolstadt’s first powerplay 32 seconds after the first break.

Though this turned out to be only a bump indeed. 5 minutes later Alexander Foster also converted a powerplay for Iserlohn and with 30 minutes played things got out of hand for Ingolstadt. First goalie Timo Pielmeier turned over a puck on the powerplay, which Chris Connolly put in the net for a shorthanded goal. Then Dylan Wruck added another powerplay marker for the Roosters and Pielmeier gave up. He got substituted by the young Marco Eisenhut, who could not have had a worse start to his game. Right off the face-off Colton Teubert fired a shot towards the new netminder and it got through into the net from the middle line.

With a 4-goal lead Iserlohn entered the last period and kept it. Both teams could each add one more goal, but that did not change the fact that we’ll see a game 7 in Ingolstadt.