I need a little help, I'm trying to figure out when Kölner Haie will play at home IF they advance from the "pre-playoff" (game 3 tomorrow).
The reason I ask is that I'll be in the area next week, and I would really like to see a game at the amazing LANXESS arena in Cologne. I'm already going to the DEG Metro Stars game on April 1st in Düsseldorf.
I can't find any information about possible dates on DEL.org, it's not shown in the "spielplan". Does anyone know?
They'll play on the same days as the other teams play and would start the series in Berlin if they advanced to the next round. April 1st and 5th are the potential home games but if we'll face Berlin it's very unlikely that there is a game four, so bad news for you.
i would recommend 3rd-tier (oberliga) play-offs in herne and dortmund. both should play april 2nd at home. herne will face bad nauheim or rosenheim, dortmund will face peiting.
i think the level of hockey is solid. especially herne is basically a 2nd-tier team in terms of talent. and the arena in herne is old school.
dortmund vs peiting should be a pretty close series.
it's not DEL and no new arena, but i personally love lower tier hockey with the old arenas and run and gun hockey.
i would recommend 3rd-tier (oberliga) play-offs in herne and dortmund. both should play april 2nd at home. herne will face bad nauheim or rosenheim, dortmund will face peiting.
i think the level of hockey is solid. especially herne is basically a 2nd-tier team in terms of talent. and the arena in herne is old school.
dortmund vs peiting should be a pretty close series.
it's not DEL and no new arena, but i personally love lower tier hockey with the old arenas and run and gun hockey.
It was just as much to see the arena as the hockey game itself, but thanks for the advice, if I'm bored I could go. April 2nd would surely be perfect, since I have the DEG game the day before and Dortmund - Werder Bremen the next. I'll keep these games in mind.
It was just as much to see the arena as the hockey game itself, but thanks for the advice, if I'm bored I could go. April 2nd would surely be perfect, since I have the DEG game the day before and Dortmund - Werder Bremen the next. I'll keep these games in mind.
Too bad - the mircale didn't happen. Congratulations Ingolstadt and another disappointing season for us.
We know that but I'm just saying what Krupp should do..
Watched the Scorps win against Nuremberg in 3 OT yesterday.
In the end they were so slow and the passes so bad I actually didn't have any hope left of anyone scoring a goal anytime soon.
Love Zach's comments on Wolf's OT goal:
"I'm very happy that a 20 year old decided this game because in this league it just doesn't really happen that when the game is on the line in OT a 20-year old German player is still getting regular ice-time.
And i'm quite happy that we'll have him here in Hannover next season.
It's pretty crazy how different the refs are calling the games in the playoffs.
Ondruschka and Wolf got 2+2 for a fight in the 2nd game and yesterday Reiss and Nasreddine the same.
Also the first penalty called yesterday was in the 33rd miunute.
Not that I'm complaining...
Nürnberg's coach decided to play Jimmy Waite instead of Ehelechner yesterday and it proved to be a good decision.
I think the Tigers might actually win this series, the Scorps were quite lucky in the first two games, lucky and Scott was very good unlike yesterday.
Augsburg just eliminated last year's champion and the dominating team of the regular season, Berlin.
Yes, absolutely monumental!
A 6-2 win in Berlin - amazing. Berlin walked away with the league title during the regular season.
I haven't seen that kind of playoff upset since the Islanders knocked off Pittsburgh back in 1993.
Watched the HAN vs. NUR series game and Hannover did what they've done all year - scored early, let the opponent creep back in, then got the job done in the waning moments of the game.
So Hannover vs. Wolfsburg and Ingolstadt vs. Augsburg, although I'm not sure why.
Didn't Wolfsburg finish 2nd and Hannover 6th? Augsburg was 5th and Ingolstadt was in the pre-playoffs. Shouldn't Ingolstadt automatically face Wolfsburg?
My friend was raving to me this morning, he lives in Augsburg. He was choked when they dropped out in football, so he's decided to cheer on the Panthers .
Olver is German and he is a candidate for Krupp. By the way... Olver was 4th in scoring after the season and now is tied leader in PO-Points.
And do you know a guy named Endras? A young german Goalie who gets the chance to be a starter. Our MVP so far.
And we have 4 German D-Men. We have eliminated Berlin, you can't do it with a bad D.
and the Scorpions Top Players are German?? Goc, Goc, Reiss, Dolak, Wolf and Boos. Wow. 6 Germans. Augsburg has 6 Important Germans too.
And a lot of German Fans come to the Augsburg Board and say how much they like what we have done so far and that they will cheer for us during the POs. Even people from Ingolstadt came to us and said this.
And it looks like that we have the 2nd straight sellout (ausverkauft) in Augsburg. 22.500 Visitors in the last 3!! Games. not bad at all (7774 stadium capacity)
) then. I thought it was best of 7 series in the playoff?
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