Thursday 29 November 2012

DEL- Eisbaren die Mauler Adlers! ( Polar Bears maul the Eagles!)



EISBAREN BERLIN   5  -  2   Die Adler MANNHEIM 




pic: http://www.eisbaeren.de/
Wednesday evening saw a clash at the top of the German Elite League (DEL), As current league leaders Mannheim Eagles skated in the German Captial to take on 3rd placed Eisbaren Berlin at the O2 Arena,Berlin. And Eisbaren Berlin were hoping to avenge the 6-1 defeat in Mannheim in Week 2.


The 1st period ended  0-0 with both sides just feeling each other out to see what the other had. The 2nd period was a very bad tempered one, which started off well for the Home team as Darin Oliver scored the opener from a Wrap-around ,resulting from great play by the Berlin forward Julian Talbot as he skated from end to the other with some nifty Stick handling,but his effort was kept out by Mannheim Goaltender Dennis Endras. Olver had the awareness to pick the puck up along the boards and try the wraparound, Which Originally was whistled as no goal. But after going upstairs to the replay it was adjudged to have crossed the line and gave Eisbaren a 1-0 lead.



Eisbaren Berlin made it 2-0 when on the Powerplay following a penalty on James Sifers for BOARDING a great pass by T.J Mulock found Matt Foy at the back post to put it in and double the lead. Marcus Kink was given a MATCH Penalty for a leaping hit to the head on Thomas Supis, He left the ice in a bad way, and had all the Bears players wanting to get a few licks in on Kink.



Mannheim got on the scoreboard coming by the way of a Powerplay goal with Danny Briere sitting in the box for TRIPPING. Good vision by Matthais Plachta who picked the puck up behind the Eisbaren nets and found Craig McDonald skating in unchallenged right out in front of the Berlin goals and slotted it home for a 2-1 Berlin lead.



A couple mins later Mannheim were on the Penalty Kill with Denis Reul sitting for 2 mins for BOARDING, and Danny Briere made up for his penalty which gave Mannheim their PP goal, by scoring Berlin a POWERPLAY goal himself, a fast passing well worked Powerplay by the Polar Bears gave Briere plenty of time to control the puck and shoot it in for a 3-1 lead.



pic: http://www.eisbaeren.de/


Goal 4 came quickly in the 3rd period as Matt Foy got his 2nd of the game as he drove to the net an Eagles defensemen tripped him up using his stick as he was going down still had the awareness to get a shot off and score and take the Netminder with him too for a 4-1 Eisbaren Bear lead. Berlin extended their lead further when yet another POWERPLAY GOAL was scored this time by Jamie Arniel with a rocket of a Slapshot that beat Endras all ends up for 5-1 and Vincent Schlenker should have made it 6-1 when his 1 on 1 effort was saved by Endras.



Mannheim Eagles did pull a Consolation goal back from a Schlenker penalty, as they scored on a 4-on-3 POWERPLAY just to show they could score on the PP too. The Powerplay worked well as a pass to the back post for Cristoph Ullmann to put home made the score 5-2 in the last 2 mins.  So the top of the DEL looks abit closer

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          Pld       PTS      
1. Adler Mannheim   23         44
2. Kolner  Haie            21         42
3. Eisbaren Berlin         22         39
4. Hamburg Freezers    22         37

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