MUNICH, GERMANY – “Hey, what a fight, we’re shooting the whole night.” – that was heard through the ice hall at the first game between Munich and Straubing. Then, Eric Meloche went for the 42nd penalty in total, scored, and both teams are now in the book of Records; this time, the match had another story.
Straubing started really well but were unable to make the big chances count. Munich started out with a solid defense and with some pointed attacks which were built on solo-efforts. One such as this had Kramer dancing around 3 straubing players, but he was unable to shoot on the goal at the end of this great play. In the 18th minute, Dylan Gyori took the puck, skated along the side in front of the player benches, wasn’t stopped by the defense and took a shot; the puck hits the back of the net, Gyori took one second to realize this. With this, the first period ended with 1:0.
The second period started equal, but Munich’s goalie Elwing together with defenseman Patrick Vogl stopped two big chances for Straubing. When Andy Canzanello was in the penalty box, Munich were able to score from a worth-seeing combination between Buchwieser, Ready and Schneider; this took the score to 2:0. 2 Minutes later, the Tigers bench cheered about a goal, but the referee Bauer denied for a man in the crease. 12 seconds before the break, Buchwieser did it better, shot the puck to the goal, and the Straubing captain Bakos did a nice own-goal for 3:0.
With this, the game seemed done and Munich were able to stop the last attacks from the guests. But they had not completed their own scoring yet! Schymainski scored the 4th, and when Schneider came from the penalty box and got a pass from Ryan Ready across the centre line he found himself alone in front of Dimitri Pätzold, 5:0. Dustin Whitecotton scored one back to make it 5:1, but then the game ended.
In total, the result was too high for the game, but Munich won because of a fantastic goalie, a solid defense and ice-cold ruthless scoring. After the 0-point-weekend last week, Munich are back on the way to the direct playoff place and is now point equal with Dusseldorf in 5th. Straubing lost the last 5 games in a row and the Tigers need to have worries about the pre-playoff-places.
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