On Wednesday evening, the Straubing Tigers will start the next “three rounds” of the German Ice Hockey League. Lower Bavaria play the league’s showpiece match in Ingolstadt in the evening at 7:30 p.m., await the Ice Tigers of Nuremberg on Friday and travel to the Wild Wings of Schwenningen on Sunday.
After the last five consecutive victories, the Straubing Tigers will travel to Ingolstadt with confidence. But the Ingolstadt Panthers are also in great shape at the moment, they have also won five of their last six games. Both teams currently have 50 points in the DEL, but the Schanzers are currently second in the table with one game less, the Tigers are fourth. With another victory tonight, the Straubingers could fend off competition from Upper Bavaria and continue to settle into the DEL top group this weekend.
Straubing coach Tom Pokel has to rebuild his team’s defense in the evening in Ingolstadt. Trent Bourque and Stephan Daschner are not yet fit and Adrian Klein is with the U20 national team in preparation for the World Cup in Canada. There is also a question mark over the use of team captain and record holder Sandro Schönberger. However, the Tigers’ two regular goalkeepers are fit again: Hunter Miska was able to play again last Sunday, and now Florian Bugl is back in the team.
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