EHC Red Bull Munich celebrated a derby victory thanks to their dangerous defenders. In their first of nine games in just 17 days, Munich won 4: 2 (1: 1, 0: 0, 3: 1) at the Nürnberg Ice Tigers on Friday evening. The first seasonal duel between Munich and Nuremberg in the DEL ice hockey league, scheduled for October, had to be postponed due to the corona outbreak at the EHC. That is why there was now the first season special between Ice Tigers and the EHC in Nuremberg – and again with a Corona reference. Two days before the game, the three players Marko Friedrich, Andrew Bodnarchuk and Jonas Vogt and assistant coach Manuel Kofler tested positive for the corona virus at the Nuremberg team, and they are all in quarantine. As a result, the Ice Tigers only had four trained defenders against the EHC.
A defender also scored the first goal of the game – Munich’s Konrad Abeltshauser (15th). Just one and a half minutes later, Tyler Sheehy equalized to 1-1. The derby was fast-paced, intense – and also scoring in the final third: Philip Gogulla’s technically fine 2-1 (41st) countered Nuremberg’s Max Kislinger (46th), defender Zach Redmond scored from an acute angle to make the decisive 3-2 (52nd). Yasin Ehliz made the 4: 2 (55th) for the EHC after some good preparatory work by Austin Ortega, where Yannic Seidenberg and Maximilian Kastner returned from their injury breaks. The second derby of the weekend is scheduled for the Munich team on Sunday, and the Augsburg panthers will receive them at 5 p.m. The Swabians lost their first game after the international break 1: 3 in Wolfsburg.