EHC Red Bull Munich won a tight derby against the Augsburg Panthers 2-1 after extra time on Wednesday. Zach Redmond scored the winning goal. The Munich team played in Augsburg without Maximilian Kastner, Justin Schütz and Andrew MacWilliam – and in the seventh minute they were outnumbered for five minutes because their captain Patrick Hager was given a match penalty for a check against David Stieler’s head. The EHC confidently survived the long manpower game and also had two good counter chances through Frank Mauer (8th, 12th). Real offensive rhythm did not come up with Munich, however, because they had to act a total of eight of the 20 first third minutes outnumbered due to penalties. The Augsburgers used a power play with TJ Trevelyan to make it 1-0 (17th). Michael Clark could have extended the Panthers lead twice after that, but only hit the post each time (20′, 24′).
The Munich team, who had to do without Daubner due to injury in the first third, woke up in the middle of the game. Filip Varejcka equalized after a nice run from Gogulla (31′), Street missed the lead when going it alone (34′). “We finally pulled ourselves together,” said Varejcka after the middle third at Magentasport. The content of the third speech was “that it can’t go on like this. Now it looks better”. Redmond made sure things looked good at the end after 29 seconds of overtime.