2nd ice hockey Bundesliga 2003/04

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Master:	EHC Wolfsburg
Newcomers:	EHC Wolfsburg
Relegated:	EC Bad Nauheim (game operations stopped), SC Riessersee (game operations stopped) Heilbronner Falken
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The 2003/04 season of the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga was the sixth season of the new single-track, second-highest German division and, in contrast to the previous season, began with 14 participants.

Before the season, the Tölzer Löwen and the Schwenninger ERC, who had been excluded from the DEL due to insolvency after the 2002/03 season, were able to terminate the insolvency proceedings in time for the license, as was the SC Riessersee team , which was only able to meet the requirements very late.

requirements

Bad Nauheim Bad Tölz Bietigheim-Bissingen Crimmitschau Duisburg Heilbronn Kaufbeuren Landshut regensburg Schwenningen Straubing Pastures Wolfsburg

Locations of the clubs of the 2nd ice hockey Bundesliga in the 2003/04 season

Attendees

Of the participants in the previous year's championship , the EHC Freiburg had advanced to the DEL ; the Lausitzer Füchse and the REV Bremerhaven were relegated to the upper league . New in the league were the Schwenninger Wild Wings , who lost the DEL license, and the 1st EV Blue Devils Weiden , champions and promoted players from the league .

mode

Compared to the previous season, the mode has been changed again. First, a preliminary round was completed as a double round, during which the team of SC Riessersee was excluded from play on December 5, 2003 because of outstanding payments as a result of two consecutive home game bans. In addition, at the beginning of December 2003 an application for insolvency was filed for the GmbH. After the preliminary round, the participants in places 1 to 8 took part in the championship play-offs, after which the champions EHC Wolfsburg submitted an ultimately successful application for admission to the German Ice Hockey League . The participants in 9th to 13th place played only one relegated athlete in a relegation round, with a bankruptcy petition being filed against the Heilbronner Falken GmbH in April 2004 during the round .

Preliminary round

Closing table

	club	Sp	S.	OTS SOS	OTN SUN	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
01.	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	48	30th	1	6th	11	159: 099	+60	98
02.	EC Bad Nauheim	48	24	5	7th	12	148: 130	+18	89
03.	Straubing Tigers	48	22nd	7th	7th	12	170: 121	+49	87
04th	Landshut cannibals	48	23	5	5	15th	163: 140	+23	84
05.	EV Duisburg	48	22nd	7th	2	17th	151: 143	+ 08	82
06th	Bietigheim Steelers	48	25th	2	2	19th	197: 152	+45	81
07th	Polar bears Regensburg	48	22nd	6th	3	17th	153: 125	+28	81
08th.	Schwenninger Wild Wings (A)	48	22nd	6th	1	19th	200: 193	+ 07	79
9.	ETC Crimmitschau	48	18th	3	3	24	145: 172	-27	63
010.	Heilbronn falcon	48	18th	3	3	24	153: 160	- 07th	63
11.	ESV Kaufbeuren	48	13	5	4th	26th	157: 214	-57	53
12.	Tölzer lions	48	12	1	6th	29	120: 185	-65	44
13.	Blue Devils Willows (N)	48	7th	3	5	33	140: 222	-82	32
14th	SC Riessersee	Excluded from gaming

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime, SOS = victories after penalty shoot-out, OTN = defeats after overtime, SON = defeats after penalty shoot-out, N = defeats, (N) = newcomer, (A) = relegated
explanations :     = Play-offs,     = relegation round.

Bietigheim was ahead of Regensburg because of the direct comparison won (6: 6 points, 14:10 goals). Crimmitschau was ahead of Heilbronn because of the direct comparison won (9: 3 points).

Leaderboards

category	Surname	team	number
Top scorer	Craig Teeple	Bietigheim Steelers	85 scorer points
Top scorer	Mark Woolf	Polar bears Regensburg	36 goals
Top template provider	Andrei Kawaljou	Bietigheim Steelers	57 assists
Top defender	Calvin Elfring	Bietigheim Steelers	62 scorer points
Top goalkeeper	Marek Mastič	EHC Wolfsburg	Average goal conceded of 1.88
Shutout statistics	Marek Mastic	EHC Wolfsburg	7th
Penalty box king	Scott Matzka	ETC Crimmitschau	180

facts and figures

• Goals scored: 2056 (average per game 6.59)
• Goals scored home teams: 1194 (average per game 3.83)
• Goals scored by visiting teams: 862 (average per game 2.76)
• Extensions (without penalty) : 10
• Shootout: 44
• Away wins: 102
• Home wins: 210
• Biggest away win: ESV Kaufbeuren - Blue Devils Weiden 2: 9 on matchday 21 (November 28, 2003)
• Biggest home win: SC Bietigheim-Bissingen - ESV Kaufbeuren 14: 1 on matchday 44 (February 15, 2004)

Play-offs

All play-off rounds were played in the " Best of Five " mode.

Quarter finals

			series	1	2	3	4th	5
EHC Wolfsburg	-	Schwenninger Wild Wings	3-0	7: 4	8: 4	5: 1	-	-
EC Bad Nauheim	-	Polar bears Regensburg	3: 2	1: 2	3: 1	2: 3 n.p.	3-0	4: 3
Landshut cannibals	-	EV Duisburg	3: 1	4: 3	1: 8	4-0	2: 1 n.p.	-
Straubing Tigers	-	Bietigheim Steelers	0: 3	4: 5 n.p.	4: 8	2: 4	-	-

Semifinals

			series	1	2	3	4th	5
EC Bad Nauheim	-	Landshut cannibals	2: 3	0: 3	2: 1 n.p.	5: 2	1: 3	2: 3 n.p.
EHC Wolfsburg	-	Bietigheim Steelers	3: 2	3: 4 n.p.	4: 2	0: 3	2: 1	3: 2 a.d.

final

			series	1	2	3	4th	5
EHC Wolfsburg	-	Landshut cannibals	3: 1	6: 5	2: 3	3: 1	6: 3	-

The EHC Wolfsburg rose after a successful application for the season 2004/05 in the German Ice Hockey League and stored his first team in the EHC Wolfsburg Grizzly Adams Spielbetriebs GmbH from.

Relegation round

	club	Sp	S.	OTS SOS	OTN SUN	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Blue Devils Willows (N)	8th	6th	0	0	2	32:22	+10	18th
2.	ETC Crimmitschau	8th	4th	0	2	2	30:26	+ 04	14th
3.	ESV Kaufbeuren	8th	4th	1	0	3	32:19	+13	14th
4th	Tölzer lions	8th	4th	1	0	3	23:28	- 05th	14th
5.	Heilbronn falcon	8th	0	0	0	8th	16:38	-22	00

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime, SOS = victories after penalty shoot-out, OTN = defeats after overtime, SON = defeats after penalty shoot-out, N = defeats, (N) = novice
Explanations:     = relegation,     = relegation .

A direct comparison between Kaufbeuren, Crimmitschau and Bad Tölz decided on the final placement. Crimmitschau (17:13 goals, 8 points) ahead of Kaufbeuren (13: 9, 5) and Bad Tölz (8:16, 5).

The Heilbronner Falken were relegated to the ice hockey league .

Web links

• All results and tables of the 2. Ice Hockey Bundesliga 2003/04 at hockey-db.de