DEL 2006/07

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The 2006/07 DEL season was the 13th season since the German Ice Hockey League was founded . The season started with the first game on September 7, 2006 .

The preliminary round was interrupted in the period from November 6 to November 12, 2006 and February 5 to February 11, 2007 in favor of the national team . The play-off round began March 9. The Adler Mannheim became German champions .

requirements

Attendees

A total of 14 clubs competed against each other. For relegated Kassel Huskies, the Straubing Tigers team - champions of the 2nd Bundesliga 2005/06 - advanced to the top German ice hockey division .

club	Location	Previous year	Play-offs ↑ Play-downs ↓
Augsburg panther	augsburg	12.	-
Polar bears Berlin	Berlin	1.	German master ↑
EV Duisburg "The Foxes"	Duisburg	14th	Winner ↓
DEG Metro Stars	Dusseldorf	3.	Vice champion ↑
Frankfurt Lions	Frankfurt	9.	-
Hamburg Freezers	Hamburg	6th	Quarterfinals ↑
Hanover Scorpions	Hanover	7th	Semifinals ↑
ERC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	2.	Quarterfinals ↑
Iserlohn Roosters	Iserlohn	11.	-
Cologne Sharks	Cologne	5.	Semifinals ↑
Krefeld penguins	Krefeld	8th.	Quarterfinals ↑
Adler Mannheim	Mannheim	10.	-
Sinupret Ice Tigers	Nuremberg	4th	Quarterfinals ↑
Straubing Tigers	Straubing	Climbers	-

Mode and rules

From this season on there was no more athletic relegation in the DEL, which is why the play-off mode also changed. A potential newcomer, who can still exist with fewer than 16 teams in the DEL from the 2nd Bundesliga , had to meet other conditions in addition to a 9,000 point target for the stadium in order to be accepted into the DEL. The current DEL teams have grandfathering as long as they belong to the DEL. The league management wants to create better financial security for their clubs.

Furthermore, from this season onwards, if there was a tie during the main round and in the play-offs, a five-minute extra time with 4 field players each was played in sudden death mode. Only then did a shootout follow .

Sporty

The ISS Dome, the new home ground of the DEG Metro Stars

For the 2006/07 season, the DEG Metro Stars moved from the traditional ice rink on Brehmstrasse to the newly built ISS Dome , which now offers space for 13,400 spectators. This makes Düsseldorf the eighth DEL location after Hamburg, Cologne, Hanover, Krefeld, Nuremberg, Ingolstadt and Mannheim, which has received a multifunctional arena in recent years. DEG had previously won eight German championships on Brehmstrasse, most recently in 1996 .

As in the previous year, the bad position of the German national team in the IIHF world rankings meant that no German teams were qualified for the IIHF European Champions Cup . However, the German champion Eisbären Berlin accepted HC Davos' invitation to the renowned Spengler Cup , which they finished in December with just one victory, finishing fifth and last.

economy

Compared to the previous year, the clubs' budgets remained almost stable. The total budget of the clubs was € 70 million. If you disregard the Straubing Tigers, who had doubled their budget as a newcomer, the Düsseldorfers recorded the greatest increase that they could count on with a significant increase in the number of spectators in the new ISS dome. Once again, the DEL had a comparatively high amount of TV money from the pay TV broadcaster Premiere. As the main sponsor of the league, the Yellow Pages continued to advertise the boards in every stadium as well as on the official websites of the clubs.

Budget overview of the DEL clubs 2006/07
Club	Budget 2006/07 in € million	Change compared to the previous year	Average audience
			Main round home	Play-offs home
Augsburg panther	3.2	/	3.111	/
Polar bears Berlin	6.0	/	4,501	4,500
DEG Metro Stars	7.0	+ 0.7	7,727	7,700
EV Duisburg	3.0	- 0.5	2,447	/
Frankfurt Lions	4.7	+ 0.1	6,060	6,675
Hamburg Freezers	7.1	/	10,293	9,608
Hanover Scorpions	4.3	+ 0.5	6,186	6,899
ERC Ingolstadt	5.7	+ 0.2	4,079	4,466
Iserlohn Roosters	3.4	+ 0.2	3,353	/
Cologne Sharks	6.5	/	12,711	15,157
Krefeld penguins	3.7	- 0.4	3,925	4,694
Adler Mannheim	8.0	/	12,688	13,325
Sinupret Ice Tigers	4.4	- 0.2	4,912	6,949
Straubing Tigers	3.0	+ 1.5	4,461	/
League cut	5.0	(0.15)	6,172	(7,997)

The Adler Mannheim remained budget croesus of the league, the Hamburg Freezers maintained their second place just ahead of the DEG Metro Stars. EV Duisburg, which had to reduce its previous year's budget by half a million euros, remained at the bottom of this ranking. The surprisingly strong 2005/06 season of the Hannover Scorpions brought the team a budget increase of 500,000 euros.

Preliminary round

Straubing Tigers versus Kölner Haie , December 2006

Closing table

After 52 match days, the official DEL table looked like this:

	Club	Sp	S.	N	Gates	Points
1.	Adler Mannheim	52	35	17th	184: 147	107
2.	DEG Metro Stars	52	33	19th	163: 127	98
3.	Sinupret Ice Tigers	52	34	18th	181: 136	95
4th	ERC Ingolstadt	52	30th	22nd	180: 146	94
5.	Cologne Sharks	52	28	24	177: 135	91
6th	Hanover Scorpions	52	26th	26th	162: 157	84
7th	Hamburg Freezers	52	30th	22nd	169: 153	83
8th.	Frankfurt Lions	52	28	24	171: 171	83
9.	Polar bears Berlin (M)	52	24	28	171: 157	77
10.	Krefeld penguins	52	24	28	170: 173	71
11.	Iserlohn Roosters	52	24	28	148: 163	70
12.	Straubing Tigers (N)	52	20th	32	135: 189	56
13.	Augsburg panther	52	17th	35	148: 205	48
14th	EV Duisburg "The Foxes"	52	9	41	118: 218	35

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = wins, N = defeats, (M) = defending champion, (N) = newcomer
Explanations:     = direct qualification for the play-offs,     = play-off qualifying round,     = season ended

As in the previous season , the teams also met this season, four times per season with each other. The six best-placed teams automatically moved into the play-offs, the four teams in places seven to ten fought in the play-off mode Best of Three in the qualification after the main round for the last two places in the play-offs and for the clubs from position eleven the season ended after the main round.

Leaderboards

Top scorer
player	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
David McLlwain (Cologne Sharks)	52	21st	41	62
François Fortier (Hamburg Freezers)	52	28	31	59
Brad Smyth (Hamburg Freezers)	52	23	36	59
François Méthot (Adler Mannheim)	52	19th	38	57
Jame Pollock (Sinupret Ice Tigers)	46	22nd	32	54
Top scorer
Herberts Vasiļjevs (Krefeld Penguins)	51	30th	24	54
François Fortier (Hamburg Freezers)	52	28	31	59
René Corbet (Adler Mannheim)	51	25th	17th	42
Top template provider
David McLlwain (Cologne Sharks)	52	21st	41	62
Mark Beaufait (Eisbären Berlin)	51	14th	40	54
François Méthot (Adler Mannheim)	52	19th	38	57

Top defender
player	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
Jame Pollock (Sinupret Ice Tigers)	46	22nd	32	54
Stéphane Julien (Cologne Sharks)	49	16	34	50
Deron Quint (Polar Bears Berlin)	52	18th	28	46
Jakub Ficenec (ERC Ingolstadt)	48	11	34	45
Sascha Goc (Hanover Scorpions)	38	20th	24	44

Top goalkeeper
player	Calls	SaT	GT	GT cut	SGH	Catch quota	SO
Adam Hauser (Cologne Sharks)	52	1250	95	2.35	1155	92.40	4th
Oliver Jonas (Cologne Sharks)	50	392	31	2.57	361	92.09	0
Jean-François Labbé (Sinupret Ice Tigers)	48	1294	103	2.43	1191	92.04	5
Jean-Marc Pelletier (Adler Mannheim)	21st	578	49	2.60	529	91.52	0
Robert Müller (Adler Mannheim)	23	541	46	2.61	495	91.50	1
SaT = shots on goal; GT = goals conceded; SGH = number of shots held; SO = shutout

Best plus / minus statistics
player	Games	+	-	total
Jakub Ficenec (ERC Ingolstadt)	48	55	28	26th
Herberts Vasiļjevs (Krefeld Penguins)	51	36	23	23
Jan Alinč (Krefeld Penguins)	36	40	17th	23

Most power play goals
Jame Pollock (Sinupret Ice Tigers)	46 games,	22 goals,	16 PP gates
Most shorthanders
Herberts Vasiļjevs (Krefeld Penguins)	51 games,	30 goals,	4 SH

	Power play efficiency		Outnumbered Efficiency
1.	Polar bears Berlin	17.32%	Cologne Sharks	89.33%
2.	Sinupret Ice Tigers	17.11%	DEG Metro Stars	88.41%
3.	Frankfurt Lions	16.90%	Hanover Scorpions	88.00%
4th	Hamburg Freezers	16.71%	Adler Mannheim	87.37%
5.	Adler Mannheim	16.67%	ERC Ingolstadt	86.99%
14th	Iserlohn Roosters	9.98%	Augsburg panther	78.61%
The percentages indicate from what percentage of the outnumbered situations a goal was scored, or in what percentage of the outnumbered situations no hit was received.

WestLB Fair Play Trophy

The WestLB Fair Play Trophy is the fairest team in a DEL season every year. For this purpose, the average penalty minutes of the clubs are converted to points, each game ban that is issued by the league company against a player is assessed with an additional point and added to the average penalty minutes. The fewest points with an average of 17.83 penalty minutes per game and a game suspension (= 18.83 total points) went to the Krefeld Penguins , who were the first to win the WestLB Fair Play Trophy. The Hannover Scorpions performed worst with a total of 39.1 points.

	team	Games	Ø penalties	Lock	Points
1.	Krefeld penguins	54	17.83	1	18.83
2.	Straubing Tigers	52	20.29	2	22.29
3.	Sinupret Ice Tigers	65	22.35	0	22.35
4th	Foxes Duisburg	52	23.38	0	23.38
5.	ERC Ingolstadt	58	23.57	0	23.57
6th	Augsburg panther	52	19.63	4th	23.63
7th	Hamburg Freezers	59	22.68	2	24.68
8th.	Adler Mannheim	63	21.78	3	24.78
9.	Iserlohn Roosters	52	23.79	1	24.79
10.	DEG Metro Stars	61	21.93	5	26.93
11.	Polar bears Berlin	55	21.80	7th	28.8
12.	Frankfurt Lions	60	28.80	2	30.8
13.	Cologne Sharks	61	26.33	6th	32.33
14th	Hanover Scorpions	58	24.10	15th	39.1

Play-offs

Play-off tree

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	1.	Adler Mannheim	4th
	8th.	Frankfurt Lions	1
						1.	Adler Mannheim	3
						5.	Cologne Sharks	0
	4th	ERC Ingolstadt	2
	5.	Cologne Sharks	4th
											1.	Adler Mannheim	3
											3.	Sinupret Ice Tigers	0
	2.	DEG Metro Stars	4th
	7th	Hamburg Freezers	1
						2.	DEG Metro Stars	1
						3.	Sinupret Ice Tigers	3
	3.	Sinupret Ice Tigers	4th
	6th	Hanover Scorpions	2

qualification

The first two qualifying games (" best-of-three " mode ) took place on March 9 and 11, 2007. A third game was necessary for the encounter between Frankfurt and Berlin and was played on March 13th.

			series	1	2	3	MR
Hamburg Freezers	-	Krefeld penguins	2-0	5: 3	5: 3	-	[0: 4]
Frankfurt Lions	-	Polar bears Berlin	2: 1	3: 4	2: 1	6-0	[2: 2]

Quarter finals

The quarter-final series (" Best of Seven " mode ) was played from March 16, 2007.

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	MR
Adler Mannheim	-	Frankfurt Lions	4: 1	4: 3 a.d.	6: 2	2: 1	2: 4	3: 2	-	-	[3: 1]
DEG Metro Stars	-	Hamburg Freezers	4: 1	3: 2	4-0	5: 4 a.d.	1: 3	6: 1	-	-	[1: 3]
Sinupret Ice Tigers	-	Hanover Scorpions	4: 2	3: 5	2: 3	3-0	3: 2	3: 2 a.d.	3: 2 a.d.	-	[2: 2]
ERC Ingolstadt	-	Cologne Sharks	2: 4	1: 5	1: 4	6: 2	0: 1 a.d.	6: 4	1: 5	-	[2: 2]

HR = main round

Semifinals

The pairings were based on the placements of the quarter-final winners in the main round. The best placed against the worst placed, and the second best placed against the third best placed. The better placed team got the first home right.

As in the final, the winner was played in the " Best-of-Five " mode .

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	MR
Adler Mannheim	-	Cologne Sharks	3-0	7: 2	6: 4	2-0	-	-	[1: 3]
DEG Metro Stars	-	Sinupret Ice Tigers	1: 3	2: 3 n.p.	3: 4	5: 4 a.d.	0: 1	-	[4: 0]

final

The winners of the two semi-finals competed against each other, with the team that was better placed in the main round getting the first home right.

After their 2-0 win in the third semi-final against Cologne, Adler Mannheim were already the first to take part in the final. It was also clear that the team from Mannheim got the first home right, as they finished the regular season as first in the table.

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	MR
Adler Mannheim	-	Sinupret Ice Tigers	3-0	3: 2 a.d.	6: 2	5: 2	-	-	[3: 1]

Adler Manheim won the play-offs. They became German champions in 2007 and celebrated their fifth title win in the DEL.

Squad of the German champions

German champion Adler Mannheim

Goalkeepers: Danny from the Birken , Ilpo Kauhanen , Robert Müller , Jean-Marc Pelletier Defenders: Martin Ančička , François Bouchard , Sven Butenschön , Christopher Fischer , Benedikt Kohl , Felix Petermann , Stephan Retzer , Blake Sloan , Pascal Trépanier Attackers: Ronny Arendt , Sachar Blank , Fabio Carciola , René Corbet , Rico Fata , Colin Forbes , Rick Girard , Jason Jaspers , Marcus Kink , Eduard Lewandowski , Tomáš Martinec , Frank Mauer , François Méthot , Nathan Robinson , André Schietzold , Jeff Shantz , Christoph Ullmann Head Coach: Greg Poss

TV rights

The TV rights of the DEL were also in the 2006/07 season when Pay TV transmitter premiere , the weekly least two batches transferred (usually on Thursdays at 19.30 and Sundays at 14.30). In the play-offs at least one game was broadcast in each round, and all games from the semi-finals. ARD , ZDF , the third programs, ProSiebenSat.1 Media , n-tv and some regional broadcasters had post-exploitation rights. In addition, game summaries have been broadcast on the “DEL-TV” platform on the Internet since the 2005/06 season , with the image material being composed of stadium TV and premiere.

DEL All-Star Game 2007

The SAP arena, venue of the DEL All-Star Games 2007

The DEL All-Star Game 2007 was played on February 3, 2007 in the SAP Arena in Mannheim . It was the first All-Star Game in which a team of DEL European ice hockey stars competed against a DEL North America All-Star selection. The all-stars from North America won the game 12:10.
At the competitions, Jakub Ficenec from Team Europe was able to show the hardest shot with 159 km / h. The second competition was fought against each other by Adam Hauser for the North American team and Dimitrij Kotschnew for the European team. In the one-on-one shootout contest , three players each shot a total of 15 times at the opposing goal. Hauser had to reach behind him twice, Kotschnew did not concede a goal and thus prevailed. In the third Puck Control Relay competition , where targeting was important, the European relay team with Alexander Barta , Robert Hock , Tore Vikingstad , Ivan Čiernik and Petr Fical were ahead. The only event with a North American winner was the Speed ​​Competition . Andy Roach ran the fastest time per lap.

Records

On October 15, 2006, the 13th matchday, the match between Straubing Tigers and Eisbären Berlin 3: 7 (2: 5, 0: 1, 1: 1) in the first third set the DEL records for the three (26 seconds; previously 28 seconds) or four fastest goals by two teams (59 seconds; previously 75 seconds). The goals were scored by Norman Martens (0: 2, 13:41) and Patrick Jarrett (0: 3, 13:57) for Berlin, as well as by Vitali Janke (1: 3, 14:07) and Per Eklund (2: 3 , 14:40) for Straubing.

On December 15, 2006, Herberts Vasiļjevs got 8 scorer points (4 goals and 4 assists) in the 8-2 home win against the Frankfurt Lions. A week later, on December 23, 2006, the DEG Metro Stars scored three goals in the encounter between the Krefeld Penguins within 2 minutes and one second (Kreutzer 1: 0, 0:34; Panzer 2: 0, 1:22 and Johnson 3-0, 2:35). The game ended 5-2.

Web links

• All results and tables of the DEL 2006/07 at hockey-db.de

swell

1. ↑ Details on the conditions of participation [1]
2. ^ Rheinische Post from September 7, 2006 [2]
3. ↑ Statistics of the DEL archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.