DEL 2009/10

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Master:	Hanover Scorpions
Relegated:	Kassel Huskies , Frankfurt Lions (both license withdrawals)
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The 2009/10 DEL season was the 16th season since the German Ice Hockey League was founded . After the previous season, the bottom of the table Füchse Duisburg withdrew from the league for financial reasons. For the champions of the 2nd Bundesliga , the Bietigheim Steelers , there was the possibility of promotion. However, the application to participate in the licensing procedure was withdrawn early.

The season began with the clash between the Adler Mannheim and the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers on September 3, 2009; the preliminary round ended on March 21, 2010 after 60 match days. The subsequent play-offs began on March 24th and ended on April 25th with the Hannover Scorpions winning the first title .

requirements

Attendees

augsburg Berlin Dusseldorf Frankfurt Hamburg Hanover Ingolstadt Iserlohn kassel Cologne Krefeld Mannheim Nuremberg Straubing Wolfsburg

Participant of the DEL 2009/10

The following 15 clubs took part in the German Ice Hockey League 2009/10 (alphabetical order with previous year's ranking) :

club	Location	Previous year	Play-offs
Augsburg panther	augsburg	10.	Play-off qualification
Polar bears Berlin	Berlin	1.	German champions
DEG Metro Stars	Dusseldorf	3.	Runner-up
Frankfurt Lions	Frankfurt am Main	9.	Play-off qualification
Hamburg Freezers	Hamburg	8th.	Quarter finals
Hanover Scorpions	Hanover	2.	Semifinals
ERC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	12.	-
Iserlohn Roosters	Iserlohn	11.	-
Kassel Huskies	kassel	14th	-
Cologne Sharks	Cologne	15th	-
Krefeld penguins	Krefeld	6th	Quarter finals
Adler Mannheim	Mannheim	4th	Semifinals
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	Nuremberg	5.	Quarter finals
Straubing Tigers	Straubing	13.	-
Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	7th	Quarter finals

mode

At the 74th shareholders' meeting on July 2, 2009, all 15 clubs were granted the license for the 2009/10 season, which resulted in a mode change. The group division from the previous year is no longer applicable, there are 60 game days, with each club having four free games. Due to the tight schedule as a result of the Olympic Games and the World Cup in Germany, they are returning to playing the first play-off round in best-of-three mode. The following rounds will continue to be held as the best-of-five.

Renaming of the Sinupret Ice Tigers

After it became known in the previous season that the Sinupret Ice Tigers GmbH was insolvent, the Nuremberg District Court appointed a provisional insolvency administrator for the GmbH on November 25, 2008 , who prepared the insolvency report by December 30, 2008. On March 26th, 2009 the previous shirt sponsor Bionorica withdrew, so that on April 3rd, 2009 the group of investors around the jewelery manufacturer Thomas Sabo took over the Ice Tigers GmbH, which averted the bankruptcy and secured the game operations in the 2009/10 season. As a result of this license takeover, the Nuremberg company changed its name to Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers .

economy

Budget overview of the DEL clubs 2009/10
Club	Budget 2009/10 in € million	Change compared to the previous year
Adler Mannheim	8.0	± 0
Polar bears Berlin	7.5	−0.2
DEG Metro Stars	7.1	−0.1
Hamburg Freezers	7.0	−0.1
Cologne Sharks	6.0	−0.5
ERC Ingolstadt	5.7	−0.5
Frankfurt Lions	5.0	−0.2
EHC Wolfsburg	4.5	± 0
Hanover Scorpions	4.4	−3.1
Iserlohn Roosters	4.1	−0.4
Krefeld penguins	4.1	± 0
Nuremberg Ice Tigers	3.5	−1.3
Straubing Tigers	3.3	−0.4
Augsburg panther	3.1	± 0
Kassel Huskies	2.6	−0.5
League cut	5.06	−0.21

Preliminary round

September 2009

The season opened on September 3rd with the Adler Mannheim game against the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers . The first table leaders were the Hamburg Freezers , who defeated the Straubing Tigers 6-0. As a result, the Hanseatic League won only the following game in the penalty shootout - the team lost the remaining game days and closed the eighth game day, and thus September, with the last place in the table. Defending champion Eisbären Berlin lost 8: 3 to the Kassel Huskies on matchday one , but won all subsequent games of the month. The Augsburg Panthers also started successfully, spending the whole of September in the top third of the table. After their opening success, the favorite Mannheim only won again on the seventh matchday and, along with the Krefeld Penguins, was behind the previous year's semi-finalist Hannover Scorpions .

October 2009

Dimitri Pätzold before the game against Adler Mannheim on October 25, 2009

The most successful team of October were the Adler Mannheim, who were able to make eight out of nine games victorious and thus took the lead after the 17th matchday. The Hamburg Freezers, who only won two of eight games, remained at the bottom. On October 2nd the first meeting of last year's finalists, the DEG Metro Stars and the Eisbären Berlin took place. The Rhinelander prevailed 6-2 and broke the seven-game winning streak of Berlin. The Frankfurt Lions also won against the Eisbären two weeks later and became the first team to win in the [[O ₂  World]] in 17 games.

With the engagement of the former NHL professional Ben Clymer , ERC Ingolstadt reacted to its injury misery and finally became the second most successful team behind the Mannheim team in October, which was reflected in a jump from 14th to sixth place. On October 15, the Krefeld Penguins signed the Finnish defender Janne Grönvall .

November 2009

Warm-up before the Eisbären Berlin game against DEG Metro Stars on November 20th

November was all about the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers. The team from Nuremberg only lost one of the eight games, achieved 20 out of 24 points and moved up from 14th to 8th place. The Frankfurt Lions got 19 out of 24 points and pushed the Eisbären Berlin from the top of the table. With 18 out of 24 points, the Hamburg Freezers left the table cellar and were on a pre-play-off spot at the end of the month. Meanwhile, the downward slide of the Krefeld Penguins and the Kölner Haie continued, both of which were only able to score six points in November, which meant the “red lantern” for Krefeld. The Augsburg Panthers and the Kassel Huskies also only achieved six points.

The league paused between November 6th and 8th due to the Germany Cup held at that time .

On the 21st matchday there was the second leg of last year's finalists, the Eisbären Berlin received the DEG Metro Stars in the O₂ World. The Düsseldorf team also won this game 7-3.

On November 24th, the Hannover Scorpions announced the signing of goalkeeper Travis Scott , who had already played for Cologne in 2007 and had won the Austrian championship with Klagenfurt's AC last year .

December 2009

In December, Master Berlin was able to gain ground again, in ten games the polar bears captured 27 points. The Hannover Scorpions needed one more game for the same number of points, but climbed from 14th to 4th place. December, however, was not a good month for Frankfurt, Kassel and Hamburg, all of which only managed to collect six points. While the two Hessian clubs needed nine games, Hamburg needed eleven games.

At the beginning of the month, Igor Pawlow lost his coaching position at the Kölner Haien, his successor was Bill Stewart , and the Krefeld Penguins also changed coaches in the middle of the month. Martin Jiranek had to vacate his post for Rick Adduono . Both teams showed a strong upward trend after the coaching change.

On December 13th, the game Straubing against Frankfurt had to be stopped when the score was 2: 1 in the second third break, because the ice resurfacing machine on the ice surface had a defect and the waste heat caused a hole in the ice. On December 18, a screw broke on the Messer hydraulic system of an ice machine in Düsseldorf and cut a deep hole in the ice. DEG led the second break against ERC Ingolstadt 3-0. Both games were rescheduled in January. At two other games in Berlin and Ingolstadt there were longer interruptions due to defects in the lighting system.

After Christmas, Adler Mannheim took part in the traditional Spengler Cup in Davos, where they just failed to make it to the finals.

Closing table

	team	Sp	S.	OTS	SOS	OTN	SON	N	GP	%	T	GT	STR	home	guest
1.	Polar bears Berlin (M)	56	36	2	4th	1	2	11	123	73	209	156	958	23-1-1-3	13-5-2-8
2.	Frankfurt Lions	56	28	2	4th	1	1	20th	98	58	191	161	867	16-3-1-8	12-3-1-12
3.	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	56	27	3	3	2	2	19th	97	58	192	152	728	15-3-4-6	12-3-0-13
4th	Hanover Scorpions	56	24	2	2	4th	10	14th	94	56	169	177	823	12-0-8-8	12-4-6-6
5.	Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	56	27	1	0	4th	4th	20th	91	54	152	158	951	14-0-7-7	13-1-1-13
6th	DEG Metro Stars	56	25th	2	3	3	2	21st	90	54	181	148	890	16-3-1-8	9-2-4-13
7th	ERC Ingolstadt	56	24	5	2	3	0	22nd	89	52	205	181	1144	16-2-0-10	8-5-3-12
8th.	Augsburg panther	56	24	2	5	1	0	24	87	52	201	188	969	17-2-0-9	7-5-1-15
9.	Adler Mannheim	56	23	2	2	4th	3	22nd	84	50	177	177	1115	15-2-2-9	8-2-5-13
10.	Cologne Sharks	56	19th	3	3	4th	1	26th	74	45	178	190	959	13-5-2-8	6-1-3-18
11.	Iserlohn Roosters	56	18th	4th	4th	3	1	26th	74	44	166	183	1061	11-5-3-9	7-3-1-17
12.	Krefeld penguins	56	20th	1	3	0	4th	28	72	43	167	173	983	14-2-3-9	6-2-1-19
13.	Straubing Tigers	56	18th	3	2	0	6th	27	70	42	149	193	978	9-4-1-14	9-1-5-13
14th	Hamburg Freezers	56	16	2	2	4th	1	31	61	36	162	200	1029	11-2-3-12	5-2-2-19
15th	Kassel Huskies	56	16	2	0	2	2	34	56	33	151	213	1221	13-2-3-10	3-0-1-24

Abbreviations: Sp = games, S = victories, OTS = victories after overtime, SOS = victories after penalty shoot-out, OTN = defeats after extra time, SON = defeats after penalty shoot-out, N = defeats, T = goals, GT = goals conceded, Str = penalties, (M) = defending champion
Explanations:

direct qualification for the play-offs

Play-off qualifying round

Season ended

Best scorer

player	society	Games	Gates	Assists	Points
Jeff Ulmer	Frankfurt Lions	56	37	37	74
Thomas Greilinger	ERC Ingolstadt	55	38	35	73
Gates Vikingstad	Hanover Scorpions	51	14th	50	64
In it Olver	Augsburg panther	56	26th	34	60
Robert Hock	Iserlohn Rosters	56	17th	42	59
Herberts Vasiljevs	Krefeld penguins	51	22nd	36	58
Boris Blank	Krefeld penguins	54	18th	40	58
Bob Wren	ERC Ingolstadt	60	16	42	58
John Laliberte	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	56	28	29	57
Ivan Ciernik	Cologne Sharks	55	27	30th	57
Tyler Beechey	Augsburg panther	56	24	33	57
Colin Murphy	Augsburg panther	53	19th	38	57

Best goalkeeper

(Goalkeeper with at least 15 games)

Abbreviations: Sp = games, Min = ice age (in minutes), GT = goals conceded, Sv% = shots saved (in%) , GTS = goals conceded , SO = shutouts ; Fat: best value

player	team	Sp	Min	GT	SO	Sv%	GTS
Jean-Sébastien Aubin	DEG Metro Stars	54	3179: 13	130	2	92.2	2.45
Travis Scott	Hanover Scorpions	29	1661: 35	69	3	92.2	2.49
Daniar Djunusov	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	22nd	1157: 08	46	2	92.1	2.39
Patrick Marriage Calculator	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	49	2848: 21	123	1	92.0	2.59
Fred Brathwaite	Adler Mannheim	47	2756: 12	133	4th	91.4	2.90
Bobby Goepfert	Hamburg Freezers	25th	1386: 56	69	3	91.4	2.99

Play-offs

qualification

The qualifying matches were played in the " Best of Three " mode and took place on March 24, 26 and 28, 2010.

			series	1	2	3	[MR]
Augsburg panther	-	Adler Mannheim	2-0	4: 1	3: 2	-	[3: 1]
ERC Ingolstadt	-	Cologne Sharks	2: 1	1: 6	3: 2 a.d.	6: 3	[2: 2]

HR = main round

Playoff tree

	Quarter finals					Semifinals					final
	4th	Hanover Scorpions	3
	5	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	2
						4th	Hanover Scorpions	3
						7th	ERC Ingolstadt	0
	2	Frankfurt Lions	1
	7th	ERC Ingolstadt	3
											4th	Hanover Scorpions	3
											8th	Augsburg panther	0
	3	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	3
	6th	DEG Metro Stars	0
						3	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	1
						8th	Augsburg panther	3
	1	Polar bears Berlin	2
	8th	Augsburg panther	3

Quarter finals

The quarterfinals were played in the " Best of Five " mode and took place on March 30th, April 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th.

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]
Polar bears Berlin	-	Augsburg panther	2: 3	2: 1	1: 2	3: 5	5: 3	2: 6	[2: 2]
Frankfurt Lions	-	ERC Ingolstadt	1: 3	3-0	0: 2	1: 4	2: 3 a.d.	-	[1: 3]
Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	-	DEG Metro Stars	3-0	4: 2	6: 3	3: 1	-	-	[2: 2]
Hanover Scorpions	-	Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	3: 2	3: 2 a.d.	4: 3	2: 5	1: 4	4: 3	[1: 3]

HR = main round

Semifinals

The semi-finals were played in the " Best of Five " mode and took place on April 9, 11, 13, 14 and 16.

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]
Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	-	Augsburg panther	1: 3	2: 3 a.d.	0: 1	6: 1	2: 3	-	[3: 1]
Hanover Scorpions	-	ERC Ingolstadt	3-0	6-0	4: 1	5: 4 a.d.	-	-	[2: 2]

HR = main round

final

The finals were played in the " Best of Five " mode and took place on April 20th, 23rd and 25th.

			series	1	2	3	4th	5	[MR]
Hanover Scorpions	-	Augsburg panther	3-0	3: 1	3: 2 a.d.	4: 2	-	-	[2: 2]

HR = main round

Squad of the German champions

German champion Hannover Scorpions

Goalkeepers: Travis Scott , Levente Szuper , Youri Ziffzer Defenders: Peter Baumgartner , Aris Brimanis , Sascha Goc (A) , Nikolai Goc , Rainer-Georg Köttstorfer , Patrick Köppchen (A) , Andy Reiss Attackers: Sachar Blank , Tino Boos (C) , Ben Cottreau , Thomas Dolak , Matt Dzieduszycki , Garrett Festerling , Chris Herperger , Martin Hlinka , Klaus Kathan , Marvin Krüger , Adam Mitchell , Nikolaus Mondt , Tore Vikingstad , David Wolf Head coach: Hans Zach

referee

The following main referees were used in the 2009/10 season:

Roland Aumüller Stephan Bauer Marcus Brill Lars Brüggemann (from December 2009) Heiko Dahle Alfred Hascher Georg Jablukov * Stephan Kadow Steffen Klau Carsten Lenhart

Rick Looker * Christian Oswald Daniel Piechaczek * Martin Reichert Willi Schimm Richard Schütz Ulpi Sicorschi Raik van Gameren Stefan Vogl

* Professional referee

TV rights

The TV rights of the DEL lay in the 2009/10 season continued when pay TV transmitters Sky Germany , the first time individual games in HD -quality radiated. In addition, the European sports broadcaster Eurosport again secured the rights for two live DEL games on free TV . Das Erste , ZDF , the third programs, ProSiebenSat.1 Media , n-tv and some regional channels had post-exploitation rights. In addition, game summaries have been broadcast on the Internet on the “DEL-TV” platform since the 2005/06 season , with the images being made up of stadium TV and Sky.

Web links

• All results and tables of the DEL 2009/10 at hockey-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bietigheim withdraws DEL application. (No longer available online.) In: steelers.de. May 13, 2009, archived from the original on April 15, 2014 ; accessed on May 30, 2017 . 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.  
2. ^ Results of the 74th shareholders' meeting. In: aev-panther.de. July 2, 2009, accessed May 31, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Spiegel Online, Nuremberg Ice Tigers avert bankruptcy
4. ↑ Sport-Bild 15/2009, page 58
5. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine , Hannover-Scorpions-Profis forego money
6. ↑ morgenpost.de: The polar bears' home series breaks after 17 wins
7. ↑ del.org: ERC Ingolstadt gets NHL professional Clymer  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ eishockey.info: Hannover Scorpions: Travis Scott returns in DEL - contract until the end of the season , November 24, 2009, accessed on November 23, 2012
9. ^ Frankfurter Rundschau , Stewart should save Cologne sharks , December 4, 2009, accessed on November 23, 2012
10. ↑ Rheinische Post Online, Adduono is aiming for play-offs ( memento of the original from December 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ^ Straubing against Frankfurt is repeated. In: spox.com. December 14, 2009, accessed May 30, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Welt Online, ice machine broken - DEL game canceled
13. ↑ DEL main referee 2009/2010 ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2010 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.  
14. ↑ del.org, The Tuesday Games - December 1st, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Rheinische Post Online, Eurosport is broadcasting games live again ( Memento from December 15, 2009 in the Internet Archive )