DEL 2016/17

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The 2016/17 DEL season was the 23rd season of the German Ice Hockey League , the highest league in German ice hockey . 14 teams took part in the league. The season started on September 16, 2016. The main round ended on February 26, 2017.

Attendees

The Anschutz Entertainment Group , owner of Hamburg Freezers , announced on May 18, 2016 that it would no longer apply for a license for the Freezers for the 2016/17 season. The Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven applied for the freezers license. All 14 clubs received the license on July 1st, 2016:

Fish town penguins Augsburg panther Polar bears Berlin Düsseldorfer 0EG ERC Ingolstadt Iserlohn Roosters Cologne Sharks Krefeld penguins Adler Mannheim EHC Red Bull Munich Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers Schwenninger Wild Wings Straubing Tigers Grizzlies Wolfsburg

Participants in the 2016/17 DEL season

club	place	Main round	Play-offs
Augsburg panther	augsburg	12.	-
Polar bears Berlin	Berlin	2.	Quarter finals
Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven	Bremerhaven	Climbers	-
Düsseldorfer EG	Dusseldorf	5.	Quarter finals
ERC Ingolstadt	Ingolstadt	8th.	Play-off qualification
Iserlohn Roosters	Iserlohn	3.	Quarter finals
Cologne Sharks	Cologne	7th	Semifinals
Krefeld penguins	Krefeld	13.	-
Adler Mannheim	Mannheim	10.	Play-off qualification
EHC Red Bull Munich	Munich	1.	master
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	Nuremberg	6th	Semifinals
Straubing Tigers	Straubing	9.	Quarter finals
Schwenninger Wild Wings	Villingen-Schwenningen	14th	-
Grizzlies Wolfsburg	Wolfsburg	4th	Runner-up

society	Budget in millions	Audience capacity	Average audience
EHC Munich	12.0	6,142	4,857
Adler Mannheim	10.5	13,600	10,812
Cologne Sharks	10.5	18,500	12,661
Polar bears Berlin	10.0	14,200	12,052
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	8.5	7,828	5,172
ERC Ingolstadt	8.0	4,815	3,752
Grizzlies Wolfsburg	7.0	4,503	2,687
Düsseldorfer EG	6.5	13,200	7,786
Krefeld penguins	5.5	8,029	4,336
Straubing Tigers	5.1	5,817	4,270
Iserlohn Roosters	5.0	4,967	4,394
Schwenninger Wild Wings	5.0	6.215	4,569
Augsburg panther	4.0	6,300	4,919
Fish town penguins	3.5	4,647	4,468

mode

The 14 clubs played a double round with 52 games per club. The best six teams qualified directly for the play-off quarter-finals, the teams in positions 7 to 10 played two more play-off participants in best-of-three series. The other play-off series were played in Best of Seven mode . The champions and the first two of the main round qualified for the 2017/18 Champions Hockey League .

Rule changes

Since this season, the extension of a game in the main round has been played with three against three field players, as has been the case in the National Hockey League since 2015.

Main round

Crosstab

The crosstab shows the results of all games this season. The home team is listed in the middle column, the visiting team in the top row.

First round

society

Second half

AEV

EBB

BHV

ING

ISE

COLOGNE

KEV

MUC

NIT

STR

WOB

AEV

EBB

BHV

ING

ISE

COLOGNE

KEV

MUC

NIT

STR

WOB

2: 1

4: 1

3: 2

4: 5

5: 4

3: 2

4: 3 a.d.

3: 2 a.d.

1: 3

4-0

5: 3

3: 4 n.p.

3-0

AEV

2: 1

3: 7

4: 2

2: 4

4: 3 n.p.

1: 4

3: 1

1: 4

6: 5 a.d.

4-0

4: 3

4: 1

4: 3

6: 4

4: 2

5-0

3-0

4: 3

0: 3

1: 3

4: 3

2: 4

3: 2 n.p.

5: 2

1-0

2: 3 a.d.

EBB

0: 2

4: 1

2: 1

4: 1

5: 4

1: 2

2: 3 a.d.

3: 2 a.d.

3: 4

1: 3

1: 2 a.d.

1-0

2: 1

3: 5

3: 1

2: 5

2: 1 n.p.

3: 1

2: 5

2: 5

3: 5

1: 3

2: 1 a.d.

4: 3

1: 5

2: 3

BHV

4: 2

4: 3

1: 5

1: 2

6: 3

6-0

3: 2 a.d.

6: 7 a.d.

2: 3

0: 3

5: 3

3: 4 a.d.

0: 1

2: 3

3: 4

5: 4

6: 2

4: 2

4: 2

2: 4

1: 2

0: 2

3: 2 n.p.

0: 4

3: 2 n.p.

0: 2

3: 2 n.p.

0: 3

4: 2

1: 2 a.d.

5: 4

1: 2

2: 1

2: 7

3: 7

4: 2

2: 5

2: 3

2-0

2: 4

4: 7

2: 4

5: 1

3: 2

4: 8

4: 2

2: 1

3: 5

3: 4

4: 2

4-0

2: 3

ING

3: 4

7: 1

2: 3 n.p.

7: 2

4: 3

4: 2

1: 3

3: 4

2: 5

5: 4

5: 1

6: 5 a.d.

3: 6

2: 1

2-0

2: 3 a.d.

3: 1

1: 5

3: 2 n.p.

4: 1

1: 2

2: 1

3: 4 n.p.

4: 2

3: 2

1: 6

ISE

1: 3

4: 3 n.p.

3: 1

2: 6

3: 2 n.p.

1: 2 a.d.

7: 3

3: 4

5: 2

2: 5

3: 2 a.d.

3: 4 a.d.

0: 4

3: 2

4: 1

0: 2

1: 2 n.p.

1: 5

7: 2

2: 1

4-0

3: 1

3: 1

6: 1

2: 4

2: 3

COLOGNE

6: 1

2-0

3: 2

0: 2

0: 1

3: 2

1: 4

2: 4

2: 1

4: 2

4: 2

3: 1

0: 1

3: 4 n.p.

3: 5

1: 3

2: 3 a.d.

1: 2

3: 4

1: 3

4: 3

0: 2

3: 5

0: 3

3: 4

3: 4 a.d.

KEV

5: 4

3: 2 a.d.

2: 4

0: 4

2: 1 a.d.

3: 2 a.d.

1: 3

2: 5

1: 4

3: 4 a.d.

1: 3

4: 2

2: 1 a.d.

5: 3

2: 1

4: 2

4: 1

0: 1

5: 1

0: 2

4: 1

3: 6

3: 4 a.d.

0: 2

3-0

4: 3 a.d.

2: 1 a.d.

4: 3 n.p.

4: 3

7: 1

4: 2

5: 4

4: 2

6: 2

3: 4

3: 2 a.d.

1: 4

4: 1

4: 3

6: 2

3: 2

1: 2

7: 1

3: 2 n.p.

4: 3

1: 2

6: 4

3: 2

2: 4

5: 1

2: 1 a.d.

4: 2

MUC

2: 1 n.p.

3: 1

1: 3

5: 2

3: 2 a.d.

6: 1

5: 2

7: 2

3: 5

1: 2

7: 1

5-0

3: 5

1: 2

5: 2

2: 3

6: 5

2-0

3-0

2: 1

5-0

5: 6 a.d.

6: 5 a.d.

3: 4

5: 2

4: 2

NIT

3: 2

6: 1

6: 4

5: 2

2: 5

5: 4

3: 4

6: 3

5: 1

3: 2 n.p.

4: 1

3: 1

4: 1

4: 5 a.d.

5: 2

2-0

2: 3 n.p.

3: 2

1: 0 a.d.

3: 2

3: 7

2: 4

3: 2 a.d.

3: 4 a.d.

5: 2

2: 7

STR

6: 2

6: 3

2: 5

1: 3

5: 2

2: 3

3: 2

3: 4 a.d.

4: 5

6: 2

8: 4

1: 2 n.p.

3-0

3-0

3: 5

3: 2 a.d.

1: 3

5: 4 a.d.

2: 3

0: 4

3: 4 n.p.

5: 4 n.p.

1: 2

2: 1 a.d.

4: 2

3: 4

1: 6

2: 1

5: 1

4: 1

4: 1

2: 1

2: 5

1: 3

3: 7

2: 6

4: 3

3: 2

1: 3

1: 2

3: 2 a.d.

5: 3

3: 4 a.d.

4: 2

4: 3 a.d.

3: 5

3-0

2: 4

1: 5

2: 1

4: 1

2: 1

WOB

3: 4 a.d.

7: 1

7: 6

4: 1

5: 2

4: 2

3: 6

4-0

0: 1

3: 4 a.d.

0: 1 n.p.

3: 2 n.p.

2: 5

Closing table

Three points are awarded to a team for a win after normal playing time, if the game is a draw after 60 minutes, both teams receive one point, the winner of the five-minute extra time (only with three against three field players) or after a necessary penalty shoot-out receives another point credited. If a team loses in regular time, it does not receive any points.

	team	Sp	S.	OTS	SOS	OTN	SON	N	Pt	%	T	GT	home	guest
1.	EHC Red Bull Munich	52	31	3	2	3	1	12	107	69%	188	122	15-4-0-7	16-1-4-5
2.	Adler Mannheim	52	30th	5	1	3	1	12	106	68%	183	135	16-4-1-6	15-2-3-6
3.	Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers	52	27	4th	3	4th	3	11	102	65%	177	132	18-2-1-5	9-4-7-6
4th	Cologne Sharks	52	31	1	0	0	2	18th	97	62%	145	109	16-0-1-9	15-1-1-9
5.	Grizzlies Wolfsburg	52	25th	4th	1	5	1	16	91	58%	153	128	12-3-4-7	13-2-2-9
6th	Augsburg panther	52	23	5	2	1	3	18th	87	56%	155	152	14-4-1-7	9-3-3-11
7th	ERC Ingolstadt	52	22nd	2	0	2	4th	22nd	76	49%	159	157	12-1-1-12	10-1-5-10
8th.	Polar bears Berlin	52	19th	1	1	5	2	24	68	44%	125	148	14-2-3-7	5-0-4-17
9.	Straubing Tigers	52	18th	3	0	4th	3	24	67	43%	147	168	12-2-5-7	6-1-2-17
10.	Fish town penguins	52	17th	3	2	3	0	27	64	41%	144	162	8-3-2-13	9-2-1-14
11.	Düsseldorfer EG	52	16	3	4th	1	0	28	63	40%	127	161	9-3-1-13	7-4-0-15
12.	Schwenninger Wild Wings	52	12	5	4th	2	2	27	58	37%	122	156	8-5-1-12	4-4-3-15
13.	Iserlohn Roosters	52	13	1	3	7th	1	27	55	35%	129	171	10-4-4-8	3-0-4-19
14th	Krefeld penguins	52	11	5	1	5	1	29	51	33%	120	173	4-3-4-15	7-3-2-14

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, pts = points, T = goals, GT = goals conceded
Explanations: direct qualification for the play-offs and qualification for the Champions Hockey League 2017/18 , direct qualification for the play-offs , first play-off round , season ended

Best scorer

Patrick Reimer was the first player to score his 300th goal in the DEL this season. He also scored at least 20 goals in the eighth season in a row. Also a DEL record.

Abbreviations: Sp = games, T = goals, V = assists , pts = points, +/- = plus / minus , SM = penalty minutes; Fat: best value

Nat.	player	team	Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
	Patrick Reimer	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	52	26th	28	54	+13	18th
	Steven Reinprecht	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	52	16	35	51	+20	10
	Keith Aucoin	EHC Red Bull Munich	52	15th	34	49	+21	52
	Leonhard Pföderl	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	52	22nd	26th	48	+18	18th
	Yasin Ehliz	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	51	16	32	48	+20	32
	Mike Connolly	Straubing Tigers	52	9	39	48	-8th	53
	Brent Aubin	Grizzlies Wolfsburg	52	25th	21st	46	± 0	71
	Philip Gogulla	Cologne Sharks	51	17th	29	46	+15	18th
	Jack Combs	Fish town penguins	51	27	18th	45	+3	12
	Michael Wolf	EHC Red Bull Munich	52	17th	28	45	+28	16
	Yannic Seidenberg 1	EHC Red Bull Munich	52	12	29	41	+30	16
	Tim Conboy 2	Düsseldorfer EG	34	2	3	5	-1	144

¹ For comparison: players with the best plus / minus value
² For comparison: players with the most penalty minutes
(as of the end of the 2016/17 season)

Best goalkeeper

Felix Brückmann celebrated four shutouts in a row and stayed 315 minutes without conceding a goal, a new DEL record.

(Goalkeepers who completed at least 40% of the total playing time of their team)
Abbreviations: Sp = games, Min = ice time (in minutes), GT = goals conceded, Sv% = shots saved (in%) , GTS = goals conceded , SO = shutouts ; Fat: best value

Nat.	player	society	Sp	Min	GT	SO	Sv%	GTS
	Gustaf Wesslau	Cologne Sharks	50	2991: 28	93	5	93.2	1.87
	Andreas Jenike	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	23	1344: 52	46	3	93.3	2.05
	Felix Brückmann	Grizzlies Wolfsburg	33	1998: 32	67	6th	92.0	2.01
	Danny from the birches	EHC Red Bull Munich	28	1688: 02	60	2	92.6	2.13
	Gerald Kuhn	Fish town penguins	30th	1722: 36	77	1	92.0	2.68
	Dustin Strahlmeier	Schwenninger Wild Wings	35	2039: 21	95	1	92.2	2.80
	Chet Pickard	Iserlohn Roosters	26th	1329: 21	66	0	92.0	2.98
	Petri Vehanen	Polar bears Berlin	43	2497: 20	103	3	91.8	2.47
	Jochen Reimer	Nuremberg Ice Tigers	31	1799: 02	79	3	91.0	2.63
	Jonathan Boutin	Augsburg panther	36	1995: 10	89	2	91.3	2.68

(Status: end of season 2016/17)

Play-offs

Play-off tree

qualification

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

1

EHC Red Bull Munich

4th

10

Fish town penguins

0

7th

ERC Ingolstadt

0

1

EHC Red Bull Munich

4th

10

Fish town penguins

2

8th

Polar bears Berlin

1

2

Adler Mannheim

3

8th

Polar bears Berlin

4th

(The teams are reset after the first two rounds.)

1

EHC Red Bull Munich

4th

5

Grizzlies Wolfsburg

1

3

Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers

4th

6th

Augsburg panther

3

8th

Polar bears Berlin

2

3

Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers

2

9

Straubing Tigers

0

5

Grizzlies Wolfsburg

4th

4th

Cologne Sharks

3

5

Grizzlies Wolfsburg

4th

qualification

The qualifying games were played in the " Best of Three " mode and took place on March 1st and 3rd, 2017.

	series	1	2	3	[MR]
ERC Ingolstadt - Fischtown Pinguins	0: 2	1: 4 (1: 1, 0: 2, 0: 1)	5: 6 (1: 2, 2: 2, 2: 2)	-	[1: 3]
Eisbären Berlin - Straubing Tigers	2-0	3: 1 (1: 0, 0: 1, 2: 0)	3: 2 n.V. (1: 2, 1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)	-	[1: 3]

HR = main round

Quarter finals

The quarter-finals were played in best-of-seven mode and took place on March 7th, 8th, 10th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 19th and 21st of March 2017.

	series	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	[MR]
EHC Red Bull Munich - Fischtown Pinguins	4-0	4: 1 (0: 1, 3: 0, 1: 0)	3: 0 (2: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)	3: 2 (1: 1, 1: 0, 1: 1)	8: 2 (2: 1, 4: 0, 2: 1)	-	-	-	[2: 2]
Cologne Sharks - Grizzlies Wolfsburg	3: 4	2: 1 n.V. (1: 0, 0: 1, 0: 0, 1: 0)	1: 3 (1: 1, 0: 2, 0: 0)	0: 4 (0: 2, 0: 2, 0: 0)	1: 5 (0: 1, 0: 1, 1: 3)	3: 1 (0: 1, 2: 0, 1: 0)	1: 0 (0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)	0: 1 (0: 0, 0: 1, 0: 0)	[2: 2]
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers - Augsburg panthers	4: 3	1: 4 (1: 1, 0: 1, 0: 2)	3: 1 (1: 0, 2: 0, 0: 1)	5: 3 (3: 2, 0: 1, 2: 0)	0: 4 (0: 1, 0: 2, 0: 1)	1: 5 (0: 3, 0: 1, 1: 1)	3: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)	5: 3 (1: 1, 2: 0, 2: 2)	[2: 2]
Adler Mannheim - polar bears Berlin	3: 4	4: 3 n.V. (0: 1, 2: 0, 1: 2, 1: 0)	3: 6 (2: 2, 1: 1, 0: 3)	3: 2 (2: 1, 0: 1, 1: 0)	1: 6 (1: 1, 0: 3, 0: 2)	3: 1 (0: 0, 0: 0, 3: 1)	3: 4 n.V. (0: 3, 2: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1)	1: 2 n.V. (0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1)	[2: 2]

HR = main round

Semifinals

The semi-finals will be played in the best-of-seven mode and took place on March 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, and April 2 and 4, 2017.

	series	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	[MR]
EHC Red Bull Munich - Eisbären Berlin	4: 1	2: 3 n.V. (0: 0, 2: 2, 0: 0, 0: 0, 0: 1)	2: 1 (0: 1, 2: 0, 0: 0)	5: 1 (3: 0, 2: 0, 0: 1)	3: 1 (0: 1, 2: 0, 1: 0)	2: 1 n.V. (0: 1, 1: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)	-	-	[4: 0]
Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers - Grizzlies Wolfsburg	2: 4	5: 1 (1: 0, 0: 0, 4: 1)	3: 5 (0: 3, 2: 0, 1: 2)	3: 4 n.V. (2: 1, 1: 0, 0: 2, 0: 1)	3: 4 (0: 1, 2: 2, 1: 1)	4: 1 (1: 0, 2: 1, 1: 0)	0: 3 (0: 2, 0: 1, 0: 0)	-	[3: 1]

HR = main round

final

The finals were played in best-of-seven mode. The games took place on April 9, 11, 13, 15 and 17, 2017.

	series	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	[MR]
EHC Red Bull Munich - Grizzlies Wolfsburg	4: 1	3: 2 n.V. (0: 1, 2: 1, 0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0)	3: 2 (0: 1, 3: 1, 0: 0)	1: 2 (1: 0, 0: 2, 0: 0)	7: 2 (2: 2, 3: 0, 2: 0)	4: 0 (1: 0, 1: 0, 2: 0)	-	-	[3: 1]

HR = main round

Squad of the German champions

German champion EHC Red Bull Munich

Goalkeepers: Danny from the Birches , David Leggio , Ilya Sharipov Defenders: Konrad Abeltshauser , Daryl Boyle , Derek Joslin , Florian Kettemer , Deron Quint , Richie Regehr , Yann Sauvé , Matt Smaby Attackers: Keith Aucoin , Mads Christensen , Andreas Eder , Jerome Flaake , Jason Jaffray , Dominik Kahun , Maximilian Kastner , Brooks Macek , Jon Matsumoto , Frank Mauer , Steve Pinizzotto , Yannic Seidenberg , Michael Wolf , Tobias Wörle Coaching staff: Don Jackson , Derek Mayer , Matt McIlvane

Awards

• DEL Player of the Year - Patrick Reimer , Nuremberg Ice Tigers
• Striker of the year - Patrick Reimer, Nürnberg Ice Tigers
• Defender of the Year - Konrad Abeltshauser , EHC Red Bull Munich
• Goalkeeper of the Year - Gustaf Wesslau , Kölner Haie
• DEL Rookie of the Year - Maximilian Kammerer , Düsseldorfer EG
• Trainer of the Year - Rob Wilson , Nuremberg Ice Tigers
• Robert Müller Fair Play Trophy - Schwenninger Wild Wings
• MVP of the playoffs - Yannic Seidenberg , EHC Red Bull Munich

marketing

For the first time, all DEL games were broadcast live. The transmission rights were granted to Deutsche Telekom . One game per week was broadcast on free-to-air television, at least 40 of which were exclusively on Sport1 .

Web links

• All results and tables of the DEL 2016/17 at hockey-db.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hockeyweb.de
2. ↑ aev-panther.de
3. ↑ No license application. In: FAZ.net . May 25, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Sport1.de: Fischtown Pinguins hope after Freezers-Aus on DEL starting place. In: sport1.de. May 25, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Bremerhaven receives 14th DEL license for the 2016/17 season. In: del.org. February 26, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2016 . 
6. ↑ nwzonline.de
7. ↑ DEL scorer statistics. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 13, 2017 ; accessed on February 26, 2016 . 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.  
8. ^ Goalkeeper statistics DEL. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 13, 2017 ; accessed on February 26, 2016 . 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.  
9. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 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. 
10. ↑ The DEL live on SPORT1 until 2020. Sport1 GmbH acquires extensive media rights to DEL , del.org, April 5, 2016 from Deutsche Telekom .