After the early termination of the ice hockey season, Bayernligist HC Landsberg has nevertheless already made an important personnel decision: Fabio Carciola remains coach of the Riverkings.
"He is convinced of our way to increasingly promote and integrate our own young talents", says HCL President Frank Kurz, "you can already see that from the way he integrated numerous young players into the first team last season". Carciola and the HCL-presidium quickly agreed in view of the team's achievements, and together they decided to extend the contract for the next season.
However, due to the current situation, it is not yet possible to predict when this season will start and how the leagues will be composed.
The step to the north of Germany was absolutely right: the HOREX team now met with great interest and open enthusiasm at the Hamburg Motorcycle Days.
For the premium manufacturer it was the first participation in the established event in the Hanseatic city and it paid off immediately. Throughout the entire event, there was consistently high demand from the numerous visitors for the unique VR6 motorcycles from the factory in Landsberg am Lech, Upper Bavaria, and also a lot of praise for the exclusive HOREX stand. The great success in Hamburg is thus giving further impetus to considerations of opening another HOREX location in northern Germany in the near future.
With two victories, the Riverkings have already made participation in the play-offs to the ice hockey Oberliga almost a foregone conclusion one matchday before the end of the interlocking round. The somewhat surprising 4-2 win in Passau was followed two days later by a landslide victory over Klostersee.
With 10:2 they shot the guests from Grafing, who were completely indisposed that evening, out of the hall. With better exploitation of oppoertunities, the result could have been even higher.
Klostersee had even taken the lead through Wren after just under nine minutes. But then the Riverkings really got going, with the scorers initially coming in a brace: Reuter and the all-conquering Dennis Sturm turned the 0-1 into a 6-1 until halfway through the game, after which the other attackers were allowed to cheer as well, with Gäbelein reserving the right to make a double-digit final score five minutes before the end of the game.
As expected, things had been tighter in Passau. Mitchell and Charvat had given the Riverkings a 2-0 lead over the favourites, but the hosts could not be shaken off and in the final phase came close to 3-2. Krammer with his Empty-Net-Goal in the final minute secured the points for the HCL.
With this, the Landsbergers have regained sixth place, which is enough for direct play-off qualification. The possibility that they will be intercepted by Waldkraiburg on the final matchday is only a theoretical danger with a lead of three points and 23 goals. The quarter-finals will then be played in best-of-five mode, with the first play-off match taking place on 13 March.
Goals for Landsberg in Passau: Mitchell, Charvat, Kerber, Krammer
Goals for Landsberg against Klostersee: Sturm (4), Reuter (2), Reichenender, Machacek, Kerber, Gäbelein.
The 3C-Carbon Group AG is the exclusive main sponsor of the HC Landsberg.
HOREX takes a further step and presents its fascinating VR6 motorcycles for the first time at the "Salon du 2 Roues" in Lyon.
The German premium manufacturer will be represented with its current model range at the 27th edition of this prestigious event in the south of France. As always, the HOREX team is looking forward to a visit on site. The "Salon du 2 Roues" will take place from Thursday, February 13 to Sunday, February 16 at the Eurexpo exhibition center, which covers over 100,000 m2 and is located east of Lyon city center. With the opening of the exhibition gates, HOREX will be open daily from 9 a.m. to all interested parties.
Strong HC Landsberg loses to the hosts only in the penalty shootout.
A mostly convincing performance was rewarded with only one point at the end. For a long time it looked as if HCL would leave the ice as the winner. Jähnichen, Mitchell and Raß had given a 3:1 lead when ex-Landsberger Slavicek conceded a goal. Miesbach put pressure in the early stages, but the Landsbergers convinced with beautiful individual performances that led to the goals.
In the second period, however, the Carciola squad lost the touch completely at times with numerous disc losses. The home side took merciless advantage of this period of weakness and from their point of view even made the 1:3 a 4:3. When hopes already seemed to be swept away, Daniel Menge once again put himself in the limelight and equalized to 4:4.
Despite a powerplay in overtime, the Riverkings did not score any more, so that both teams had to shoot for a penalty. There Dennis Sturm on the Landsberg side conjured up two spectacular successful attempts. However, he failed in his third attempt, his opponent Dusan Frosch scored in return, so that two points went to Miesbach and the Landsbergers brought home a point.
Goals for Landsberg in Miesbach: Jähnichen, Mitchell, Raß, Menge.
The 3C-Carbon Group AG is the exclusive main sponsor of HC Landsberg.
