Munich’s incredible dominance
Red Bull fillets the entire DEL competition
12/15/2022, 3:28 p.m
Red Bull Munich is unstoppable in the German Ice Hockey League and is enthroned at the top by a large margin. The eleventh win in a row against the Kölner Haie breaks the club’s own record. The insatiable are not content with that.
If you want to know when Red Bull Munich last got nothing, you have to look back quite a bit in the calendar. It happened in Mannheim at the beginning of November, since then Bayern have been rushing through the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) like an express train, with a 6: 3 (3: 1, 1: 0, 2: 2) against the Kölner Haie, the eleventh win in Series – the club’s own record in the German Ice Hockey League is set.
“We’re on a great run,” said Chris DeSousa at MagentaSport, with two goals and two assists, the Canadian forward was the match winner. Then, with a big chest, he sent a message: “As long as we play the way we want, in our system, we are a team that is difficult to beat.” The competition is lagging behind, Munich has a proud 14 points ahead of ERC Ingolstadt and 16 points ahead of Adler Mannheim at the top of the table in the middle of the main round. If there were no playoffs in the DEL, the preliminary decision in the championship race would have been made long ago.
“Homework done and bagged the next threesome,” the club wrote on Twitter after the next demonstration. In front of 3,910 spectators, the team showed how stable they currently are against the Haie, who are admittedly severely depleted. When Maxi Kammerer (2nd) conceded an early goal, DeSousa responded directly (4th) and then took the lead (14th). After the 2:4 of Cologne, the Munich team immediately hit back, after the 3:5 also.
“Everything has to be right against Munich”
Don Jackson, who also had to cope with a few failures, was visibly satisfied. “We responded quickly to the first goal we conceded,” said the coach, praising the team’s performance. His opponent Uwe Krupp only shrugged his shoulders: “Everything has to be right against Munich to get a good result.” And nobody can do that at the moment. No matter who is on the other side, the winner is always Munich. The club managed eleven consecutive wins for the third time in its DEL history. On Friday (7.30 p.m. / MagentaSport) the seventh home win in a row beckons against the Fischtown Pinguins Bremerhaven.
If you believe the young defender Maksymilian Szuber, the end of the road has not yet been reached. “We’re winning everything right now,” said the 20-year-old, but now they want to “try to become more unbeatable”. Overall, things are going “quite well”. That’s a gross understatement. Munich scored six goals for the third time in a row, in the last six games it was a total of 30. “We are very focused. We do what is necessary,” said US defender Jonathon Blum on the secret of success. “We played hard and fast, we scored and, as always, we could count on Mathias Niederberger in goal,” DeSousa summarized the game. “Our team is really good, we know that.” The opponents too.