– The champion is Berlin, Corona past and a hockey game with a minimum duration of 60 minutes. At least one realization will last longer than the 2021/2022 DEL season. We’ve put together everything else you need to know ahead of the 2022/2023 DEl season.
What’s new? what’s new and why?
15 teams, 56 game days, six teams go directly to the quarterfinals, two more playoff participants will be determined in the so-called first round of the playoffs. After that, you need four wins (in a maximum of seven games) to advance to the next round. At least that’s the plan. At first glance, little has changed in the German hockey league. On the face of it, a former DEL champion replaced another former DEL champion. Krefeld went down, Frankfurt went up. in 2010 in June, the DEL license was revoked from the Lions, and the main club started again in the regional league. Under the name Löwen, the founder of DEL returns to Germany’s top division and with him remembers an extraordinary hockey game. In Nuremberg, fans fondly remember the stunning and exhilaratingly one-sided semi-final series against the Lions in 1999. Two years earlier, the two teams had combined for a record that will hopefully never be broken in the DEL: they and the Lions combined for 336 penalty minutes in a 7-3 Linde Stadium win over the Ice Tigers. After 25 years and a week, guests again in Nuremberg: Löwen Frankfurt.

So many tigers: Nuremberg starts in Straubing on Friday.
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When does it start? Where? And where can I see it if I want to stay at home?
Ice tigers start in Straubing. This applies to almost every preparation, the Gäubodencup has established itself as the first (small) sporting and (large) social highlight. In September 2022, the Ice Tigers will also begin the DEL regular season at the legendary Cold Ice Stadium by the water tower. There it begins on Friday, September 16 at 7:30 p.m., after a good two-and-a-half hours The Ice Tigers know how to classify the positives from a quiet but supposedly super-intense preseason. After defeating Swedish champions Färjestad, the Straubing Tigers already have four games in the Champions Hockey League and are no longer considered secret favorites by experts and wannabes. On Sunday (4:30 p.m.) the German champions will then present themselves at the Nürnberger Versicherung Arena. The opening program can be more difficult. The games can still be watched on MagentaSport from the sofa, subway or under the table at the in-laws.

What are ice tigers good for? It will also depend on the performances of Hayden Shaw and Niklas Treutle (right).
© Sportfoto Zink / Thomas Hahn, Sportfoto Zink / ThHa
Are the Ice Tigers better or worse than 2022/2023?
Eighth place after the main round, fifth place in Tom Rowe’s fictional table, the end of the season after three games…