4: 3 after penalty shootout: DEL newcomer surprised in Cologne: Steelers pull the sharks’ teeth – more local sport
With striker Yannick Wenzel a further departure has been determined since Friday. The 23-year-old right-handed shooter terminates his contract with the Bietigheim Steelers and will switch to a DEL2 club, as Managing Director Volker Schoch confirmed in an interview with the BZ. Wenzel was trained at Starbulls Rosenheim and joined SCB in 2018. For the Swabians he played 159 DEL2 matches, in which he collected 41 points scorer (15 goals, 26 assists). In the current DEL season, however, he has not yet played a season. “He wasn’t getting on as well with the role he was supposed to play with us as he’d thought. As a young player he naturally wants to play, “Schoch explained and emphasized:” There were no bad words. We part on the good. “
For the prestige duel on Sunday (7 p.m.) against the Schwenninger Wild Wings, the Steelers will set a record number of spectators in the House of Lords. More than 2,800 tickets had already been sold by Friday morning, 600 of which were secured by fans of the Black Forest. Schoch expects between 3200 and 3500 visitors. 2834 spectators made a pilgrimage to the EgeTrans-Arena for the DEL premiere against Ingolstadt. The last derbies between the two clubs took place in the 2012/13 second division. At that time, Bietigheim also won the playoff finals series after a 0-2 deficit with 4-2 and became champions for the second time. Record player René Schoofs was the only professional from the current Steelers squad to take partae