1990–91 ice hockey Bundesliga season

The season 1990 /91 Hockey league was the 33rd season of the highest German league and also the first all-German championship after the Second World War. German masters were for the second time in a row, the Düsseldorf EC after the Cologne EC was defeated in the decisive fifth game Final on 19 March 1991.

• 2.1 Final Table
• 2.2 Best Scorer

• 3.1 1st Round
• 3.2 Round 2

• 5.1 quarterfinals
• 5.2 Semi-finals
• 5.3 Games for 3rd place
• 5.4 final

Requirements

Participant

• EHC Dynamo Berlin
• Düsseldorf EC
• Eintracht Frankfurt
• EHC Freiburg
• Kölner EC
• EV Landshut
• Mannheimer ERC
• EC Hedos Munich
• SB Rosenheim
• Schwenningen ERC
• PEV white water

Mode

The Hockey area was the first sport that took place before the unification of the political unit and thus played a pioneering role. The number of Bundesliga teams was increased by the integration of the last two remaining teams in the GDR Oberliga, the SC Dynamo Berlin from 1990 EHC Dynamo Berlin and SG Dynamo White Water, from 1990, the PEV white water, to twelve. While the increase in the Bundesliga in the determination of the German master changed nothing - was played according to the proven play-off system the championship - there were some changes in the competition format in the relegation question. The teams ranked nine to twelve first played in a first play -down round (the Ninth to the Twelfth and tenth against the Eleventh ) in the " Best of Seven" mode against each other. For the winners of the league was secured. The loser then had to compete against each other in another round in the " Best of Five" mode. The loser went straight into the 2nd Bundesliga and was replaced by their master, who could be promoted directly. In contrast, the second winner of this play -down round had the chance to be in a relegation round against the second of the 2nd Bundesliga - played in " Best of Three" mode - to secure the league.

Preliminary round

The EHC Dynamo Berlin sat in the home games against the EHC Freiburg ( 7:4 ) and Eintracht Frankfurt ( 6:7 ) is not an eligible players. Both games were evaluated with 0:5 against Dynamo.

Final Table

Abbreviations: Sp = Matches, W = Wins, D = Draws, L = Defeats, (N) = newbie, (M) = titleholder Notes: = play-offs, = Play -downs.

Best Scorer

Play -downs

The first play -down round was played in the mode " Best of Seven", the second in the " Best of Five" mode.

The two new members from East Germany after the closing of the double round end of the table, lost the first play -down round and then had to deny also the crucial relegation battle. Here, the EHC Dynamo Berlin was relegated directly and was replaced by the Master of the 2nd Bundesliga, the ESV Kaufbeuren. In contrast, the PEV white water got the chance to secure the league in the relegation to the Second Bundesliga 2, the Krefeld EV.

First round

2nd round

Play off

The play-offs were played in the " Best of Three". The decisive game was held in Krefeld.

The descent question was decided jointly by the financial situation of the Bundesliga clubs. The team of Eintracht Frankfurt retired after the season back for financial reasons from the Bundesliga. This decision of the Frankfurt fell even before the play-offs was completed for the last free place Bundesliga. The DEB therefore decided to award the last two Bundesliga free spaces define a Nachrückreihenfolge that looked as follows: PEV white water, Krefeld EV 's victory in the relegation, EHC Dynamo Berlin, Krefeld EV for a loss in the relegation. Since the DEB published this decision before the decisive third relegation match and the PEV white water thereby in each case remained in the Bundesliga, the team of the Krefeld EV could win the series without much of a fight.

Play-offs

All play-off rounds, with the exception of the game for 3rd place, were played in the " Best of Five" mode.

First All- German champion was the Düsseldorf EC, which was able to win their fifth title overall. In the final series they sat down in the Rhenish duel against their arch-rivals, the Kölner EC, by. Even the semi-finals were very dramatic, both finalists had yet to make up a 0:2 deficit in the series "Best of Five" to reach the playoffs.

Quarterfinals

Semifinal

Games for 3rd place

Final

Squad of the German Master

Goalkeepers: Helmut de Raaf, Mark Flemming, Lars wishes

Defender: Christian Althoff, Mike Schmidt, Christoph Kreutzer, Andreas Niederberger, Rick Amann, Uli Hiemer, Jürgen Schulz, Robert Sterflinger

Attacker: Dieter Willmann, Chris Valentine, Manfred Wolf, Peter- John Lee, Olaf Scholz, Henrik Hölscher, Thomas Werner, Oliver Kasper, Gerd Truntschka, Petr Hejma junior, Dieter nurture, Andreas Brockmann, Bernd Truntschka, Michael Flemming, Rainer Zerwesz, Brian Hannon, Don McLaren

Head coach Hans Zach