Since 13 Play is Stéphane Richer, in the meantime, sporting Director and coach of the polar bears. Ten Time has been lost one by one in this time, even seven Times. And what of the athletic said Controller according to the 4:6 on Friday in a key game at the Nürnberg Ice Tigers: “We are not going to get into the habit of losing games.”

An amazing statement given the incredible downturn that puts the polar bears after the change of coach by Clement Jodoin to Richer. In almost all of the relevant statistics, the polar bears have become in the last weeks weaker. You will meet a bit more often to the goal than before, for this you cash in on almost twice as many goals as under Jodoin. The Powerplay has lost power and has become a number game, even dramatically worse. In Nuremberg, the Berlin two goals conceded with a man less on the ice, and a third immediately after the expiry of a time penalty.

The last third are often particularly

These statistics show: Under the Richer the polar bears have become systematically worse. And existing weaknesses could also eliminate the current head coach. As before, the Berlin-based, your game is about 60 minutes. In the case of the Ice Tigers, the team showed a bear-strong second third, letting the opponent hardly ever out of their own Zone and were rewarded with three goals. From a 1:2 you have made a deserved 4:2, only then in the last third, however, to completely break in.

periods of Weakness at the end of a game run like a red thread through the last few weeks. Only a final was won the section Richers Director. Otherwise, the balance sheet, with 6:22 goals in the last 20 minutes of an encounter catastrophic. Of course it can also be used with the many injuries to explain, especially in the final Phase of the shrinkage of an already decimated team, often the forces.
But during Jodoins term of office there were doubts about the fitness condition of the team. Players and officials believed, however, tend to have an attitude problem identified. In the meantime, the explanations simpler from falling: “If it’s bad, it’s just bad,” said Florian Busch after the defeat at the Ice Tigers and the associated slipping on table ten – a full two points ahead of eleventh place, which would allow even more Pre-Play-offs.

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Eisbären Berlin of the football season 2018/19 Seven defeats in a row – and now to Bremerhaven

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Before the game on Sunday in Bremerhaven (16.30) will cling to the polar bears at the positive things, even if this must be the statistics. Against the penguins they have this season and all three games win, the last on the Second day of Christmas. It was so far the only one of three with the coach Stéphane Richer.