Playoffs DEL: EHC Red Bull München voices and stats after game 5

Saturday, 25. March 2023 | Playoffs DEL: EHC Red Bull München voices and stats after game 5

Why Game 5 was the "best in the series" for Don JacksonVoices & Stats for the fifth quarterfinal match// DEL - CURRENTStrong game and series turned around! The Red Bulls secured the match point in the playoff quarterfinals with a 4-0 win over Bremerhaven in Game 5. But the last victory is known to be the hardest. The voices & stats.

Don Jackson: "It was our best game so far in this series. We played great defense. Penalty killing, power play - in every aspect of our game we were at the top level. I'm proud of the guys and how they came back in this series. We still need a win, though."

Ben Street: "We set the tone right from the first change. We were physical and effective in forechecking. That's the key to success in this series."

Maximilian Kastner: "We played more compact, were much more aggressive in the forecheck and tried to give them even less space. Over the whole series, we increased our chance conversion."

Pressekonferenz: Red Bull München – Pinguins Bremerhaven (24.03.2023)

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Thomas Popiesch (Coach, Pinguins Bremerhaven): "We tried to be defensively compact and to set pinpricks. We had one or two chances, but in our phase we have to play them more energetically and straightforwardly. In the second period we didn't stand well and made structural mistakes, which Munich punished ice-cold."

Alexander Sulzer (Co-coach, Pinguins Bremerhaven): "From the beginning to the end we were not really in the game. We made a lot of little mistakes and didn't make the decisions fast enough. So of course it's hard to win against a team like Munich."

Highlights: Red Bull München – Pinguins Bremerhaven (24.03.2023)

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Statistics

31:15 shots on goal are a sign of Munich's superiority in Game 5. For the fourth time in this quarterfinal series and the third game in a row, the Red Bulls allowed 19 or fewer shots on goal by the Pinguins.

The Red Bulls used their first of four overtime situations to take a 1-0 lead. The overage rate (31.3 percent) over the entire series is the best of any team in the quarterfinals.

The shorthanded units went scoreless for the second straight game and survived the past nine Pinguins power plays unscathed. The 89.5 percent shorthanded rate is tops among quarterfinal teams.

Austin Ortega contributed two assists in the 4-0 win, raising his point total to seven goal assists (three goals) in five games. That makes him the top scorer in all quarterfinal series in these DEL playoffs.

Mathias Niederberger stopped 15 shots on goal by the Pinguins in his first shutout in the 2023 playoffs. Only Straubing's Hunter Miska (93.2 percent) topped his catch rate (92.4 percent) in the quarterfinals, and only 1.43 goals against per game is the best value.

Jonathon Blum was on the ice the longest of all Munich players with "only" 18:40 minutes, Filip Varejcka the shortest with 11:22 minutes. At Bremerhaven the gap was wider: four played longer than Blum, three less than Varejcka.

Going the last mile on Sunday

The Red Bulls have turned the quarterfinal series around after the two losses in the opener and now travel to Bremerhaven. If our boys also win Game 6 on Sunday (3:15 p.m. | LIVE in our blog and on MagentaSport), they will be in the semifinals of the playoffs.