Overview
- Essen-West opened their first league season with a 6:0 road win as six different players scored: Maxim Kryvorutskyy, Grayden Gottschalk, Jakub Bitomsky, Ricardas Birzins, Enrico Saccomani and Erik Keresztury.
- The game drew 655 spectators with substantial support from visiting fans, filling the Dinslaken arena and delaying the opening faceoff by roughly ten minutes due to queues.
- Dinslaken coach Max Piotrowski said his team showed too much respect and made poor decisions, contrasting the heavy loss with their narrow defeat on Friday.
- Kobras newcomer Niclas Kollar received a late game misconduct for a hard cross-check and is expected to miss the next match.
- Essen-West’s roster was rapidly built after the Moskitos collapse, highlighted by the Friday signing of 21-year-old Maksim Anton, as coach Mikhail Nemirovsky frames the season around preparing for the playoffs.