Overview
- Köln won 3–1 in Augsburg, with goals from Maximilian Kammerer, Patrick Russell and Tanner Kero after Christian Hanke opened the scoring.
- Officials missed an offside before Köln’s equalizer, and a video review later confirmed Russell’s power-play goal after Madison Bowey had pushed the puck under Michael Garteig’s pads.
- The result extended Köln’s winning run to 12 games and lifted them to 89 points, which with 13 games left leaves them beyond reach of falling outside the top ten.
- Augsburg recorded a 6,179 sellout for the 15th time this season at the Curt-Frenzel-Stadion, a DEL-era high for the venue.
- EHC Red Bull München shut out Iserlohn 6–0 to move into third place, powered by Jeremy McKenna’s first hat-trick for the club and an Adam Brooks goal as Hendrik Hane faced heavy traffic.