Overview
- DEL: Dresdner Eislöwen beat Augsburger Panther 3:1 in Dresden, including a power-play opener and Rourke Chartier’s late empty-netter, with roughly 800 traveling AEV fans in attendance.
- Despite the win, Dresden remain the DEL’s bottom club with a sizable gap to safety as Augsburg’s poor December run continues.
- BBL: EWE Baskets Oldenburg routed Veolia Towers Hamburg 94:69, riding superior three-point shooting and 20 points from Nico Tischler to drop Hamburg back into a relegation spot.
- HBL: VfL Gummersbach defeated HSV Hamburg 33:27 as Miro Schluroff scored eight and goalkeeper Dominik Kuzmanovic made 15 saves, marking HSV’s sixth straight away loss.
- The day’s outcomes underscore volatile form, strong crowds and injury absences heading into the EM break, shifting momentum for teams near the bottom.