Overview
- The club announced Rowe’s dismissal roughly 30 minutes after full time, with sport director Jan Barta informing him following the post-game press conference.
- An unusually terse statement offered no thanks to the coach and said the club is working urgently to appoint a new head coach.
- Club leaders Stefan Krämer and Andreas Stracke called a crisis meeting during the match that included Barta.
- The 0:8 defeat to Ingolstadt was among the heaviest in the team’s DEL history and triggered audible frustration from home supporters in the arena.
- Rowe, appointed in July last year, delivered a DEL-Wintergame win and a pre-playoffs berth in his first season, but results deteriorated this season with the team low in the table, and this move is reported as the DEL’s first coaching change of the campaign.