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“Can’t take it back” – phantom goal in the DEL
Status: 22.12.2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes
JC Lipon scored the phantom goal against Schwenningen
Source: picture alliance/Eibner press photo/Heike Feiner
A strange incident occurs in the German Ice Hockey League. Striker JC Lipon scores a goal for the Straubing Tigers. Only in slow motion does it become clear that this shouldn’t have counted. But by then it’s already too late.
A phantom goal in the German Ice Hockey League caused excitement on Thursday evening and helped the Straubing Tigers on their way to a 6-3 win against the Schwenninger Wild Wings. With the score 2-1, the puck slipped under the goal frame after a shot by JC Lipon, which had been lifted at that moment by goalkeeper Joacim Eriksson’s skate. The referees counted the goal to make it 3-1.
“I had the feeling that that might have happened,” said the 30-year-old Canadian Lipon during the third break on MagentaTV. In fact, however, the matter was nowhere near as clear as the famous cases in the Bundesliga involving Thomas Helmer and Stefan Kießling.
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Only in super slow motion could it be seen how the disc slid into the goal a few centimeters from the right goal post. Since no one noticed this and there were no protests, no video evidence was used, which also exists in ice hockey. “We just tried to get back together as quickly as possible in this game,” said Lipon: “Now they can’t take it back.” He scored a total of three times in the game.
“We have to accept it like that”
“I think that happens a few times. Nobody is perfect, we had to look at it two or three times,” said Straubing coach Tom Pokel, whose team is in third place in the table. Schwenningen is eighth.
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“We have to accept it like that, it happens from time to time in ice hockey and sometimes you make a mistake,” said Schwenningen’s Sebastian Uvira after the fifth defeat from the last six games: “We slept for the first 20 minutes, we can’t do that happen.”
The DEL table
1. Eisbären Berlin 107:72 58 2. Pinguins Bremerhaven 91:62 58 3. Straubing Tigers 87:63 54 4. Grizzlys Wolfsburg 86:80 52 5. Kölner Haie 93:84 50 6. EHC Red Bull Munich 82:70 49 7. ERC Ingolstadt 79:73 46 8. Schwenninger Wild Wings 90:88 45 9. Adler Mannheim 76:83 43 10. Löwen Frankfurt 91:93 39 11. Nuremberg Ice Tigers 80:110 32 12. Düsseldorfer EG 66:80 31 13. Augsburger Panthers 85:98 29 14. Iserlohn Roosters 61:118 23
