The Blue Devils Weiden are the new champions of the 2023/24 season DEB-Oberliga. The Blue Devils won 5-1 against the Hannover Scorpions in game six of the best-of-seven series and secured the title.
In an exciting and top-class final playoff series, the teams from Weiden and Hanover, the first in the main round of the South season and the first in the main round of the North season, dueled. As in the previous season, in the end it is one club Oberliga Süd managed to win the title. At that time, the team from Weiden also made it to the playoff final, but failed there with 1:3 (best-of-five series) against the eventual champions Starbulls Rosenheim. The last league championship Blue Devils Weiden It's been over 20 years since the last time the cup was won in the Upper Palatinate was in the 2002/03 season.
Tomas Rubes (Blue Devils Weiden) excellent.
A total of 14.848 spectators were there live in Hanover and Weiden and didn't want to miss the exciting final games of this year's league season. DEBGeneral Secretary Claus Gröbner traveled to Hanover to personally hand over the Oberliga championship trophy.
Voices about the game:
Marc Hindelang: “Congratulations to them Blue Devils Weiden, who were able to use the momentum in a high-class final series with a few twists and turns and surprisingly clear game outcomes. As always in recent years, the DEL2 can welcome a club with potential that has grown in the upper league. The triangle with the champions Weiden, Regensburg and Selb will certainly delight the spectators. On the other hand, the Scorpions are already the top favorites for the new league season.”
Commercial Manager DEB-Leagues Panagiotis Christakakis: “We can look back on an excellent playoff final that lost neither class nor excitement over the entire six games. Both teams met on equal terms and played in sold-out arenas Fans enthusiastic about high-class ice hockey sport. In a hard-fought game this evening, they... Blue Devils Weiden We finally secured the championship title this season and we would like to express our congratulations on this.”
Head coach Blue Devils Weiden Sebastian Buchwieser: “It was a great game from both teams today and they fought for every inch of ice. We had a bit of luck in the final third at 2-1, but by 3-1 at the latest we were on the road to victory. I have to pay my team an incredible compliment - they didn't let themselves be thrown off course after the setbacks we had, fought really well today and really deserved the championship title.
Results Oberliga playoff final
14.04.2024 | 18:30 p.m. | Blue Devils Weiden – Hannover Scorpions 3:1
16.04.2024 | 20:00 p.m. | Hanover Scorpions – Blue Devils Weiden 2:3
19.04.2024 | 20:00 p.m. | Blue Devils Weiden – Hannover Scorpions 2:8
21.04.2024 | 18:00 p.m. | Hanover Scorpions – Blue Devils Weiden 4:2
23.04.2024 | 20:00 p.m. | Blue Devils Weiden – Hannover Scorpions 5:1
26.04.2024 | 20:00 p.m. | Hanover Scorpions – Blue Devils Weiden 1:5
All schedules, results and live streams for the games can be found at: deb-online.live