2007–08 DEL season explained

See also: 2007–08 German ice hockey league season.

The 2007–08 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 14th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL; English: German Ice Hockey League). Fifteen teams played after the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg received the license and were admitted to play in the DEL. Each club played the other four times, resulting in 56 regular-season games per club. The top six clubs at the end of the regular season qualified for the first round of the play-offs. The clubs seven to ten played a preliminary round to determine the last two places for the first round. For the teams placed eleven to fifteen, the season ended. No club was relegated from the DEL in this season.

The Eisbären Berlin (English: Berlin Polar Bears) won their third championship in four years.

Regular season

The final table operates under the following points system: Three points for a win, two for a win after overtime or penalties, one for a loss after overtime or penalties and no points for an outright loss.

	Team	GP	W	OTW	SOW	OTL	SOL	L	Goals	Points
1.		56	33	1	3	3	5	11	206:144	115
2.		56	33	2	3	3	1	14	231:165	113
3.		56	28	6	3	4	3	12	192:146	109
4.		56	24	5	3	4	5	15	188:172	97
5.		56	25	4	4	4	1	18	208:196	96
6.		56	24	3	5	2	2	20	180:174	92
7.		56	23	1	4	1	7	20	194:171	87
8.		56	20	4	3	3	9	17	171:171	86
9.		56	23	2	3	3	3	22	169:173	85
10.		56	19	7	4	3	1	22	180:190	83
11.		56	22	2	1	3	5	23	191:193	80
12.		56	16	3	4	3	2	28	158:187	67
13.		56	14	2	3	2	1	34	152:202	55
14.		56	12	0	4	4	2	34	132:197	50
15.		56	10	3	2	3	2	36	142:213	45

GP = Games Played, W = Wins, OTW = Overtime win, SOW = Shootout win, OTL = Overtime loss, SOL = Shootout loss, L = Loss
Color code: = Direct Playoff qualification, = Playoff qualification round, = No playoff

Player	Club	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
Robert Hock	Iserlohn Roosters	56	24	63	87
Steve Walker	Eisbären Berlin	53	27	58	85
Peter Sarno	Hamburg Freezers	56	26	48	74
Michael Wolf	Iserlohn Roosters	56	44	27	71
Ivan Čiernik	Kölner Haie	56	38	28	66

Playoffs

The four rounds of the 2007-08 play-offs were played under the following system:

• Preliminary round: Best-of-three
• First round: Best-of-seven
• Semi finals: Best-of-five
• Finals: Best-of-five

Unlike the regular season, in the play-offs games will not be decided by penalty shoot-outs but in overtime (OT) sudden-death. In all play-off rounds the higher placed team from the regular season has home advantage in the uneven numbered games (Game 1, 3, 5, 7) and the other team in the even numbered games (Game 2, 4, 6).

Qualifying round

Qualifications

			Series	1	2	3	RS
Hamburg Freezers	–		2:1	3:5	5:4 OT	4:3	[1:3]
	–	DEG Metro Stars	1:2	4:3	2:4	1:2 OT	[2:2]

RS = Regular season; OT = Overtime

Quarterfinals

Team	Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
Sinupret Ice Tigers	DEG Metro Stars	3-2	1-3	1-2	3-6	2-3	—	—
Eisbären Berlin	Hamburg Freezers	2-4	7-4	6-1	6-1	4-3 OT	—	—
Kölner Haie	Adler Mannheim	4-3	1-2	5-4 OT	4-3 OT	4-1	—	—
Frankfurt Lions	Iserlohn Roosters	4-3 OT	2-3 OT	3-4 OT	1-5	4-2	4-0	4-3

Semi finals

Team	Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Eisbären Berlin	DEG Metro Stars	4-1	3-4	4-3 OT	1-5	3-1
Kölner Haie	Frankfurt Lions	7-1	4-5 OT	2-1 OT	3-4	3-2

Finals

Team	Team	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Eisbären Berlin	Kölner Haie	3-2 OT	1-2	4-3	2-1 OT	—

Top scorers

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Player	Club	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
Nathan Robinson	Eisbären Berlin	13	4	11	15
Ivan Ciernik	Kölner Haie	14	11	2	13
Chris Taylor	Frankfurt Lions	12	5	8	13
Peter Sarno	Hamburg Freezers	8	4	9	13
Sven Felski	Eisbären Berlin	13	3	10	13
Jason Young	Frankfurt Lions	12	3	10	13