2019–20 DEL2 season explained

2019–20 DEL2 season
League:	DEL2
Sport:	Ice Hockey
Color:	a01720
Color Text:	white
Duration:	13 September 2019 – 10 March 2020
No Of Teams:	14
No Of Games:	364 (52 per team)
Tv:	Sprade TV eoTV
Season:	Regular season
Season Champs:	Löwen Frankfurt
Top Scorer:	Dylan Wruck (Falken)
Relegate:	No relegation (relegation play-offs cancelled)
Relegate To:	Oberliga
Finals:	Playoffs
Finals Champ:	No champion (play-offs cancelled)
Seasonslist:	DEL2 seasons
Seasonslistnames:	DEL2
Prevseason Link:	2018–19 DEL2 season
Prevseason Year:	2018–19
Nextseason Link:	2020–21 DEL2 season
Nextseason Year:	2020–21

The 2019–20 DEL2 season was the seventh season since the founding of the DEL2, the second tier of German ice hockey, set below the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. The season began on 13 September 2019 and prematurely ended on 10 March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). Löwen Frankfurt was named winner of the regular season, but no season champion was declared with the championship play-offs called off. In addition, the relegation play-offs were also cancelled so the league decided there would be no relegation for the season.^[1]

Modus

Fourteen teams competed in the 2019–20 DEL2 regular season. EV Landshut was promoted from Germany's third division, Oberliga. Each team played each other twice in the regular season, home and away, for a total of 52 matches each. The top six teams directly qualified for the championship playoffs, played in a best of seven format. Teams placed seven to ten advanced to the championship playoff qualifiers, which followed a best of three format. The bottom four teams enter the relegation playoffs. The two losing teams from round 1 face off in the relegation final with the losing team being relegated to Oberliga.^[2]

The DEL2 champion does not automatically get promoted to DEL. In September 2015, the DEL and DEL2 agreed to reintroduce promotion and relegation between the two leagues from the 2017–18 season onwards. The DEL2 champion would then have the opportunity to be promoted, provided it fulfilled the licensing requirements of the DEL, while the last-placed DEL club would be relegated.^[3] In 2018, the two leagues signed a new agreement to reintroduce an automatic promotion and relegation system to start in 2020–21.^[4]

Regular season

Results

The cross table represents the results of all matches of the regular season for 2019/20.^[5] The home team is listed in the middle column, the visiting team in the top row.

First round														Team	Second round
FRA	SCB	RVT	ESV	LFX	ECN	ECK	HNF	DRE	EPC	BTT	ECT	FRB	EVL	FRA	SCB	RVT	ESV	LFX	ECN	ECK	HNF	DRE	EPC	BTT	ECT	FRB	EVL
	6:1	4:3^O	3:2	4:3^S	2:5	6:3	5:3	3:2	1:4	4:3^S	2:3^O	3:1	8:0	FRA		5:0	3:1	5:0	4:3^O	4:1	4:3	3:4^O	6:5^S	7:1	3:1	4:1	5:4^O	5:2
3:0		4:1	3:2	1:4	0:2	4:2	4:7	4:1	4:0	4:1	9:5	0:3	4:3^S	SCB	1:4		5:3	5:6	4:2	7:0	1:7	5:2	1:2	1:5	5:0	2:3^O	0:1	2:1
4:3^O	2:3^S		4:0	6:5^S	2:3	5:2	3:2	4:3	3:4^S	5:6^S	3:4^O	2:4	4:2	RVT	2:3^S	6:5^O		5:2	7:1	7:3	2:4	5:3	4:5	4:2	0:4	2:3	3:2^S	4:3^O
3:1	5:1	2:4		1:3	6:3	3:2	2:8	4:1	5:2	5:1	2:3	3:2	3:4^O	ESV	3:4	6:4	3:2		2:4	4:2	1:3	3:2	6:1	5:2	2:7	4:3^O	3:1	3:7
1:3	3:2	1:3	4:1		1:2	2:5	2:1	3:7	6:2	5:3	2:3^O	7:3	4:5^O	LFX	6:3	2:4	4:1	6:1		4:1	1:0	4:3^O	5:6	4:7	5:3	6:3	1:3	3:0
7:6^O	3:2^S	5:1	4:2	5:3		0:5	1:7	2:3^O	8:3	4:2	2:3^O	4:3	2:1	ECN	2:3^S	1:0^S	1:2^S	3:5	5:1		2:1	1:2	6:5^O	4:6	3:2^S	1:2^S	5:1	4:3^S
3:2	10:2	3:1	7:3	1:0	2:3		7:1	6:3	4:2	3:2	6:3	5:3	5:4	ECK	7:5	4:0	4:1	6:3	3:2^S	2:3^S		2:5	7:3	2:6	4:0	0:3	2:4	2:3^O
4:1	4:1	5:2	3:5	7:1	5:3	4:3		3:2	2:6	4:3	4:5	6:3	3:1	HNF	7:6^S	2:5	2:5	6:3	4:3	1:4	4:2		9:2	2:4	5:3	2:3^O	6:3	4:3^S
5:4^O	7:5	3:6	1:2^O	4:6	6:2	1:4	8:5		5:3	6:5	0:4	2:3	1:2^O	DRE	4:3	4:3^S	4:5^O	5:1	5:3	4:1	6:5^O	5:4		5:3	2:4	3:2^S	5:2	3:1
2:3^S	2:1^O	0:5	4:3^S	6:3	3:4	1:4	2:4	3:2		3:6	4:3	3:2^O	3:4^O	EPC	5:2	3:5	1:4	2:4	2:7	1:2^S	1:4	4:2	7:5		0:6	3:5	3:2^S	2:1
10:7	3:2^O	1:4	7:5	3:5	2:3	3:4^S	2:4	4:3^O	4:5		3:2^O	0:2	3:2	BTT	2:3^O	4:2	5:3	6:7^S	6:3	4:2	4:3^S	6:5^S	6:3	2:4		4:3^O	3:0	5:3
2:5	0:5	4:3^O	8:2	5:1	4:0	5:1	5:6^O	5:4	3:2^O	5:4		3:4	5:6^O	ECT	1:2	2:0	1:2^S	2:5	2:3^S	3:1	3:1	8:6	1:2	4:2	5:7		5:2	4:5^S
3:1	2:3	3:2	0:4	2:3^O	1:0	5:4^S	3:4^O	7:1	4:1	3:1	5:3		5:0	FRB	2:4	5:1	4:2	4:3	3:2	6:3	4:2	4:5^O	6:3	5:0	4:1	5:4		4:3^O
5:2	2:3	1:3	5:8	7:1	6:1	3:4	4:3	4:7	4:5^S	4:3	4:3	3:1		EVL	2:6	3:4	1:4	2:1	5:4^O	3:2^O	5:6^O	6:3	4:3^O	3:2^O	1:3	3:2	1:4

Legend: ^O Overtime; ^S Shootout
Notes:

Top scorers

These are the top-ten scorers in DEL2 for the 2019–20 season. (Table is created at the conclusion of the DEL2 regular season)

Team					+/−
	51	24	64	88	+9	12
	52	38	36	74	+5	28
	52	31	38	69	−1	28
	52	29	39	68	+4	36
	52	26	41	67	0	16
	52	23	44	67	−1	64
Dresdner Eislöwen	51	20	47	67	+6	91
	48	18	49	67	+1	10
	51	16	50	66	+10	24
	52	32	31	63	+20	12

Source:^[6]

Top goaltenders

These are the top-ten goaltenders in DEL2 for the 2019–20 season. (Table is created at the conclusion of the DEL2 regular season)

Team
	50	6	2992:30	127	2.55	1617	1490	92.15%
	43	2	2477:17	123	2.98	1538	1415	92.00%
	47	2	2841:35	134	2.83	1573	1439	91.48%
	39	4	2381:36	95	2.39	1115	1020	91.48%
	23	0	1362:15	66	2.91	704	638	90.63%
Löwen Frankfurt	20	2	1785:52	84	2.82	887	803	90.53%
	38	5	2095:26	105	3.01	1083	978	90.30%
	36	2	2012:12	89	2.65	852	763	89.55%
	28	1	1502:09	77	3.08	737	660	89.55%
Ravensburg Towerstars	22	0	1150:43	57	2.97	517	460	88.97%

Note: To qualify for this list, goaltenders need to have played a minimum of 20 matches
Source:^[7]

Playoffs

Due to the early cancellation of the season, the championship and relegation play-offs were called off without being played. DEL2 decided no team would be relegated and no team would be named champion.^[1]

Championship

The championship playoffs reference:^[8]

Note: All numbers represent series results, not a match score

External links

Notes and References

Web site: DEL2 Beendet Saison Vorzeitig . www.del-2.org . 14 March 2020 . German . DEL2 Ends Season Early.
Web site: Spielmodus Saison 2018/2019 . www.del-2.org . 2019-08-24 . German .
Web site: DEL: Rückkehr zu Auf- und Abstieg? Fahrplan steht!. 8 September 2015 . kicker.de . . 13 March 2016. German. DEL: Return of relegation and promotion? Schedule decided! .
Web site: Top German ice hockey leagues reach agreement to reintroduce promotion and relegation . Inside the Games . James . Diamond . 2018-07-30 . 2019-08-24 .
Web site: Spiele: kompletter pielplan . www.del-2.org . 22 March 2020 . German . Season: complete schedule .
Web site: Statistiken Top Scorer . www.del-2.org . 2019-09-21 . German . 2020-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200924055954/https://www.del-2.org/statistik/topscorer/117/ . dead .
Web site: Statistiken Top Goalies . www.del-2.org . 2019-09-21 . German . 2020-08-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200808212812/https://www.del-2.org/statistik/topgoalies/117/ . dead .
Web site: DEL2 Statistik Spielpläne - Archiv der DEL2 . www.del-2.org . 18 March 2020.