2007–08 DEL season

The 2007–08 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 14th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL; ). 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 () 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. 	Sinupret Ice Tigers 	56	33	1 	3 	3 	5 	11	206:144	115
2. 	Eisbären Berlin 	56	33	2 	3 	3 	1 	14	231:165	113
3. 	Kölner Haie 	56	28	6 	3 	4 	3 	12	192:146	109
4. 	Frankfurt Lions 	56	24	5 	3 	4 	5 	15	188:172	97
5. 	Iserlohn Roosters 	56	25	4 	4 	4 	1 	18	208:196	96
6. 	Adler Mannheim 	56	24	3 	5 	2 	2 	20	180:174	92
7. 	Hamburg Freezers 	56	23	1 	4 	1 	7 	20	194:171	87
8. 	Hannover Scorpions 	56	20	4 	3 	3 	9 	17	171:171	86
9. 	DEG Metro Stars 	56	23	2 	3 	3 	3 	22	169:173	85
10.	ERC Ingolstadt 	56	19	7 	4 	3 	1 	22	180:190	83
11.	Krefeld Pinguine 	56	22	2 	1 	3 	5 	23	191:193	80
12.	Augsburger Panther 	56	16	3 	4 	3 	2 	28	158:187	67
13.	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	56	14	2 	3 	2 	1 	34	152:202	55
14.	Straubing Tigers 	56	12	0 	4 	4 	2 	34	132:197	50
15.	EV Duisburg 	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 	–	ERC Ingolstadt 	2:1 	3:5	5:4 OT	4:3 	[1:3]
Hannover Scorpions	–	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===
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
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