2006-07 DEL season

The 2006-07 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 13th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (German Ice Hockey League). The league was played with 14 clubs in the 2006-07 season, the same number as the previous season. However, in place of the Kassel Huskies, who were relegated the previous season, the Straubing Tigers took part in the competition, having won the 2nd Bundesliga in 2005-06. The modus had slightly changed from the previous season. Each club played the other four times, resulting in 52 regular season games per club. The top six clubs at the end of the regular season are qualified for the first round of the play-offs. The clubs seven to ten play a preliminary round to determined the last two places for the first round. For the teams placed eleven to fourteen, the season had ended. 
No club was relegated from the DEL this season and the Adler Mannheim (Mannheim Eagles) won it's 5th DEL Championship.
==Regular Season==
Position	Name 	P 	Won	OTW	PW	OTL	PL	Lost	GF 	GA 	Points
1 	Adler Mannheim 	52	29 	4 	2 	5 	3 	9 	184	147	107
2 	DEG Metro Stars 	52	28 	4 	1 	2 	2 	15 	163	127	98
3 	Sinupret Ice Tigers 	52	26 	4 	4 	1 	0 	17 	181	136	95
4 	Kölner Haie 	52	28 	1 	1 	2 	4 	16 	180	146	94
5 	ERC Ingolstadt 	52	28 	1 	1 	2 	4 	16 	180	146	94
6 	Hannover Scorpions 	52	23 	2 	1 	4 	5 	17 	162	157	84
7 	Hamburg Freezers 	52	20 	6 	4 	1 	2 	19 	169	153	83
8 	Frankfurt Lions 	52	24 	3 	1 	1 	2 	21 	171	171	83
9 	Eisbären Berlin (C) 	52	22 	1 	1 	3 	4 	21 	171	157	77
10 	Krefeld Pinguine 	52	18 	2 	4 	2 	3 	23 	170	173	71
11 	Iserlohn Roosters 	52	18 	2 	4 	1 	3 	24 	148	163	70
12 	Straubing Tigers (N)	52	12 	4 	4 	3 	1 	28 	135	189	56
13 	Augsburger Panther 	52	11 	2 	4 	2 	1 	32 	148	205	48
14 	EV Duisburg 	52	8 	1 	2 	4 	1 	36 	118	218	35
* Abbreviations: P = Games played, OTW = Overtime win, PW = Win after penalty shootout, OTL = Overtime loss, PL = Loss after penalty shoutout, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against, (C) = Defending champion, (N) = New club
* Source:
===Play-offs===
The four rounds of the 2006-07 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
Like the regular season, in the play-offs games will be decided by penalty shoot-outs (P) after a five minute 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).
====Preliminary round====
Team 	Team 	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3
Hamburg Freezers	Krefeld Pinguine	5-3 	5-3 	—
Frankfurt Lions 	Eisbären Berlin 	3-4 	2-1 	6-0
====First round====
Team 	Team 	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7
Adler Mannheim 	Frankfurt Lions 	4-3 OT	6-2 	2-1 	2-4 	3-2 	— 	—
DEG Metro Stars 	Hamburg Freezers 	3-2 	4-0 	5-4 OT	1-3 	6-1 	— 	—
Sinupret Ice Tigers	Hannover Scorpions	3-5 	2-3 	3-0 	3-2 	3-2 OT	3-2 OT	—
ERC Ingolstadt 	Kölner Haie 	1-5 	1-4 	6-2 	0-1 OT	6-4 	1-5 	—
====Semi finals====
Team 	Team 	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Adler Mannheim 	Kölner Haie 	7-2 	6-4 	2-0 	— 	—
DEG Metro Stars	Sinupret Ice Tigers	2-3 	3-4 P 	5-4 OT	0-1 	—
====Finals====
Team 	Team 	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5
Adler Mannheim	Sinupret Ice Tigers	3-2 OT	6-2 	5-2 	— 	—
* The Adler Mannheim are the 2006-07 champions of the DEL.
===Play-off tree===
===Top scorers===
The five highest placed scores in the regular season and play-offs are:
====Regular season====
Player 	Club 	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
David McLlwain 	Kölner Haie 	52 	21 	41 	62
François Fortier 	Hamburg Freezers	52 	28 	31 	59
Brad Smyth 	Hamburg Freezers	52 	23 	36 	59
François Méthot 	Adler Mannheim 	52 	19 	38 	57
Herberts Vasiljevs	Krefeld Pinguine	51 	30 	24 	57
====Play-offs====
Player 	Club 	Games	Goals	Assists	Points
Colin Forbes 	Adler Mannheim 	11 	4 	10 	14
Jame Pollock 	Sinupret Ice Tigers	13 	5 	9 	14
David McLlwain	Kölner Haie 	9 	4 	10 	14
Jason Jaspers 	Adler Mannheim 	11 	6 	7 	13
Brian Swanson 	Sinupret Ice Tigers	13 	4 	7 	11
==Team Photos==
06-07EisBer.jpg|Eisbären Berlin
06-07DEG.jpg|DEG Metro Stars
06-07FraLio.jpg|Frankfurt Lions
06-07ERCIng.jpg|ERC Ingolstadt
06-07HamFre.jpg|Hamburg Freezers
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