2006–07 DEL season
The 2006–07 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 13th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL; English: 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 format 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 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 fourteen, the season ended.
No club was relegated from the DEL this season and the Adler Mannheim (English: Eagles Mannheim) won its 5th DEL Championship.
Regular season
- 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:"DEL 2006-07". Official DEL website. Retrieved 2008-04-11.
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
| First round
| | | Semi final
| | | Final
| |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| | |
| 1
| Adler Mannheim
| 4
| |
|
| 8
| Frankfurt Lions
| 1
| |
| | 1
| Adler Mannheim
| 3
| |
|
|
| | 5
| Kölner Haie
| 0
| |
| 4
| ERC Ingolstadt
| 4
| |
| |
| 5
| Kölner Haie
| 1
| |
| | 1
| Adler Mannheim
| 3
| |
|
|
| | 3
| Sinupret Ice Tigers
| 0
| |
| 2
| DEG Metro Stars
| 4
| | |
| |
| 7
| Hamburg Freezers
| 2
| |
| | 2
| DEG Metro Stars
| 1
| |
|
|
| | 3
| Sinupret Ice Tigers
| 3
| |
| 3
| Sinupret Ice Tigers
| 2
| |
| |
| 6
| Hannover Scorpions
| 4
| |
|
|
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
Brian Swanson