The 2006–07 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 13th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL; 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 (Eagles Mannheim) won its 5th DEL Championship.
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. Archived from the original on 2007-10-20. 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:
David McLlwain
Herberts Vasiļjevs
Brian Swanson