The following years the team were runners-up for two times (both 1973-74 and 1975–76). For years, both Alois Schloder and Erich Kühnhackl belonged to the top-five scorers in the Bundesliga. Important task for every coach was the integration of the most talented junior players into the professional team. In a legendary game in the 1974–75 season the team faced a 0–10 loss against Krefeld, because there were only six players available (due to a flu epidemic). In the following season two young players joined the team, which would be important in the years to come: Bernhard Englbrecht and Gerd Truntschka. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck three EVL-players joined the German national team (Alois Schloder, Erich Kühnhackl and Klaus Auhuber), which won bronze behind the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia – the greatest victory in German hockey history. After middling results in the 1977–78 season the management signed František Pospíšil. Nevertheless, the team had to play relegation and the attendance dropped from estimated 4,500 to 1,700. Signing Jiří Kochta for the 1979–80 season brought luck and the fourth place.