In the 1994-95 DEL season – the first ever – coach Bernie Johnston was able to keep most of last year's squad and strengthened it with signing NHL-star Wallace Schreiber. Furthermore, benefited the team from the 1994–95 NHL lockout more than most other DEL franchises, with Pavel Bure, Scott Young and Uwe Krupp playing shortly for the Cannibals. Bure's only game for Landshut was legendary, scoring three times against the Eisbären Berlin. Ranked second after the preliminaries, the Cannibals knocked out the Lausitzer Füchse in the round of sixteen, before defeating both Kassel Huskies and Krefeld Pinguine. In the finals they were only beaten by the Kölner Haie. Wallace Schreiber and Mike Bullard were top-scorers of the league with 38 and 39 goals resp. The following season the Cannibals had landed José Charbonneau (top-scorer with 42 goals), while Marco Sturm entered professional level and scored 12 times. In the 1995-96 playoff season they defeated the Starbulls Rosenheim in the first round and swept the Adler Mannheim, setting up another showdown with the Kölner Haie, which was lost. In the 1996-97 playoffs they played Köln for the third time in a row, this time knocking them out in the quarterfinal round, before losing to Mannheim in the semifinals. Best scorer was Gino Cavallini with 28 goals. The team of following season's top-scorer, Dave McLlwain, swept “favorite opponent” Kölner Haie, but lost to the Eisbären Berlin in the semifinals.