West derby, caps duel and a big game in Salzburg! – Hockey-News.info
The first West Derby of the season will take place on Sunday. The Dornbirn Bulldogs, currently third in the table and thus the best Austrian team in the ranking, receive the HC TIWAG Innsbruck – Die Haie.
In addition, the first “duel of the capitals” between the spusu Vienna Capitals and the iClinic Bratislava Capitals is on the program this season. The Austrian federal capitals are currently only thirteenth in the table and therefore under pressure against the seventh in the table from Slovakia.
In the other matches there will be a semifinal remake between the EC Red Bull Salzburg and the EC-KAC, the EC GRAND Immo VSV duels with the Moser Medical Graz99ers and league newcomer HK SZ Olimpija meets league returnee HC Orli Znojmo.
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Sun, October 17, 2021, 4.30 PM: EC Red Bull Salzburg – EC-KAC
REFEREES: FICHTNER, REZEK, Hribar, Nothegger.
For the first time this season there will be a new semifinal of the last season, between the EC Red Bull Salzburg and the EC-KAC. The “red jackets” prevailed in the “best-of-7” series with 4: 1. Later they even became champion. The current form of both teams is the same. The Red Bulls are in fourth place in the table with 16 points. The KAC is sixth in the table with 15 points. Both teams will meet for the 150th time on Sunday. In the H2H, the Klagenfurters lead with 79 to 70. The EC-KAC still has to do without Rok Tičar (sick) and Dennis Sticha (injured) in the Volksgarten. Steven Strong, who suffered an injury in the home game against Bratislava, was also unable to train on Saturday, but a return to the lineup on Sunday is likely. On the Red Bulls side, Mario Huber returns to the squad. He became the father of a healthy boy on Friday afternoon. Otherwise the team remains unchanged, the convalescents JP Lamoureux, Ty Loney, Lukas Schreier, Thomas Raffl, Dominique Heinrich, Alexander Pallestrang (was released from quarantine yesterday and wants to start training again soon), Ali Wukovits, Peter Hochkofler and Tim Armor.
Sun, October 17, 2021, 5.30 p.m .: EC GRAND Immo VSV – Moser Medical Graz99ers
Referees: LAZZERI, SMETANA, Gatol, Pardatscher. | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <
The EC GRAND Immo VSV meets the Moser Medical Graz99ers on Sunday. It comes to a duel between the tenth and the twelfth of the table. The VSV had the upper hand on Friday 5-2 in Znojmo and celebrated their second victory in a row. The 99ers only admit defeat to Salzburg after the shootout. It was already the third defeat in the suite for the Styrians. Last season the guests from Graz got the upper hand in four of six direct duels. Away from home, the 99ers haven’t scored a single point this season, with a goal difference of 6:17.
Sun, October 17, 2021, 5:30 p.m .: Dornbirn Bulldogs – HC TIWAG Innsbruck – Die Haie
Referee: Nikolic K., Schauer, Martin, Sparer. | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <
In the first western derby of the season, the Dornbirn Bulldogs receive HC TIWAG Innsbruck – Die Haie. The Bulldogs are currently stronger third in the table and therefore the best Austrian team in the ranking. They were all able to win the three games after the last regular time. Only on Friday did they leave last year’s finalist Bozen no chance in a 5-2 away win. Before that, they were 3-1 victorious against leaders Fehérvár. Innsbruck has four points less and is eighth in the table. The Tyroleans have been victorious in three of the last five games. On Friday, however, they were clearly defeated by Fehérvár 1: 4. In three of the last four duels in the Dornbirn exhibition stadium, the guests from Innsbruck prevailed.
Sun, October 17, 2021, 5:30 p.m .: spusu Vienna Capitals – iClinic Bratislava Capitals
Referees: GROZNIK, PIRAGIC, Durmis, Vaczi.
The spusu Vienna Capitals will play the second home game of this weekend on Sunday. The iClinic Bratislava Capitals welcomes you in the “Duel of the Capitals”. Both teams were successful on Friday. The Austrian capital city beat Pustertal with 4: 3 OT. It was the first victory of the Viennese after three defeats in a row. In tabular terms, this currently only means thirteenth place for the semi-finalists from last season. Bratislava rang defending champion Klagenfurt 3: 2-SO and celebrated the second victory in a row. In the table, the Slovaks are currently in seventh place. Last season, the Vienna Capitals had the upper hand in all four direct duels.
Sun, October 17, 2021, 6 p.m .: HK SZ Olimpija – HC Orli Znojmo
Referees: STERNAT, ZRNIC, Racicot, Zgonc. | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <
League newcomer HK SZ Olimpija and league returnee HC Orli Znojmo conclude on Sunday. Both teams meet for the first time. Ljubljana started the season very well. After the eighth game day, the Slovenes were even at the top of the table. Due to the overtime defeat in Linz on Friday, they slipped back to second place. Znojmo lost Villach on Friday and is now fifth in the table. It was their first defeat after two wins in a row. So far, however, the Czechs have only been able to win one of their four games abroad. Ljubljana scored points in all four home games and won three of them.
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