ICE champion EC Red Bull Salzburg clarifies important personal details and extends with Thomas Raffl and Atte Tolvanen
League champion Red Bull Salzburg has set the first personnel course for the coming season two days after the last final game of the ICE Hockey League. As the club announced in a broadcast on Wednesday, captain Thomas Raffl, Atte Tolvanen, Lukas Schreier and Tim Harnisch Salzburg will remain.
The coaching team with head coach Matt McIlvane, assistant coaches Daniel Petersson and Ben Cooper and goalie coach Markus Kerschbaumer will also continue their work.
Dominique Heinrich, Philipp Wimmer, Florian Baltram, Mario Huber, Paul Huber, Ty Loney, Oskar Maier, Benjamin Nissner, Aljaž Predan, Peter Schneider, Lucas Thaler, Ali Wukovits and Luca Auer have an existing contract with the Austrian champions. This means that there are currently 17 players in the “Red Bulls” squad.
Lebler returns to Linz
You have to part with Florian Bugl, Kilian Zündel, Jakub Borzecki and Danjo Leonhardt, among others, who want to devote themselves to new tasks in the future. Layne Viveiros, who has been struggling with injury problems throughout the season, will also leave the Red Bulls. Brian Lebler, who moved to Salzburg from Black Wings Linz for the play-offs, will return to Linz and fulfill his contract there. Talks are still ongoing with all other players, it said.