CHL: Salzburg meets Rögle and Marco Kasper in the round of 16 – winter sports – ice hockey
Austria’s champions Red Bull Salzburg have been drawn against a difficult and attractive opponent for the round of 16 of the Champions Hockey League (CHL).
The Red Bulls meet defending champions Rögle BK, in which the great Carinthian talent Marco Kasper plays. “Great draw,” said Captain Thomas Raffl happily. The game will be played on the 15th/16th. and 22./23. November.
“With the current defending champion, a cool opponent awaits us, in which Marco Kasper is also a current Austrian NHL first-round draft. I even played with the current coach of the Swedes, Cam Abbott, back then in Sweden. I’m happy I’m really looking forward to the games and I’m sure that we will offer strong ice hockey,” explains Raffl.
His team secured a point on Wednesday with a 2:3 penalty shoot-out against Freiburg-Götter and thus secured second place behind the Swiss.
Rögle finished in first place in Group C with six wins in six games, including against ICE representative Fehevar. 18-year-old Kasper contributed three goals and four assists. In the Swedish SHL league, the semi-finalists of the past season ranked with seven points from seven games, but only in the penultimate place.
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