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EC Red Bull Salzburg will start the regular season of the win2day ICE Hockey League next weekend with the away games against Hydro Fehérvár AV19 (Friday, 7:15 p.m., Live.ice.hockey) and EC IDM Heat Pumps VSV (Sunday, 5:30 p.m., Live.Ice Hockey) continues. After the last two defeats in the domestic league, Salzburg want to write again and look forward to the first games with new striker Nicolai Meyer.
When the Red Bulls play last season’s finalists in Székesfehérvár tomorrow, it will be their first game in exactly two weeks in the win2day ICE Hockey League. However, the Red Bulls are not out of practice, since they have played the last two group games of the Champions Hockey League and, despite two extremely narrow defeats against Fribourg-Gottéron, have qualified for the round of 16 of the European premier class.
The last two games against Klagenfurt and Bozen, in which the Red Bulls were left behind, showed that there IS not much in the simple league. The Salzburgers want to score points again as quickly as possible and fight their way back to the top. The Austrian champions are in fourth place in the table, but have played two to three games fewer than the other teams.
The Red Bulls already won against Hungary once this season (4-1) and they now want to build on that. When the expected return to the place of triumph – on April 11, the Red Bulls secured the championship title there – we have to be careful, even if the runner-up recently showed a mixed performance. Salzburg’s Mario Huber: “Since we were opponents in the final, this is a very special game. The hall there is sure to be full and we will see a good Hungarian team that WILL go into the encounter aggressively and hard. But we will try exactly the same. We will put them under pressure and want to take our chances offensively.”
Nicolai Meyer, who was only introduced in Salzburg on Monday and is now playing his first games with the Red Bulls, also wants to seize the opportunity. “There is always a lot to do when you first come to a club. But so far everything is going well, I’m fine,” said the 29-year-old striker after today’s final training session. Expectations before the first league appearances with the Red Bulls: “It’s exciting to play in such a good team and organization. But it will still take a little time to fully internalize the game system. I’m looking forward to playing hockey again. I just want to play my game and play the role that the coach gave me.”
Salzburg’s coach Matt McIlvane still has worry lines on his forehead in terms of formation. In addition to the convalescent cases Lukas Schreier, Ty Loney, Thomas Raffl, Dominique Heinrich, Tim Harnisch, Aljaž Predan and Paul Stapelfeldt, striker Troy Bourke will again be absent. The 28-year-old Canadian suffered an upper-body injury in a training accident today. He is currently in the hospital, but a more precise diagnosis is not yet available.
The team is already on its way to Hungary and will travel directly from there to Villach for the next away game on Saturday.
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