Dominique Heinrich before the anniversary – Red Bull Salzburg before the home game against HCB Südtirol
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EC Red Bull Salzburg is playing Sunday’s game in the win2day ICE Hockey League against HCB Südtirol Alperia (4:30 p.m., Family Day, live stream) and thus has the next top game straight away, after Salzburg returned to winning ways at the leaders in Innsbruck with a 5-2 win yesterday and climbed to third place in the table. The Red Bulls are now aiming for their first win of the season against Bozen, having lost out in the first two games.
That felt good. After the last five cross-league defeats, the Red Bulls really shot themselves free yesterday with the win in Innsbruck, especially since the offensive in the last few games could not deliver as usual. The four returnees Peter Hochkofler, Lucas Thaler, Mario Huber and Florian Baltram certainly played a major role in this – tomorrow, in addition to Ty Loney, Troy Bourke, Tyler Lewington and Ali Wukovits, who are still convalescent, Paul Huber will also be out with an upper body injury – who die Forward movement and obviously strongly forced the goal threat.
On his return to Innsbruck, Peter Hochkofler made his 100th league scorer point (38 goals, 62 assists) with two assists. The 28-year-old forward was the first Red Bulls player to set this mark, made his way from the Red Bull Ice Hockey Academy to the Salzburg professional team and played all games for the Salzburg Ice Hockey Club.
He and his teammates now want to repeat this performance against Bozen tomorrow and win against the South Tyroleans for the first time this season. They are second in the table with 5 points ahead of the third-placed Red Bulls. Recently, the games against Bozen have developed into emotionally very charged duels, so that tomorrow in the Salzburg Eisarena another exciting encounter between two strong teams can be expected.
Benjamin Nissner knows that too: “Bozen and we always have exciting duels. It will certainly be hot again tomorrow. We have to get our game back for more than 60 minutes and then it will be fine.”
Defender Lukas Schreier will take the euphoria from yesterday’s win in Innsbruck with him: “We have a few players back in the lineup and I think the spell is broken now. But it won’t be any easier than yesterday against Innsbruck. We’re expecting a very physical game again, but I think we have a good chance of winning the first game against Bozen.”
Dominique Heinrich is also hoping for the same, because the 32-year-old defender is celebrating a very special anniversary tomorrow. The long-time player and assistant captain of the Red Bulls is playing his 768th league game for the Salzburg ice hockey club against Bolzano, drawing level with Matthias Trattnig as the previous record holder, who ended his career in Salzburg in 2019. Dominique Heinrich is playing his 14th professional season in Salzburg and has played all but 22 games for Örebro HK in the SHL (2016/17) for the Red Bulls.
win2day ICE Hockey League
EC Red Bull Salzburg – HCB Südtirol Alperia
So, 12/04/2022; Salzburg Ice Arena, 4:30 p.m
Media info Red Bull Salzburg
03.12.2022