Release from 09.10.2024

3 shutouts to start the season: Sam Harvey sets new league record

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Sam Harvey of HCB Südtirol Alperia became the first goalie in the win2day ICE Hockey League to keep a clean sheet in three of his first five games of the season. He is also chasing Sebastian Dahm's record, who recorded a total of ten shutouts in the 2020-21 campaign. Jean-Philippe Lamoureux holds the record for games without conceding a goal since the league was newly founded.

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With five wins from its first six games, HCB Südtirol Alperia is currently in second place in the win2day ICE Hockey League. In his five appearances, Bolzano goalie Sam Harvey has kept three clean sheets. The 26-year-old Canadian celebrated his first shutout in the season opener (5-0 against Linz), followed by two more in the away games in Vienna and Szekesfehérvár. So far, 13 netminders have recorded two clean sheets in their first five appearances of the season, and no goalkeeper in league history has managed three shutouts before Harvey.

Goalkeepers with two shutouts in their first five games:
David Kickert (RBS, 2022/2023), Bernhard Starkbaum (VIC, 2021/2022), Leland Irving (HCB, 2020/2021), Andreas Bernard (HCB, 2020/2021), David Madlener (KAC, 2019/2020), Robin Rahm (G99, 2018/2019), Daniel Kornakker (AVS, 2018/2019), Rasmus Rinne (DEC, 2017/2018), Niko Hovinen (RBS, 2014/2015), Filip Landsman (ZNO, 2011/2012), Reinhard Divis (RBS, 2010/2011), Gert Prohaska (VSV, 2005/2006), Pavel Nestak (BWL, 2004/2005)



In the 2022-23 season - his first in the HCB jersey - Harvey recorded a total of five shutouts. With his start to this season, he has his sights set on further league records. The most shutouts in a season so far came from Sebastian Dahm, who kept a total of ten clean sheets in 2020-21 - when the KAC also became champions.

Most shutouts in a season:

  • 10 - Sebastian Dahm (KAC, 2020/2021)
  • 9 - Lars Haugen (KAC, 2018/2019)
  • 8 - Sebastian Dahm (KAC, 2021/2022)
  • 8 - Leland Irving (HCB, 2019/2020)

JP Lamoureux holds the record
Jean-Philippe Lamoureux recorded the most shutouts since the league was newly founded. The VSV goalie, who also played for Ljubljana, Vienna and Salzburg, kept 49 clean sheets. KAC goalie Sebastian Dahm - who also spent two seasons in Graz - has 40 shutouts. Mike Ouzas ranks third in the all-time list (see Instagram photo gallery of the top 3). He is followed by Alex Westlund (21), Robert Kristan (20), David Madlener (20), Rene Swette (19), Luka Gracnar (18) and Leland Irving (16).