Release from 20.11.2021

Already third duel this season between Salzburg and Graz

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The 20th matchday of the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League will be completed with four games on Sunday. There will be the third duel of the season between the EC Red Bull Salzburg and the Moser Medical Graz99ers. The EC-KAC is already looking for its third win this week. In addition, the HCB Südtirol Alperia wants to get back on winning ways after the clear derby defeat. In addition, the HC TIWAG Innsbruck - Die Haie and the EC GRAND Immo VSV are facing each other. As an Austria-wide lockdown comes into effect from Monday, Sunday's matches will be the last ones that can be played in front of fans in Austria for the time being.

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bet-at-home ICE Hockey League | 21.11.2021:
Sun, 21.11.2021, 16:30: EC Red Bull Salzburg - Moser Medical Graz99ers
Referees: BERNEKER, NIKOLIC K., Bedynek, Martin.
The EC Red Bull Salzburg and the Moser Medical Graz99ers face each other for the third time this season. Both duels in Graz were decided in the shootout. Once the Red Bulls prevailed, once the 99ers kept the upper hand. In Salzburg, Graz could not win any of the last three games. In the standings, it comes to a duel between fourth (RBS) and tenth (G99). Both teams celebrated a victory on Friday. While RBS won with 7:2 at league leader HK SZ Olimpija, the 99ers ended the six-game winning streak of the Vienna Capitals. Goaltender Niklas Lundstöm celebrated his second shutout in his ninth start for Graz. On the Salzburg side, JP Lamoureux, Peter Hochkofler, Danjo Leonhardt, Mario Huber, Nicolas Wieser and Aljaž Predan will continue to be absent. Paul Stapelfeldt will make his comeback on Saturday evening in the away game of the Red Bull Hockey Juniors in the Alps Hockey League against Zell am See. Thomas Raffl is questionable (sick).

Sun, 21.11.2021, 17:30: HC TIWAG Innsbruck – Die Haie - EC GRAND Immo VSV
Referees: PIRAGIC, ZRNIC, Hribar, Rigoni. | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<
The third in the table, HC TIWAG Innsbruck – Die Haie, will face the eighth in the table, EC GRAND Immo VSV on Sunday. Both teams were not in action on Friday. While the VSV was free from play, the game of the "Sharks" had to be abandoned at short notice, due to mediacl precautions. Before the International Break, both teams conceded a defeat. Innsbruck lost to Vienna with 2:3 and lost again after impressive seven wins in a row. Villach conceded a narrow 2:3 SO defeat in Bolzano. Before that, the "Sharks" and the "Eagles" faced each other for the first time this season. In Villach, Innsbruck celebrated a 3:2 OT victory.

Sun, 21.11.2021, 17:30: EC-KAC - Tesla Orli Znojmo
Referees: FICHTNER, GROZNIK, Nothegger, Seewald.
Already the third game in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League this week will be played on Sunday by Tesla Orli Znojmo. The Czechs are guest at the EC-KAC, which also already has two games in the legs. Both in the Champions Hockey League Round of 16 first leg against Leksands (SWE) and against Linz in the ICE, the reigning champion prevailed. After four home games in a row, Znojmo has to play away again for the first time. In the standings, it comes to the duel between the seventh (KAC) and ninth (ZNO). In the first direct duel this season, the "Eagles" clearly won with 6:0. Of the past ten games, the balance is even. Both teams have five wins each. In the game in Linz, the injury list of the EC-KAC extended further. In addition to Jakob Holzer, Kele Steffler, Paul Postma, Nick Petersen, Dennis Sticha and Johannes Bischofberger, Samuel Witting, who suffered a lower body injury on Friday, will also be missing against Znojmo.

Sun, 21.11.2021, 18:00: HCB Südtirol Alperia - Steinbach Black Wings Linz
Referees: OFNER, STERNAT, Mantovani, Pardatscher. | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<
The HCB Südtirol Alperia wants to get back on winning ways after the 2:6 derby defeat. The Steinbach Black Wings Linz lost narrowly to the EC-KAC on Friday with 2:3 after shootout. It was their first defeat after previously two wins in a row. In the standings, they still slipped back to the last place. Bolzano is in fifth place. BWL has struggled enormously away from home this season. They have only won two of nine away games. Bolzano's home record is slightly positive, with six wins from ten matches. In the first match of the season, the "Foxes" prevailed with 4:3-OT in Linz. It was their seventh win over the Black Wings from the past ten matches.