Release from 27.09.2017

Black Wings travel to Klagenfurt

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On Thursday LIWEST Black Wings Linz travel to Klagenfurt for their fourth road game. EC-KAC has not only won the previous two season games, they also decided the last four meetings with the Upper Austrians to their favour. The round 7 opener will be broadcasted live at Sky Sport 8 HD.  
 
Round 7, 28.09.2017:
EC-KAC - EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz (Sky Sport 8 HD live / Sky Ticket)
 

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28.09.2017, 19:15: EC-KAC - EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz (Sky Sport 8 HD live / Sky Ticket)
Referees: GRUBER, SMETANA, Nothegger, Seewald.
  • While got got back to winning ways against Dornbirn lately, Klagenfurt heads into the Sky live game with two successive wins
  • In the 2016-17 season the two teams met six times with KAC winning the last four games
  • Manuel Ganahl earned at least one point in each of last season's games against Linz (four goals, four assists)
  • With nine points Linz (two goals, seven assists) Linz defender Sebastien Piche leads EBEL scoring charts together with Caps forward Rafael Rotter
  • At the moment KAC has the league's weakest PK available with conceding nine goals against in 28 shorthanded situations (67.9 per cent)
  • After injury Jamie Lundmark returns to the lineup to start his sixth season with Klagenfurt (132 goals so far)
Jamie Lundmark (EC-KAC): „After an almost seven-week break because of injury I'm eager to come back to action. From the stands I had the impression that we have found to our game better and better. Our practice week was good and I hope that we can improve for the Linz game once again.“
 
Absentee: Manuel Geier
Doubtful: Jon Rheault, David Fischer, Richie Regehr
 
Fabio Hofer (Liwest Black Wings Linz): „It will work out all right if we forecheck and play hard against Klagenfurt. In general we have to keep our game simple and get more pucks goalwards.“
 
Doubtful: Dan DaSilva
Absentee: Andreas Kristler