Release from 05.02.2025

Cortina completes the Master Round

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S.G. Cortina Hafro is the fifth and final team to qualify for the Master Round of the Alps Hockey League. The Italians beat EC Bregenzerwald 4:1 in the 234th and final game of the first phase of the Regular Season, leaving them just one point ahead of the sixth-placed Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan. Last year's finalists were only leading 2:1 until two minutes before the end of the game.

The intermediate round begins on Tuesday, February 11. The game schedule will be published tomorrow, Thursday.

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Cortina needed a win at twelfth-placed Bregenzerwald at the end of the first phase of the Regular Season in order to move up to fifth place and thus qualify for the Master Round and playoffs. In an extremely evenly-matched game, the visitors had to fight until the end. After 20 goalless minutes, the home side from Bregenzerwald even took the lead in the 28th minute through Julian Zwerger. However, Cortina were unimpressed and equalized just one and a half minutes later through Gregory Di Tomaso to make it 1:1. In the 34th minute, Filippo Pompanin finally put last year's finalists ahead in the powerplay. It remained a tight 2:1 until two minutes before the end of the game, when Bregenzerwald risked everything and took goalkeeper Jami Pasanen off the ice, and so they cenceded two more empty-net goals. Cortina thus moved up to the final Master Round spot and pushed Sterzing down to sixth place. In the end, the Broncos are just one point short of last year's finalist. Bregenzerwald finished the first phase of the regular season in twelfth place and will now fight for a pre-playoff spot in Qualification Round B.

Alps Hockey League:
Wed, 05.02.2025:
EC Bregenzerwald - S.G. Cortina Hafro 1:4 (0:0, 1:2, 0:2)
Referees: HUBER, RUETZ, Jäger, Rinker. | Spectators: 678
Goals ECB: 1:0 Zwerger J. (28.)
Goals SGC: 1:1 Di Tomaso G. (29.), 1:2 Pompanin F. (34./PP1), 1:3 Lacedelli R. (59./EN), 1:4 Pompanin F. (60./EN)

Groups for the intermediate round
The intermediate round begins on Tuesday, February 11. Below are the respective groups and the list of bonus points. The game schedule will be pubished tomorrow, Thursday.

Master Round:
#1 EK Die Zeller Eisbären - 4 bonus points
#2 Rittner Buam SkyAlps - 3 bonus points
#3 SIJ Acroni Jesenice- 2 bonus points
#4 Adler Stadtwerke Kitzbühel - 1 bonus point
#5 S.G. Cortina Hafro - 0 bonus points

Qualification Round A:
#6 Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan - 3 bonus points
#9 HC Meran/o Pircher - 2 bonus points
#10 Red Bull Hockey Juniors - 1 bonus point
#13 HC Gherdeina valgardena.it - 0 bonus points

Qualification Round B:
#7 KHL Sisak - 3 bonus points
#8 Hockey Unterland Cavaliers - 2 bonus points
#11 HK RST Pellet Celje - 1 bonus point
#12 EC Bregenzerwald - 0 bonus points