Release from 04.12.2020

Duel for ICE lead on Saturday

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The spusu Vienna Capitals will receive the HCB Südtirol Alperia on Saturday in a direct duel for the lead in the standings. Even if the two teams might give up their top position in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League to the Moser Medical Graz99ers on Friday, the winner of this clash will definitely be at the top on Saturday evening. Important duels will also be fought by the neighbors in standings iClinic Bratislava Capitals and Dornbirn Bulldogs, who will meet in Dornbirn on both Saturday and Sunday.

bet-at-home ICE Hockey League, Saturday 5 December 2020:
spusu Vienna Capitals - HCB Südtirol Alperia, 19:15, live in the Pay-Per-View-Stream of the Caps
iClinic Bratislava Capitals - Dornbirn Bulldogs, 19:15, live on the Pay-Per-View stream on live.ice.hockey 

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spusu Vienna Capitals - HCB Südtirol Alperia, 19:15, live in the Pay-Per-View-Stream of the Caps
Referees: FICHTNER, SMETANA, Kaspar, Riecken

  • The big "clash" will take place in Vienna on Saturday evening. In the duel second against first (before the Friday matches) the spusu Vienna Capitals will meet Leader HCB Südtirol Alperia. Both teams have equal points at the top of the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League standings.
  • The winner of the clash will take the lead in the standings regardless of the Friday results.
  • The Foxes won all seven games after the Corona break and have not lost a point since then. They did concede more than one goal in only one of the seven games.
  • The Caps won the last four games, two of them in overtime or shootout.
  • The first match this season went to Bolzano with 3:2.
  • The two teams have already faced each other 48 times. The Viennese won 29 games, but were always defeated in the last three duels.
  • The Viennese won four of the last five home games against Bolzano.
  • While the Foxes are already back in action on Sunday (in Graz), the Capitals have at least one day of rest before they host the EC-KAC.
  • The match will be broadcast on the Pay-Per-View-Caps livestream from 18.55 hrs.

iClinic Bratislava Capitals - Dornbirn Bulldogs, 19:15, live on the Pay-Per-View stream on live.ice.hockey
Referees: BERNEKER, ROHATSCH, Martin, Tschrepitsch

  • The iClinic Bratislava Capitals and the Dornbirn Bulldogs meet for the first time in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League. But this is a double event. Both on Saturday and Sunday the two teams will duel each other in Dornbirn. Bratislava has given up the home right for the Saturday game.
  • The Bratislava Capitals recently celebrated a home win against HC TWK Innsbruck die Haie. Under interim coach Dusan Pasek the Slovaks are still unbeaten (3/3).
  • The Dornbirn Bulldogs could only conquer two points in the last four games (OT victory against VSV).
  • In the standings the two teams are only two points apart. With a perfect weekend, they could already catch up with the top half of the table.
  • While the Dornbirn Bulldogs take the fewest penalty minutes on average (9.5 per game), the Bratislava Capitals spend on average the fourth most time of all ICE teams on the penalty bench.
  • The game can be watched in the Pay-Per-View stream on live.ice.hockey