Release from 03.04.2026

Eddie Pasquale sets impressive playoff record for shutout streak

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Eddie Pasquale of HC Falkensteiner Pustertal has now gone an impressive 268 minutes and 9 seconds without conceding a goal. In all three semifinal games against Olimpija Ljubljana, the Canadian recorded a shutout. In the fourth game of the quarterfinal series against Salzburg, he allowed just one goal in the 18th minute. With that, Pasquale currently holds the longest shutout streak in playoff history by a wide margin. In second place is Sebastian Dahm (KAC), who went 164 minutes and 3 seconds without conceding in the 2024 playoffs.

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Pasquale is currently an unbeatable wall: Olimpija Ljubljana’s players have repeatedly failed to find a way past him. But it’s not just the Slovenians who struggled – Salzburg’s forwards also repeatedly ran into the Pustertal goalie during the quarterfinals.

In the three semifinal games, Pasquale stopped 22, 24, and 27 shots. In the fourth quarterfinal against Salzburg, he allowed only one goal out of 30 shots – in the 18th minute by Peter Schneider. In the following 268 minutes and 9 seconds, he didn’t concede a single goal. Since the fourth quarterfinal went into the 106th minute, Pasquale has now been shutout for almost four and a half full 60 minute games.

With a wide margin, second place belongs to Sebastian Dahm (EC KAC), who went 164 minutes and 3 seconds without conceding between March 3 and 9, 2024. Third place goes to Atte Tolvanen (EC Red Bull Salzburg), who stayed 160 minutes and 47 seconds without allowing a goal in last season’s finals. Long shutout streaks were extremely rare before that. Fourth place belongs to Matthew Zaba, who went 153 minutes and 38 seconds without conceding for the Vienna Capitals in 2013.

A new, impressive playoff record is already set – and in the fourth quarterfinal on Easter Sunday in Ljubljana (18:00/Sporteurope.tv), Eddie Pasquale has the chance to extend it even further.