Five games Tuesday night

Bet-at-home ICE Hockey League | Dienstag, 22. Dezember:
Tue, 22.12.2020, 6.45 pm: Dornbirn Bulldogs – Moser Medical Graz99ers
Referees: BERNEKER, RUETZ, Martin, Tschrepitsch. | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<

• For the second time this season, the Dornbirn Bulldogs and the Moser Medical Graz99ers will face each other. The duel already starts at 6:45 pm, the other four Tuesday games begin at 7:15 pm.
• The two teams are next to each other in the standings: Graz (33 points) is seventh, two points ahead of eighth-placed Dornbirn (31), which has played two games less.
• The teams' form curves could not be more different: While G99 won only one of the last ten games (5 out of 30 possible points), DEC picked up five wins or 17 points in the comparable period.
• The first duel of the season, in Graz at the beginning of October, was won by DEC with a score of 2:1.
• Of 41 games against each other so far, G99 has won 25. At the Messehalle Dornbirn, the teams have split their wins fairly so far (10 DEC and 10 G99, respectively).
• With 10,5% the DEC still has the weakest powerplay in the league. (G99 18,8% | #7)
• G99 is the only team besides leader HCB that has yet to concede a shorthander.
• Andrew Yogan celebrates his 200th league appearance against Graz. In 16 games for Dornbirn, the US-American scored eight goals and posted six assists.
• G99 will have to do continue Michael Rasmussen in Dornbirn who is fighting for a place on the NHL roster at the Detroit Red Wings. Travis Oleksuk, Daniel Oberkofler and Lukas Kainz return to the lineup.

• HC TIWAG Innsbruck - Die Haie, which has won four games in a row and is sixth in the table with 33 points, will host the iClinic Bratislava Capitals.
• The league newcomers from Slovakia, who like Innsbruck have played 22 games, hold 27 points, are ninth and have picked up seven points from their last three games.
• The two teams have met twice so far this year, in both games BRC won - in the first duel after shootout.
• In its last four victories, HCI showed its qualities on the offensive end, scoring an average of 5,25 goals, compared to 3,14 goals per game before.
• With Daniel Ciampini Innsbruck has league's top scorer in the line-up: He holds at 15 goals and with 30 points he also leads the ICE scoring statistics. Ciampini scored at least once in each of the last four games.
• BRC has scored 2,00 points per game in its first five games under neo-head coach Peter Draisaitl. Before that, it was 1,00 points per game - which means the average is currently doubled.

• In its 600th league home game since its re-establishment in the summer of 2000, the EC-KAC welcomes the spusu Vienna Capitals.
• The Carinthians' record: 599 games, 389 wins, 210 losses and a goal differential of plus 640 (2145:1505).
• The KAC is currently in fourth place and three points behind VIC, which, has played one game less.
• In the last four games, both teams have celebrated only one victory, picking up five (VIC) and four (KAC) points, respectively.
• KAC recently struggled at home, losing the last three games at Klagenfurt Stadthalle. VIC trumped on the road, winning the last three en-suite.
• KAC has never lost three games in a row this season.
• The KAC scored in each of its last eleven home games against VIC.
• Of 135 duels so far, the KAC has won 71. In each of the previous two meetings this season, the road team prevailed.
• It is possible that defender Thomas Vallant and Blaž Gregorc as well as forward Dennis Sticha will return to the line-up for the game against Vienna. The final decisions will be made by the coaching staff and the medical department after the morning skate on game day.

• The tenth-ranked EC GRAND Immo VSV hosts leader HCB Südtirol Alperia, which has the third consecutive road-game coming up.
• In the last seven games, the teams have performed differently: VSV scored only in the shootout win in Vienna (2:1), while HCB registered in each of the seven encounters, losing only twice (1x SO, 1x OT).
• VSV has lost its last four home games with at least two goals difference.
• In the Villach Stadthalle, the two teams have picked up nine wins each. In the last four games, VSV has prevailed three times.
• HCB won team’s first encounter end of November 4:1.
• Even though HCB did not score a powerplay goal in its two games over the weekend (5:4-SO @BRC and 3:0 @VIC), it still leads the PP statistics with 23.2%. VSV is there to only tenth, holding at 15.7%.
• At HCB, Brett Findlay has been particularly convincing recently: the center, who returned from the DEL in the summer, now has 17 points (7G | 10A) out of 17 games. In the last eight games he has always scored. But Nicholas Plastino showed up too, as he leads the ICE plus/minus statistics and has always scored in the last three games.
• VSV will still have to play without its second-leading scorer Scott Kosmachuk (5G | 9A), who is suffering from a lower-body injury. Captain Jamie Fraser, returns to the lineup.
• For HCB, Leland Irving, Justin Fazio and Ivan Tauferer are unlikely to play, while Ben Youds and Daniel Frank - both were spared on the last road trip - could be back.

• Hydro Fehérvár AV19 and EC Red Bull Salzburg meet each other "back-to-back". After the third duel of the season tonight, Monday, they meet each other again in Hungary on Tuesday.
• A detailed preview of Monday's game can be found here.
• You can watch Monday's game in the pay-per-view video stream here.