Release from 13.08.2020

Four teams with further roster decisions

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On Thursday August 13th, four teams presented roster activities for the upcoming season in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League. While the EC VSV and the HC Tiroler Wasserkraft Innsbruck  announced new arrivals, the spusu Vienna Capitals and the EC-KAC presented further contract extensions.

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Villach offensive takes shape
The EC VSV has pushed ahead with squad planning for the coming season in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League. In addition to the contract extension with Chris Collins, the Carinthians signed Sahir Gill of the Augsburg Panthers. However, national team defender Markus Schlacher has not received a new contract offer.

For Augsburg, 28-year-old Sahir Gill scored a total of 52 points in the last two seasons, including seven goals in eight Champions Hockey League games. Before the Canadian came to Europe in 2018, he played a total of 182 games in the AHL, for Rochester, Wilkes-Barre/Scranton and Hamilton (108 scorer points). Gill also played 134 games in the East Coast Hockey League (106 points, including 21 goals and 85 assists).

The contract with Calgary-based Canadian centre Chris Collins has been extended for another season. In his first year in Europe, he scored a total of 30 points in Villach, including eleven goals.

Next trio for HC Innsbruck
The HC TWK Innsbruck "Die Haie" has strengthened its squad with the two Austrian strikers Henrik Hochfilzer and Thomas Mader - both were under contract at EC Die Adler Stadtwerke Kitzbühel - and the Norwegian defender Adrian Saxrud Danielsen.

Henrik Hochfilzer has spent eleven seasons in Kitzbühel, and these seasons have made the winger a real veteran and crowd favourite in Kitzbühel, scoring 36 points (13G|23A) in the past Alps Hockey League season.

With Thomas Mader, further Austrian power is moving from Kitzbühel to Innsbruck. Before his time in Kitzbühel, he was engaged in Sweden for five years. In the 2012/13 season, the Pinzgauer got a taste of the first division at the Graz 99ers. Last year he scored 22 points (12G|10A) for the Tiroler Adler in the AHL.

With the Norwegian Adrian Saxrud Danielsen Innsbruck has engaged an experienced defender. The 27-year-old most recently played in Norway's first division for Lillehammer, but also has a season in the Swedish Allsvenskan (Tingsryds AIF) and appearances in Norway's national team.

Grosslercher and Bauer stay with the Caps
spusu Vienna Capitals has extended the contracts of two additional Austrians. Julian Grosslercher and Sascha Bauer will continue to play in Vienna in the coming season.

Julian Grosslercher faces his seventh season at the spusu Vienna Capitals. The 27-year-old striker has already played 307 games for the Caps, scoring 19 goals and 17 assists. Dave Cameron relied more and more on the Austrian in the past season, especially in penalty killing.

Sascha Bauer already celebrated his professional debut at the Caps at the age of 17 in the 2012/2013 season. In the past years, the now 25-year-old Viennese has been plagued by injuries time and again. Last season, the striker played for the Caps again in 36 games.

With Bauer and Grosslercher, the current basic squad of the spusu Vienna Capitals for the coming season now includes 15 players.

Two further personnel decisions at EC-KAC
The EC-KAC has extended the cooperation with Niklas Würschl until the end of the coming bet-at-home ICE season. Striker Marco Richter has not received a new contract offer from the KAC and will leave the club.

Niklas Würschl was born in Klagenfurt and trained at the EC-KAC, but received his fine-tuning in Sweden, his mother's home country. From 2014 to 2018 the Defender played in the offspring of Rögle BK. Two years ago he returned to his home club, in the farm team of the KAC the right-back established himself as a regular in 69 games in the Alps Hockey League so far (4 goals, 25 assists). Due to his positive performance development, the 20-year-old also received his first assignment in the combat team in the final phase of last season. The coming season should now bring the next step in his development in the form of establishing himself in the professional squad of the KAC.

Marco Richter is no longer in the EC-KAC squad. The 24-year-old did not receive a new contract offer and has to leave the club after four seasons. The striker played 208 games for the KAC in the former Erste Bank Ice Hockey League and in the Champions Hockey League. Richter is thus the eighth player from last year's team who will no longer be part of the team for the new ICE campaign.