Release from 23.12.2020

Full round on Boxing Day

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The short Christmas break in the bet-at-home ICE Hockey League will already end on Saturday, December 26. A total of five games are on the program. The game day will open with three games at 17:30. Among others, the spusu Vienna Capitals will face the Steinbach Black Wings 1992, who have a new interim head coach with Mark Szücs. The Sky Sport Austria live match will also be at 17:30. In this the Moser Medical Graz99ers and EC GRAND Immo VSV face each other. The match day will be concluded at 19:45 with another top clash. League leader HCB Südtirol Alperia plays against the EC Red Bull Salzburg. This game will be broadcasted live on Video33 TV or all Italian fans. In addition, all games, apart from the Sky Sport Austria live match, are available in the video stream. The EC-KAC is free from play.

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BET-AT-HOME ICE HOCKEY LEAGUE:
SA, 26.12.2020, 17:30: SPUSU VIENNA CAPITALS – STEINBACH BLACK WINGS 1992
REFEREES: FICHTNER, SMETANA, Kaspar, Tschrepitsch. I >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<

  • Both the spusu Vienna Capitals and the Steinbach Black Wings 1992 have acute form problems. While the Capitals, who recently had to do without numerous players due to illness and injury, have been waiting for four games for a win, the Black Wings have already lost five games in a row.
  • The last team in the standings from Linz parted their ways with head coach Pierre Beaulieu on Tuesday with immediate effect. Assistant Coach Mark Szücs will take over for the Canadian on an interim basis. 
  • Vienna could not win any of their last four games at home. Linz lost all of their last three away games.
  • The two teams have already met twice this season. Both teams celebrated one home win each (3:1-BWI & 5:3-VIC). Overall, they have faced each other 129 times. BWI leads in the H2H with 74:65.
  • Vienna, third in the league, is third both in the power play (20.51%) and the penalty killing (86.24%).
  • With 15.7 penalty minutes per game, the Viennese are by far the most undisciplined team in the league.

SA, 26.12.2020, 17:30: HYDRO FEHÉRVÁR AV19 – ICLINIC BRATISLAVA CAPITALS
REFEREES: RENCZ, SOOS, Muzsik, Vaczi. I >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<

  • The team of the hour, Hydro Fehérvár AV19, will meet league newcomer iClinic Bratislava Capitals for the third time. In both previous duels, the Hungarians prevailed. All in all, Fehérvár could win the last seven games. Most recently, they celebrated two victories against the EC Red Bull Salzburg. On Monday they even celebrated the highest victory in history against the Red Bulls (7:0).
  • Bratislava was victorious in three of the past five games. In their last game on Tuesday, the Slovaks celebrated a 3:2 win after overtime at the HC TIWAG Innsbruck - Die Haie. It was the third away win in a row for BRC.
  • In the standings, the second (AVS - 48 points) meets the ninth (BRC - 29 points).
  • Two players of AVS are in the top six in the scorers' standings. Colton Hargrove is fourth with 25 points (9G/16A), while János Hári is sixth with 24 points (10G/14A).
  • Fehérvár has the second-best scoring efficiency in the league with 12.21%. Bratislava is fifth with 9.6%.
SA, 26.12.2020, 17:30: MOSER MEDICAL GRAZ99ERS – EC GRAND IMMO VSV
REFEREES: BULOVEC, TRILAR, Gatol, Riecken. I >> SKY SPORT AUSTRIA <<
  • In the Sky Sport Austria live match, the Moser Medical Graz99ers will meet the EC GRAND Immo VSV. The broadcast will start 17:20.
  • Graz is currently in a crisis. They won only one game from the past eleven games. In addition, the 99ers have been waiting for 120 minutes and 30 seconds for a goal. In the last two games, they were defeated by the Dornbirn Bulldogs (2:0) and Hydro Fehérvár AV19 (1:0).
  • Villach celebrated a surprising 2:1 win after overtime against league leader HCB Südtirol Alperia on Tuesday. It was the first win after two defeats in a row.
  • The two teams are separated by ten points and two places in the standings. G99 is eighth with 33 points. VSV is tenth with 23 points.
  • Both duels of the season were won by the Styrians. In October with 6:2 in Villach, in November the 99ers won with 4:2 at home. Overall, however, VSV leads in the H2H with 64:52.
  • In this game, the weakest defensives in the league meet each other. Villach has conceded 80 goals so far, Graz conceded 81 goals.

SA, 26.12.2020, 19:15: DORNBIRN BULLDOGS - HC TIWAG INNSBRUCK - DIE HAIE
REFEREES: HUBER, NIKOLIC K., Martin, Seewald. I >> PPV - LIVESTREAM <<

  • The third west derby of the season between the Dornbirn Bulldogs and HC TIWAG Innsbruck - Die Haie starts at 19:15. The first two meetings of the season were both won by the HCI (4:1, 6:2).
  • Currently, both teams are in very good shape. While Innsbruck always scored points in the last five games, Dornbirn even scored points in the last six games.
  • It is also a neighborly duel in the standings. With 34 points each, both teams are in fifth (HCI) and sixth (DEC) place. However, the Tyroleans have already played one game more.
  • The encounter between Dornbirn and Innsbruck took place for the first time on September 9th, 2012, and since then both teams have met 44 times. Both teams won 22 games.
  • With 12.46%, HCI has the best scoring efficiency in the league. Overall, the Tyroleans have 81 goals scored. Only Fehérvár (91) has scored more goals, but they have already played three games more.
  • Daniel Ciampini (HCI) is the league's top scorer with 31 points. The Canadian is also the league's top goal scorer with 16 goals. The 30-year-old's scoring streak is six games. With Braden Christoffer (29 points), the second best scorer in the league also comes from the ranks of the "Sharks".

SA, 26.12.2020, 19:45: HCB SÜDTIROL ALPERIA – EC RED BULL SALZBURG
REFEREES: PIRAGIC, ZRNIC, Hribar, Zgonc. I >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<>> VIDEO33 TV <<

  • The match day will be concluded at 19:45 with the first match of the season between the league leader HCB Südtirol Alperia and the EC Red Bull Salzburg.
  • Both teams lost their last game While Bolzano lost at the EC GRAND Immo VSV with 2:1 after overtime, Salzburg conceded two defeats at Hydro Fehérvár AV19. The 7:0 defeat on Monday was also the Red Bulls' highest defeat against the Hungarians in history. This was followed by a 4:2 defeat on Tuesday.
  • While the "Foxes" are at the top of the standings with 48 points from 21 games, Salzburg is seventh with 33 points from 19 games.
  • In the last two home games, the HCB suffered two narrow defeats after overtime (2:3-KAC) and shootout (2:3-VIC). Nevertheless, the South Tyroleans are in first place in the home standings with 27 points.
  • The two teams have not yet faced each other this season. However, the duel has already taken place a total of 50 times. Salzburg left the ice as winner in 29 encounters, Bolzano in 21 games. In the last encounter, on February 21st, 2020, HCB won with 3:1 at home.
  • With only 40 goals conceded, the "Foxes" have by far the best defense in the league. Salzburg has conceded 54 goals so far.
  • The game will be exciting in the special team. HCB has the best power play in the league (22.54%), RBS has the best penalty killing (RBS - 94.55%). The Red Bulls conceded only three goals in numerical disadvantage. In addition, the Red Bulls are also enormously strong in the PP. With 21.2%, they follow immediately behind Bolzano in second place. In the PK, the South Tyroleans are only in ninth place (78.4%).
  • For Salzburg, the games against the Dornbirn Bulldogs and the HC TWK Innsbruck - Die Haie, which were postponed from Tuesday, December 15th and Wednesday, December 16th, have been rescheduled. The game against the Bulldogs will now take place on Wednesday, January 20th. The game against Innsbruck will be made up on Wednesday, February 3rd. Both games will start at 19:15.