Release from 04.04.2022

Hydro Fehérvár AV19 with first final appearance

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The "best-of-seven" finals series of the win2day ICE Hockey League between EC Red Bull Salzburg and Hydro Fehérvár AV19 will start on Tuesday. While the Austrians will play their eleventh finals series, the Hungarians will celebrate their finals debut. Final game one will be broadcast live on PULS24 from 7.25 pm and will be available worldwide on www.puls24.at/eishockey.

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Win2day ICE Hockey League | 05.04.2022 | Finals game 1 | Schedule
Tue, 05.04.2022, 7.45 pm: EC Red Bull Salzburg – Hydro Fehérvár AV19
Referees: OFNER, PIRAGIC, Riecken, Seewald. | >> FREE LIVE-STREAM PULS24 <<

For the first time in the history of the win2day ICE Hockey League, EC Red Bull Salzburg and Hydro Fehérvár AV19 will meet in a final series. Both teams rushed to the finals, as the Salzburg side is still without defeat in the running postseason after sweeps against Znojmo and Vienna. The Hungarians needed nine games to reach the finals, first landing the sweep against Pustertal and beating Villach 4-1 in the semifinals. Salzburg is still lurking spusu Vienna Capitals’ record, which was ICE’s lone team to show a perfect postseason and marched to the second title in the club's history without defeat in the playoffs in 2017.

Eleventh finals appearance for Salzburg
By qualifying for the 2022 Finals, EC Red Bull Salzburg set a new ICE record: Never before has a team managed to reach the finals series eleven times. Of the previous ten appearances – EC-KAC has also been in a finals series ten times since the league was founded – the "Red Bulls" have won the title six times. The last time they lifted the Karl Nedwed Trophy was in 2016, when HC TESLA Orli Znojmo was defeated 4-2. The last final Salzburg played in 2018, when they lost to HCB Südtirol Alperia in seven games. For Hydro Fehérvár AV19, the participation in the final series is an absolute premiere. They are the ninth team to qualify for finals.
Salzburg has a negative record in finals openers, as they have won seven out of ten opening games. But whenever Salzburg won the first game, they went on to win the title.

82 duels
EC Red Bull Salzburg and Hydro Fehérvár AV19 have faced each other 82 times. Salzburg won exactly 50 of these games, thus only had to admit defeat 32 times. At home, the Red Bulls have won 30 of 41 games against the Fehérvár team. Fehérvár won their last meeting on February 20th in Székesfehérvár 3:2, after Salzburg had been ahead twice.

In the playoff, both teams have met only once. In the 2018/19 season, the "Red Bulls" won in the quarterfinals with 4:2 victories.