League leader Pustertal faces first pursuer Salzburg

win2day ICE Hockey League | 03.10.2023:
Tue, 03.10.2023, 19:15: EC-KAC - spusu Vienna Capitals
Referees: FICHTNER, SMETANA, Hribar, Snoj. | >> live.ice.hockey <<
After the EC-KAC lost the 352nd Carinthian derby in Villach with 2:4 on Sunday, the Klagenfurt team will face the spusu Vienna Capitals for the next top game on Tuesday. The Viennese, in turn, were in action on Sunday at home against Salzburg. However, the game had to be abandoned after the first period for safety reasons due to a leakage of the cooling liquid and the resulting undermining of the ice surface and will be replayed at a later date. In the standings, the Capitals are in eighth place with nine points from five games. Immediately behind them is the KAC, who picked up eight points in six games. With 20 goals against (VIC) and 22 goals against (KAC), both teams currently have some of the weakest defenses in the league. In the offensive, the KAC is particularly convincing in the special teams. With six power play goals from 21 powerplay situations, the KAC is at the top of this statistic (28.6%). Both teams last faced each other in a competitive game on January 27th. At that time, the KAC won 5:3 at home. In the remaining three games of the 2022/23 season, the KAC celebrated two more victories. In this year's preseason, the Capitals won with 5:2 in Klagenfurt on August 25th.

Tue, 03.10.2023, 19:15: EC Red Bull Salzburg - HC Pustertal Wölfe
Referees: HLAVATY, STERNAT, Bedynek, Wimmler. | >> live.ice.hockey <<
The EC Red Bull Salzburg (2nd) and the HC Pustertal Wölfe (1st) will meet for the top clash on Tuesday. After seven rounds, Pustertal is surprisingly at the top of the table with 17 points. On Sunday, they suffered their first defeat of the season at home against Olimpija (2:4), but they still have a two-point lead over Salzburg, which was leading 2:0 after the first period in Vienna on Sunday, but after that the game had to be abandoned for safety reasons due to a leakage of the cooling liquid and the resulting undermining of the ice surface . The game will be replayed at a later date. Previously, the Red Bulls won five of six games this season, losing only in Innsbruck with 1:2 after overtime. Against Pustertal, RBS won seven out of eight games in the win2day ICE Hockey League so far. With Peter Schneider, the current league top scorer is in the line-up of the Red Bulls (12 points). Pustertal's new signing David Morley follows immediately behind with eleven points. The Red Bulls celebrated a 5:2 victory in Klagenfurt on August.

Tue, 03.10.2023, 19:15: EC iDM Wärmepumpen VSV - Hydro Fehérvár AV19
Referees: GROZNIK, OFNER, Bärnthaler, Miklic. | >> live.ice.hockey <<
Third in the table EC iDM Wärmepumpen VSV celebrated a 4:2 prestige win over the EC-KAC in the 352nd Carinthian derby on Sunday and are already seven points ahead of their local rivals with 15 points. On Tuesday, Villach will host Hydro Fehérvár AV19, who are fourth in the table and one point behind the Eagles. With three wins in a row, most recently beating Innsbruck 3:0 on Saturday, the 2022 finalists have the longest winning streak of any ICE team. Villach and Fehérvár already faced each other in the preseason. In a high-scoring game, the VSV, which has yet lost any of its four home games this season, prevailed 7:4.

Tue, 03.10.2023, 19:15: HC TIWAG Innsbruck – Die Haie - Steinbach Black Wings Linz
Referees: HUBER, NIKOLIC M., Seewald E., Seewald J. | >> live.ice.field hockey <<
After three wins in a row, the HC TIWAG Innsbruck lost again for the first time on Saturday. The Steinbach Black Wings Linz, on the other hand, celebrated their first win on Sunday after four losses in a row before. The Sharks are seventh in the standings with eleven points, five points and three places ahead of the Black Wings. One of the problem areas in the game of the Upper Austrians are the special teams. In the power play, they are only in tenth place with 10%. In the penalty killing they are in ninth place (79%). Innsbruck, on the other hand, is in the lead in the PK with (91.7%).

Tue, 03.10.2023, 19:30: BEMER Pioneers Vorarlberg - HCB Südtirol Alperia
Referees: HOLZER, NIKOLIC K., Martin, Sparer. | >> live.ice.hockey <<
The BEMER Pioneers Vorarlberg had an enormously strong start to the season, with four wins in the first seven games and are currently in fifth place in the table with twelve points. Vice-champion HCB Südtirol Alperia, on the other hand, has only one win so far and is only twelfth in the table with three points. The South Tyroleans already had a hard time against the Vorarlberger team last season, with two wins from four games. Big problem of the foxes in this season so far is the offense. With just eight goals scored, Bolzano has the second weakest offense in the league. In the past two games, they failed to score a single goal. The Pioneers, on the other hand, already have 23 goals. Nine of the 23 goals resulted from power play situations. In total, they were able to convert 28.1% of all powerplay situations (2nd place). HCB was successful in the powerplay only twice (5.7% - 11th place).

Tue, 03.10.2023, 19:45: Migross Supermercati Asiago Hockey - Moser Medical Graz99ers
Referees: PIRAGIC, REZEK, Rigoni, Zgonc. | >> live.ice.hockey <<
Bottom of the table Migross Supermercati Asiago Hockey and eleventh in the table Moser Medical Graz99ers conclude the eighth round on Tuesday. While the 99ers have won only one of their six games so far this season, Asiago is still waiting for its first win of the season. On Sunday, the Italians lost with 2:5 in Linz, while Graz was defeated 1:3 by the Pioneers Vorarlberg. Last season, both teams won two games each in the H2H.

win2day ICE Hockey League | 05.10.2023
Thu, 05.10.2023, 19:15: HK SZ Olimpija - EC Red Bull Salzburg
Referees: OFNER, RENCZ, Puff, Vaczi. | >> live.ice.hockey <<
The EC Red Bull Salzburg will face the HK SZ Olimpija just 48 hours after the top match against league leader HC Pustertal Wölfe. The Slovenians are free from play on Tuesday. With four wins from seven games this season, the Slovenians are in sixth place in the table. On Sunday they prevailed at league leader Pustertal with 4:2. Against Salzburg, the Dragons have won three out of eight duels in the ICE so far. Last season, however, the Red Bulls were victorious in all four encounters.