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Linz ends losing streak, heads to Bratislava on Saturday

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With a 3:2 overtime win at EC Red Bull Salzburg, the Steinbach Black Wings 1992 ended their losing streak at five. Dragan Umicevic hit the game winner for the Upper Austrians.

After the overtime win, the Austrian Side travels to iClinic Bratislava Capitals to take on the bet-at-home ICE newcomer in Saturday’s lone game, brought forward of the 13th round. The games originally scheduled for this weekend have been postponed due to medical precautionary measures.

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After five defeats in a row, the Steinbach Black Wings 1992 cheered a 3:2 victory after overtime at EC Red Bull Salzburg. It was the first success against Salzburg since September 20th, 2019 and four defeats in a row. Meanwhile, the "Bulls" had to accept their third defeat in a row, but secured one point. The home team, with Jesper Eliasson covering the net, was led 1-0 early by former Linz player Rick Schofield (4.), who finished a give-and-go. But Alexander Lahoda had the answer almost immediately and netted in the 6th minute to equalize. The fact that the guests then turned the score in the first frame was thanks to Marco Brucker, after a nice pass of Dragan Umicevic.

In the second period Linz had a little more of the game - but the goal was scored by the "Red Bulls": In the 40th minute Salzburg’s Schofild netted for the second time. The equalizer gave a boost to the home team, they dominated the last third, but failed to score because of David Kickert, who saved 14 shots towards his goal in the last section. So the game went into overtime - and there Umicevic made everything clear with the first chance the Linz team got. Alone he approached Eliasson and left him no chance.

Bet-at-home ICE Hockey League, 19th round on October 23rd:
EC Red Bull Salzburg – Steinbach Black Wings 1992 2:3 OT (1:2, 1:0, 0:0, 0:1)
Referees: GRUBER, SMETANA, Nothegger, Seewlad. | Zuschauer: 485
Goals RBS: Schofield (4., 40.)
Goals BWI: Lahoda (6.), Brucker (16.), Umicevic (64.)



bet-at-home ICE Hockey League, 13th round:
Sat, October 24th, 5.30 pm: iClinic Bratislava Capitals – Steinbach Black Wings 1992
Referees: BALUSKA, HRONSKY, Gatol, Jedlicka.

  • The encounter is an game of the 13th round and was originally scheduled for November 16th. After all games scheduled between 23rd and 25th October were postponed due to precautionary measures, this game could be brought forward.
  • The Steinbach Black Wings 1992 will have to play again less than 24 hours after their overtime victory, and will take on the iClinic Bratislava Capitals on the road.
  • BWI celebrated its third victory of the season on Friday, ending a five-game negative series.
  • For BRC it is now the fifth ICE game, only the second in the Ondrej Nepela Arena. The only home game so far, on September 27th, Bratislava lost against Vienna 2:7.
  • The two teams had already faced each other once on October 16th: At that time, the Slovaks won 5-2 and celebrated their first victory after regulation. They thus scored three of their five goals from superiority situations and are ranked third in the league with 27.8%.