Release from 29.03.2025

Linz playing against the end of the season again

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The sixth clash in the win2day ICE Hockey League's best-of-seven semi-final series between the EC-KAC and the Steinbach Black Wings Linz is scheduled for Sunday. The Red Jackets have the first opportunity to reach the final away from home. The game will be shown on PULS 24, in a free livestream on puls24.at and on the free streaming service JOYN.

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Steinbach Black Wings Linz are playing against the end of the season on Sunday - the Upper Austrians are familiar with this situation from their quarter-final duel with Graz. With a home win against the KAC, however, the Black Wings would force another Game 7. Klagenfurt, on the other hand, can advance to the final series against EC Red Bull Salzburg with another win.

On Friday, the Red Jackets turned the game in their favour after trailing 0:2 and 1:3. The EC-KAC have taken a 3:2 series lead 13 times so far, and in ten cases - always in game six - they won the respective confrontation. For the Upper Austrians, this is the fourth time in the current post-season that a defeat means the end of the season. The Black Wings have contested such "elimination games" 28 times so far as part of "best-of-seven" duels, winning 14 of them and losing 14. Linz has only managed to turn around a 2:3 deficit in a series twice so far: In this year's quarter-final against Graz and in the legendary 2010 semi-final against Vienna (in which a 0:3 turned into a 4:3); the Black Wings lost the other seven series in which the score was 2:3 in the meantime.

win2day ICE Hockey League, semi-final 6
Sun, 30.03.2025:
17:30: Steinbach Black Wings Linz - EC-KAC
Referees: HRONSKY, M. NIKOLIC, Bedynek, Riecken | >> PULS 24JOYN <<
Standings in the "best-of-7" series 2:3