Release from 29.08.2023

Numerous test matches this week

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The new season of the win2day ICE Hockey League is approaching with big steps. Thus, the preparation for the season is slowly but surely entering its final phase. This week there will be a total of eleven preseason games with ICE participation. In addition, Salzburg, Bolzano and Innsbruck will play their first matches in the Champions Hockey League.

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On Wednesday, the HC Pustertal and Migross Supermercati Asiago Hockey are in action. Both teams have a home game. Pustertal will have to deal with the EHC Kloten from Switzerland. Asiago will face the Concordia University from Montreal, which also plays against the EC-KAC on Sunday. The only game on Thursday will be played by the HC Motor České Budějovice and the Steinbach Black Wings Linz. In addition to the game in the Czech Republic, the Black Wings will also face the Nürnberg ICE Tigers from the DEL on Sunday.

Four preseason matches with ICE participation are scheduled for Friday. There will be an internal ICE duel between the HK SZ Olimpija and the Moser Medical Graz99ers. The BEMER Pioneers Vorarlberg faces the ESV Kaufbeuren from the DEL2. In addition, Hydro Fehérvár AV19 will play against the HC Nové Zámky in Slovakia and the spusu Vienna Capitals will welcome the Straubing Tigers from the DEL in Zell am See. Just two days later, last season's DEL quarterfinalists will play at the EC iDM Wärmepumpen VSV. The Vienna Capitals will travel to the HC Nové Zámky on Sunday, who are in action against Fehérvár on Friday.

>> To the preseason schedule

CHL group stage starts
With champion EC Red Bull Salzburg, runner-up HCB Südtirol Alperia and Regular Season third-placed HC TIWAG Innsbruck, the CHL representatives will start into the Champions Hockey League this week. All three teams will play the first two of a total of six group games from Thursday to Sunday.

>> To the CHL schedule