Release from 14.11.2026

Pioneers forward Noah Serdachny: “I’m so proud of this group”

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Pioneers Vorarlberg have their first win of the season. On Friday night, the Vorarlberg side erased a 1-3 deficit against HC Falkensteiner Pustertal and won 7-4, ending the longest losing streak in league history at 27 games.

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Turnaround in the middle frame
Pustertal got off to the better start in front of 1,556 fans at the Vorarlberghalle: Gerry Fitzgerald scored nine seconds in and added another soon after, and the visitors led 3-1 at the first intermission. The Pioneers turned the game around within three and a half minutes in the second period. Noah Serdachny, who had already set up the first goal, cut the deficit before Guus van Nes and Blake Murray put the hosts ahead. Serdachny scored the game-winner on the power play in the third, and two empty-netters sealed the final score.
 
A long drought comes to an end
The win ends a streak that dated back to last season. Since late January, the Pioneers had lost 27 straight games, three of them after regulation. The previous record belonged to KHL Medvescak Zagreb with 26 losses in the 2018/19 season.
 
“We fought back”
“That one feels unreal,” Serdachny said. “Fans were great. It was easy to play for them. They fired us up, and we said between the intermission, we don’t want to sit back and take it to them in the third, and I think we did that.” Going down early, it would have been easy to give up, Serdachny added: “It would have been super easy to quit, you know. People may not believe in us, and we fought back, just like we’re going to try and do this season. And I’m so proud of this group.”
 
The Pioneers are back in action on Sunday at HCB Südtirol Alperia (16:00, live on Sporteurope.TV).