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Race to Opel & Beyschlag Young Star of December is on - Vote now

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For the third time this season bet-at-home ICE Hockey League is looking for Opel & Beyschlag Young Star of the month. Four young players are up for election again, the voting closes Sunday night.

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The following players are nominated for the December vote:

Paul Huber (2000) – EC Red Bull Salzburg

  • the 21-year-old is nominated for a monthly selection for the third time; in the 19-20 season he won the January vote, 20-21 the November ranking
  • the Graz native moved to the Red Bull organization early on, progressing through all youth teams and making his ICE debut on December 26th back in 2019
  • the Austrian national team player has played 30 games for the league leaders so far this season, scoring four goals and adding five assists; in his eight December games, Huber recorded two goals and one assist - and Salzburg won all of them

Armin Preiser (2000) – spusu Vienna Capitals

  • the 21-year-old was trained in the club's own Silver Capitals junior squad and received his first professional contract in the summer of 2020
  • he made his ICE debut on November 22nd, 2019; he has been a full member of the first team since the 20-21 season
  • Preiser has two goals and one assist in 18 games this season; all of his points came in his nine December appearances

Kristóf Retfalvi (2001) – Hydro Fehérvár AV19

  • the 20-year-old Hungarian international was born in Zalaegerszeg and found his way into the youth organization of Székesfehérvár at an early age
  • until the past season Retfalvi played in the AVS farm team, with Fehérvári Titánok in the Hungarian first division
  • this year he also played ICE games, so he is already in 63 competitive games this season; in his ten ICE December games he scored one goal and one assist

Fabian Hochegger (2001) – EC-KAC

  • the 20-year-old native of Klagenfurt went through all junior teams at EC-KAC and already got his first appearances with the farm team in the Alps Hockey League in the 16-17 season
  • the 19-20 season he played for the Drummondville Voltigeurs (8G|11A) in the QMJHL, for the Canadians the former Austrian junior nationalteam player played two games last season as well
  • Hochegger made his ICE debut this year on October 15th; he scored his first goal in a 4-3 overtime loss in Graz on December 28th


>> VOTING <<

Procedure of the election
First, five monthly winners will be determined. For this purpose, four players per month are nominated to take part in the voting. Due to less gamedays in September 2021, the first two months have been combined into one election. The five monthly winners will then compete in April 2022 for the title of "Opel & Beyschlag Young Star of the 2021/22 season".

The election consists of three components: in addition to the fan voting on the league homepage, the PULS24 experts, as well as journalists vote. If two or more players receive the same number of votes, they will be ranked according to the result of the fan vote.

Winner September/October | Benjamin Lanzinger (EC GRAND Immo VSV)
Winner November | Michal Kvasnica (HC TESLA Orli Znojmo)

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Paul Huber (RBS)
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Armin Preiser (VIC)
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