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Race to Young Star of December is on - Vote now

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For the third time this season win2day ICE Hockey League is looking for Young Star of the month, with four young players being up for election again, the voting closes Friday night.

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The following players are nominated for the December vote:
Fabian Hochegger (2001) – EC-KAC

  • Fabian Hochegger is a native of Klagenfurt and has always played for the "Rotjacken" except for two years in the Canadian QMJHL for Drummondville Voltigeurs
  • already in the past season he played 43 ICE games (2G|4A)
  • this year Hochegger already played 32 games for the first team, scoring five goals and six assists
  • in his eight December games the forward scored three goals and two assists and had a plus/minus value of plus 5

Lucas Thaler (2002) – EC Red Bull Salzburg

  • Lucas Thaler is nominated for the second time; in the election for "Young Star of the Month September/October" he lost against Miha Bericic
  • Thaler is a native of Villach and moved from the "Adler" to Sweden for the 18-19 season, there he played for the junior team of Mora IK
  • in the 20-21 season, the center came back to Austria, joined the Red Bull Salzburg organization and scored his first goal right away in his ICE debut on February 5th, 2021 (3:2 @IBC)
  • the 20-year-old is now also a national team player and played 28 games for the reigning champions this year, scoring seven goals and two assists; Thaler scored three goals in the month of December

Luca Erne (2004) – BEMER Pioneers Vorarlberg

  • Luca Erne is the youngest player among the four nominees; until the middle of last week, the 18-year-old participated with Austria at the IIHF World Juniors
  • Erne was on the Pioneers' squad until leaving for Canada, playing 19 games for the league newcomer, five of them in December
  • recorded one assist in each in his last two games

Dominik Horvath (2001) – Hydro Fehérvár AV19

  • Dominik Horvath is the first goalkeeper to be nominated for this years's vote
  • the 21-year-old was born in Székesfehérvár and played his way through all of the Hungarian ICE team's youth programs
  • Horvath has a permanent spot in the team since this season and has played eight league games so far
  • in his three appearances in December, the Hungarian national team player posted two shutouts; in the entire season, he has a save percentage of 90.7%.

>> 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 2022, the first two months have been combined into one election. The five monthly winners will then compete in the 2023 playoffs for the title of "Young Star of the 2022/23 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 | Miha Bericic (HK SZ Olimpija)
Winner November | Patrick Söllinger (Steinbach Black Wings Linz)

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