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Race to Young Star of January is on - Vote now

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For the fourth 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 January vote:

Fabian Hochegger (2001) – EC-KAC

  • Fabian Hochegger, ranked third in last month's voting, is a native of Klagenfurt and has always played for the "Rotjacken" except for two engagements in the Canadian QMJHL for Drummondville Voltigeurs
  • already in the past season he got 43 ICE appearances (2G|4A)
  • this year Hochegger already played 39 games for the first team, scoring eight goals and seven assists
  • in his ten January games the forward scored four goals and provided two assists

Tim Harnisch (2001) – EC Red Bull Salzburg

  • the 19-year-old native of Lower Austria recommended himself for the first team via the Red Bulls' farm team and made his ICE debut in the 19-20 season
  • since then, the center, who now plays for the Austrian national team, has been used at least 30 times per season
  • his first ICE goal came in January 2021 (in a 3-2 @HCB)
  • this season Harnisch played 39 games; in January he played eleven games, scoring two goals and dishing one assists

Yannik Lebeda (2002) – BEMER Pioneers Vorarlberg

  • Yannik Lebeda received his hockey skills at VEU Feldkirch before playing for Küsnacht and Zurich in Switzerland as a youth player
  • at the beginning of the 2019-20 season, the 20-year-old returned to Vorarlberg, then played the next three seasons primarily in the Alps Hockey League
  • with the entry of the BEMER Pioneers Vorarlberg into the win2day ICE Hockey League he took his chance and played 39 games so far this season
  • in his ten January games he gave two assists

Senna Peeters (2002) – HC TIWAG Innsbruck - Die Haie

  • the Belgian-born player joined the Red Bull Academy at the beginning of the 2016-17 season via Krefeld; after two seasons he moved to the USA and later to Canada
  • played there for three seasons - except for a short stint in Rögle's junior program (20-21)
  • in the last three years Peeters was always part of the Austrian U20 national team
  • with Innsbruck, the 20-year-old made his ICE debut; in his 40 games so far this season, Peeters has scored five goals and handed out eight assists; in January, he finished with one goal and three assists
  • Peeters was already on the September/October voting and finished in third place

>> 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)
Winner January | Dominik Horvath (Hydro Fehérvár AV19)

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