Release from 10.08.2022

Red Bulls Salute preseason highlight this weekend

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The EC Red Bull Salzburg and Red Bull München invite to the Red Bulls Salute in Kitzbühel this weekend. The international top-class tournament will take place for the fourth time in a row in Tyrol. In addition, with the Steinbach Black Wings Linz, HK SZ Olimpija Ljubljana, HC Pustertal Wölfe and Moser Medical Graz99ers, four more teams of the win2day ICE Hockey League are in preseason action.

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The Red Bulls Salute starts on Saturday, August 13th, at 17:00 with the duel between Munich and Mountfield HK (CZE). At 20:30 two current champions, Salzburg and EV Zug (SUI), will meet in the second semifinal. The winners of the two semifinals will then meet in the final on Sunday, August 14th, at 19:00, preceded by the third-place match at 15:00. All four teams of the invitational tournament will participate in the Champions Hockey League next season.

The "Red Bulls Salute" was already held between 2005 and 2013 as an international invitation tournament for top European teams. From 2010, it served as the final tournament of the European Trophy, which was held for the last time in 2013 in Berlin. It then moved on to the newly formed Champions Hockey League.

In the summer of 2017, the tournament format returned and made a stop in Garmisch-Partenkirchen for its first new staging (2017 and 2018). In 2019, the traditional tournament has returned to Austria for the first time - in Kitzbühel - where it will be held for the fourth time this year and will once again offer fans top international hockey over two tournament days.

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Linz opens preseason against Ljubljana
Already tomorrow, Thursday, the Steinbach Black Wings Linz and HK SZ Olimpija will enter the preseason. Both teams will meet in the Linz AG Eisarena for a direct duel. For the Black Wings, it will be the first of a total of four test matches in front of the home crowd. Ljubljana, on the other hand, is not only preparing for the upcoming season in the ICE, but also for the Champions Hockey League adventure, in which the Slovenians will face TPS Turku, the Grizzlies Wolfsburg and EV Zug.

After the game in Linz, the preseason continues for Ljubljana on Saturday, August 13th. Then last season's quarterfinalist will face MAC Budapest.

Pustertal challenges Jesenice | Graz meets Bystrica
Both the HC Pustertal Wölfe and the Moser Medical Graz99ers will start the preseason with a home game on Friday, August 12th. Pustertal will face HDD SIJ Acroni Jesenice. With the Slovenians they duelled for many years in the Alps Hockey League. Graz will be facing HC Banska Bystrica. The Slovakian first league team failed in the quarter finals in the last season of the Extraliga.

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