Release from 11.01.2018
The Erste Bank Eishockey Liga continues with five games on Friday. Also on Saturday is fight for points at Klagenfurt and Linz. EC Red Bull Salzburg and EC-KAC have the chance to fix the Playoffs already in round 39. Plus: New players at Graz and Linz, where a Teddy Bear Toss takes place on Saturday.
Erste Bank Eishockey Liga, round 39:
Fri, 12.01.2018: HC Orli Znojmo – Dornbirn Bulldogs (18:30)
Referees: BALUSKA, PIRAGIC, Hribar, Nemeth.
Fri, 12.01.2018: Moser Medical Graz99ers – Fehervar AV19 (19:15)
Referees: FRIDRICH, GRUBER, Bärnthaler, Synek.
Fri, 12.01.2018: EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz – EC VSV (19:15)
Referees: GAMPER, SMETANA, Ettlmayr, Verworner.
Fri, 12.01.2018: EC Red Bull Salzburg – Vienna Capitals (19:15, SKY Sport Austria HD and Streaming-Dienst SKY Ticket live)
Referees: KELLNER, M. NIKOLIC, Kontschieder, Seewald.
Fri, 12.01.2018: HCB Südtirol Alperia – KHL Medvescak Zagreb (19:45)
Referees: LEMELIN, STOLC, Nothegger, Sparer.
Erste Bank Eishockey Liga, round 39:
Sat, 13.01.2018: EC-KAC – HC TWK Innsbruck “Die Haie” (15:00)
Referees: K. NIKOLIC, SIEGEL, Nagy, Soos.
Erste Bank Eishockey Liga, round 40:
Sat, 13.01.2018: EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz – Dornbirn Bulldogs (17:30)
Referees: BERNEKER, PIRAGIC, Hribar, Pardatscher.
Fri, 12.01.2018: HC Orli Znojmo – Dornbirn Bulldogs (18:30)
Referees: BALUSKA, PIRAGIC, Hribar, Nemeth.
>Dornbirn Bulldogs will play two games within 24 hours. The Vorarlberger visit Znojmo on Friday and Linz on Saturday.
>Znojmo forward Adam Miller has been given the permission to leave the club. The Czechs are searching for potential new additions to replace Miller.
>Both teams try to end bad series on Friday. The Dornbirn Bulldogs stayed without points in the last five rounds, the „Red Eagles“ lost their last four home-games and scored just five goals.
>The last five meetings were won by the home-club. The Austrians could leave Znojmo as the winner last time on January 7th 2017 or 369 days ago.
>In the first three season-clashed between HC Orli Znojmo and Dornbirn Bulldogs were scored already 25 goals, at least six goals per game.
Quotes:
Andre Lakos, defenseman HC Orli Znojmo: „I am looking forward to my first game, that´s what I am here for. Guys are in a bit of a hole right now, but we need to work together hard and all we need is one or two wins, our fortune can turn around."
Thomas Vallant, defenseman Dornbirn Bulldogs: “We expect two difficult games at Znojmo and Linz. We must be ready from the start, we have to play concentrated in the defense and we must take more shots on the net, to return on the winning-street!”
Fri, 12.01.2018: Moser Medical Graz99ers – Fehervar AV19 (19:15)
Referees: FRIDRICH, GRUBER, Bärnthaler, Synek.
>Moser Medical Graz99ers and Fehervar AV19 will face for the second time within five days on Friday at Graz. On Sunday the Hungarians beet the Styrians at home 4:1 and overtook the Mur Citizens in the ranking. All goals were scored by Hungarian players, successful were Csanad Erdely (2x), Aron Reisz and Captain Daniel Koger.
>With Moser Medical Graz99ers (9.) and Fehervar AV19 (8.) two neighbours in the standing will meet. The Styrians are ranked on place 9 with 49 points (17 wins) and the Devils are ranked on place 8 with 50 points (18 wins) from 38 games.
>Both teams fight for a Top 6 spot, which would mean the direct Playoff Qualification after round 44. The Hungarians miss five points for place 6, the Styrians miss six points or two wins. So far all three season-clashes were won by the home-teams.
>Moser Medical Graz99ers received - together with EC VSV - the highest number of goals (128), Fehervar AV19 scored the fewest number of goals (93).
>Bernard Fechtig joined the 99ers on loan. The Austrian defenseman started the season with Linz. On the other side Florian Iberer left Graz. Besides young defenseman Amadeus Egger will make his debut in Erste Bank Eishockey Liga against Fehervar AV19.
Quotes:
Doug Mason, Headcoach Moser Medical Graz99ers: „Fechtig made good games for Linz this season. He is a very good skater and can make the game fast.”
Hannu Järvenpää, Headcoach Fehervar AV19: „We have to play better. Our goal is to play in a high intensity and to upset the opponent with our committed and disciplined ice hockey.“
Fri, 12.01.2018: EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz – EC VSV (19:15)
Referees: GAMPER, SMETANA, Ettlmayr, Verworner.
>EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz will play two games within 24 hours. The Upper Austrians welcome EC VSV on Friday and Dornbirn Bulldogs on Saturday.
>EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz and EC VSV will face twice within one week. This Friday the two clubs meet at Linz, next Friday at Villach.
>EC VSV is the only team the Black Wings could not beat so far this season. The Eagles won the first two season clashes 6:5 and 5:1.
>The two teams showed different faces lately! The Upper Austrians won so far all four games in the year 2018. EC VSV on the other side was defeated three times in a row lately and received 16 goals.
>EC VSV received – together with Graz - the highest number of goals (128). The Black Wings on the other side scored so far the highest number of goals (135). Latley Brian Leber and Co. were also on Fire, in the year 2018 they made already 22 goals from four games.
Fri, 12.01.2018: EC Red Bull Salzburg – Vienna Capitals (19:15, SKY Sport Austria HD and Streaming SKY Ticket live)
Referees: KELLNER, M. NIKOLIC, Kontschieder, Seewald.
>Leader Vienna Capitals travels with good memories to Salzburg. The Champion got points from their last five games (three wins) at the Mozart City.
>EC Red Bull Salzburg lost their last three games. So far this season the Mozart Citizens were not defeated four times in a row. Making the turnaround the Red Bulls would have the chance to qualify for the Playoffs already: Therefore they must win against Vienna and they need the right results fom the games ZNO – DEC and G99 – AVS.
>The Vienna Capitals collected points from their last seven games (five wins).
>Home-strength will face road-power: The Red Bulls got points from their last seven home-games (six wins), while the Champion is the best team on the road.
>With EC Red Bull Salzburg and Vienna Capitals the two best Power Play teams will face each other.
Quotes:
Dominique Heinrich, defenseman EC Red Bull Salzburg: “We must find ways to win also the close games. We must play good defense and take advantage from our chances.“
Serge Aubin, Headcoach Vienna Capitals: “We expect another fight at Salzburg.”
Fri, 12.01.2018: HCB Südtirol Alperia – KHL Medvescak Zagreb (19:45)
Referees: LEMELIN, STOLC, Nothegger, Sparer.
>For both teams it is a very important game in the fight for a Top 6 spot and the direct Playoff qualification: While HCB Südtirol Alperia (10.) must win to stay in contact with the Top 6, KHL Medvescak Zagreb (6.) could secure their Top 6 spot with three points. In this moment the Foxes are seven points behind the Bears and place 6.
>HCB Südtirol Alperia is leading in the season-clash 2:1, the Foxes inter alia won the only clash at Bozen.
>Both teams had a good run lately: The Italians got points from all four games in the year 2018, lately they won three times in a row and scored 13 goals. The Bears also were on Fire lately: Medvescak was successful in the last two rounds and scored 12 times.
>Tyler Morley (MZA) and Mike Angelidis (HCB) were successful in the last two meetings of this clubs.
>The two teams have the same scoring-efficience of 8,79% and are ranked on place 9 in this statistic: The Foxes scored 102 goals from 1160 shots on goals and the Bears made 113 goals from 1285 shot.
Quotes:
Mike Halmo, player HCB Südtirol Alperia: “Every game is for us a "6 points" game. We're feeling confident, we're getting better day by day, we have just to adjust some mistakes we do, but we're on the right way. We have to forget the last wins and just concentrate on the game against Medvescak"!”
Garrett Noonan, player KHL Medvescak Zagreb: „When we continue to play like in our last games, we can reach a lot, even win the League. We have strong Forwards, a good defense and strong goalies.“
Erste Bank Eishockey Liga, round 39:
Sat, 13.01.2018: EC-KAC – HC TWK Innsbruck “Die Haie” (15:00)
Referees: K. NIKOLIC, SIEGEL, Nagy, Soos.
>EC-KAC could fix the Playoffs with three points against HC TWK Innsbruck „Die Haie“ on Saturday at home.
>Both teams will play two games within two days: On Sunday Klagenfurt will travel then to Szekesfehervar and the Sharks to Zagreb. Next Friday the two teams will meet already again at Innsbruck.
>The fifth best home-team (KAC) will face the fifth best road-team (HCI).
>HC TWK Innsbruck „Die Haie“ is the team of the hour. The Sharks won their last five games. Lately the Tyroleans also were in Fire and beat HC Orli Znojmo 9:2. Klagenfurt on the other side lost their last two games and scored just twice. Therefore the Red Jackets signed Forward Andrew Kozek.
>EC-KAC won their last four home-games against the Tyroleans. The Sharks got their last win at Klagenfurt on January 22nd 2016 or 720 days ago.
Quotes:
Martin Schumnig, defenseman EC-KAC: "Innsbruck has a strong offense, but has problems in the defense. We must make pressure with four lines and we must play more aggressiv infront of the net."
Andrew Clark, Forward HC TWK Innsbruck „Die Haie“: „We grew as a team in the last weeks and got better and better. We are a good team. We want to fix the Playoffs as soon as possible now.“
Erste Bank Eishockey Liga, round 40:
Sat, 13.01.2018: EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz – Dornbirn Bulldogs (17:30)
Referees: BERNEKER, PIRAGIC, Hribar, Pardatscher.
>A Teddy Bear Toss takes place at Linz on Saturday,
>For both teams it is the second game within 24 hours. The Black Wings welcome on Friday EC VSV, the Vorarlberger are guest at Znojmo.
>The Black Wings got points from their last nine meetings with the Dornbirn Bulldogs, seven times they left the ice as the winner.
>Brodie Reid scored in the last two meetings with Linz.
>US-Center Mark Naclerio starts at Linz his Europe-carees. The 25 years old Forward played so far this season for the Reading Royals in the ECHL und and scored there 28 points (10G/18A) from 36 games. Bernhard Fechtig switched from Linz to Graz.
Quotes:
Christian Perthaler, Manager EHC LIWEST Black Wings Linz: “Mark Naclerio is a young, hungry forward!”