Release from 14.03.2022

Start into the quarterfinals

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The Alps Hockey League kicks off the 2022 playoffs on Tuesday, with the quarterfinal series being played in best-of-five mode. The top-seeded team of Migross Supermercati Asiago Hockey will face the Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan. While Rittner Buam will host S.G. Cortina Hafro in another intra-Italian pairing, there is also an Austrian encounter with EHC Lustenau against EK Zeller Eisbären. The fourth duel will be between HDD SIJ Acroni Jesenice and HC Gherdeina valgardena.it.

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Alps Hockey League, quarterfinals 1:
Tue, 15.03.2022, 19:00: HDD SIJ Acroni Jesenice (2) - HC Gherdeina valgardena.it (6)
Referees: HLAVATY, REZEK, Snoj, Weiss

Jesenice against Val Gardena will be a rematch of last year's quarterfinal series, when the Slovenians won 3:0. For the South Tyroleans, who were the last team to qualify on Saturday, the quarterfinal exit was still the best result in their AHL history so far. Jesenice, on the other hand, always made it to the semifinals, but the "Steelers" always failed to make it to the final. Jesenice won the two duels so far this season, the home game even clearly with 10:1. From nine games in Jesenice, Gardena could win twice so far.

Tue, 15.03.2022, 19:00: EHC Lustenau (4) - EK Die Zeller Eisbären (7)
Referees: HOLZER, RUETZ, Kainberger, Wimmler | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<

EHC Lustenau, as the fourth-placed team after the regular season, has home radvantage, but the Vorarlbergers could not choose their quarterfinal opponent. Now they play the Zeller Eisbären, who beat the Red Bull Hockey Juniors in the pre-playoffs. While the Zeller qualified for the quarterfinals for the first time in their fifth AHL season, Lustenau is in the postseason for the fourth time - the Lions have already made it to the semifinals twice. So far this season, Lustenau and Zell am See have met twice. Both games were won by the EHC. At home, the Vorarlbergers remained successful with 4:3 in overtime.

Tue, 15.03.2022, 20:00: Rittner Buam (3) - S.G. Cortina Hafro (5)
Referees: HUBER, LAZZERI, Cristeli, Eisl | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<

The Rittner Buam will meet Cortina in the quarterfinals. The duel has already taken place once in the playoffs: In the first AHL season, the two teams faced each other in the semifinals, with eventual champion Ritten winning the series 3:1. However, the semifinal appearance was also Cortina's biggest AHL success to date. This season, the two teams have already faced each other five times (4 AHL duels, once in the final tournament of the Italian championship), the Buam won four times. In the AHL, Cortina has already played twelve times in Klobenstein, where the home side has had the upper hand nine times.

Tue, 15.03.2022, 20:30: Migross Supermercati Asiago Hockey (1) - Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan (8)
Referees: BAJT, MOSCHEN, Arlic, De Zordo | >> PPV-LIVESTREAM <<

As the top-seeded team after the regular season, Asiago had the first pick for the quarterfinals. The 2018 AHL champions chose Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan, who beat Fassa in the pre-playoff. In their four postseason appearances, Asiago made it to the final three times, the only time in 2019 they were eliminated in the quarterfinals (0:4 against Jesenice). Asiago and Sterzing have already met once in the quarterfinals, in 2018 the red-yellow team won 4:0. In their second quarterfinal appearance Sterzing were beaten by Ljubljana last year (0:3). This season, Asiago won both duels by a three-goal margin (5:2 and 4:1). Sterzing have only won one of their ten AHL games at the Odegar Stadium so far.

Photo: Vito de Romeo

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