Release from 21.12.2022

Victories for Jesenice and Bregenzerwald

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HDD SIJ Acroni Jesenice extended their lead in the Alps Hockey League standings on Wednesday. The Slovenians earned a 3:1 road victory at EC Die Adler Stadtwerke Kitzbühel. In addition, EC Bregenzerwald also decided the ninth AHL duel with Steinbach Steel Wings Linz to their favor. With a 4:2 home win, the team from Vorarlberg improved to ninth place.

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Jesenice set the tone in Kitzbühel from the start. In the 17th minute Erik Svetina put the guests in the lead. After the restart, the hosts got into the game better, but the league leader from Slovenia still controlled the action and scored two more goals: Eric Pance and Andrey Galushkin made it 3:0. The Tyroleans, who had to do without several players due to illness, only managed the consolation goal by Patrick Bolterle in the final period. Jesenice thus also won the second duel of the season and extended their lead in the standings with the 3:1 victory.

Only four days after the defeat against Jesenice, EC Bregenzerwald returned to the winning track. In their home game against Linz, the Vorarlberg team took the lead after just four minutes through Fabian Ranftl, but Geoff Kitt equalized for the visitors before the end of the first period. Also in the middle period, the Linz team was able to equalize the lead of the hosts, but in the 35th minute Benjamin Winkler scored his first goal of the season to make it 3:2. This time Bregenzerwald did not allow another equalizer, two minutes before the end Rene Tröthan scored to make it 4:2. The Vorarlberg team thus also won the ninth AHL duel with the Steel Wings and moved up to ninth place in the standings.

Alps Hockey League | 21.12.2022:
EC Bregenzerwald – Steel Wings Linz 4:2 (1:1,2:1,1:0)
Referees: HOLZER, RUETZ, Eisl, Tschrepitsch.
Goals 1:0 ECB Ranftl F. (04:01 / Lehtonen W. ,Lipsbergs R. / EQ), 1:1 SWL Kitt G. (13:31 / Rappold K. ,Noreika E. / EQ), 2:1 ECB Matzka M. (23:37 / Tschofen M. ,Tröthan R. / PP), 2:2 SWL Mayrhofer M. (26:41 / Grasser B. ,Mosaad B. / EQ), 3:2 ECB Winkler B. (34:48 / Kostelac N. ,Metzler M. / EQ), 4:2 ECB Tröthan R. (57:57 / Lehtonen W. / EQ)

EC Die Adler Stadtwerke Kitzbühel – HDD SIJ Acroni Jesenice 1:3 (0:1,0:2,1:0)
Referees: KUMMER, WUNTSCHEK, Hesina, Seewald J.
Goals 0:1 JES Svetina E. (16:29 / Pance E. ,Polcs R. / EQ), 0:2 JES Pance E. (33:56 / Svetina E. ,Polcs R. / EQ), 0:3 JES Galushkin A. (37:52 / Blomberg N. ,Ulamec L. / PP), 1:3 KEC Bolterle P. (42:21 / Skultety A. ,Szabad K. / PP)