Release from 10.08.2017
While EC Red Bull Salzburg lost their first game of the season at the Red Bulls Salute 2017 in Garmisch Partenkirchen (GER) against HC Sparta Praha 3:4 after Overtime, HC Orli Znojmo and EC VSV celebrated wins in their friendly games!
EC Red Bull Salzburg (without Trattnig, Hughes, Herburger) started the season at the Red Bulls Salute in Garmisch Partenkirchen against HC Sparta Praha. The Austrians quickly took the lead in a shorthanded situation. But the Czechs stayed unimpressed and quickly answered. Then the game went up and down with advantages for the Extraliga-club. In the end of the first perod the Czechs took the lead. But Salzburg got stronger minute by minute: Quickly after the re-start the Red Bulls just hit the post. On the other side Prag made the 3:1. But the Red Bulls did not give up and were rewarded with the equalizer thanks two goals from Manuel Latusa and Alex Aleardi. The Mozart Citiziens survived in the last period seven minutes shorthanded and so the game went into an Overtime. There Alex Reichenberg scored the game winner for the Extraliga-club after just 27 seconds. Salzburg will fight now on Saturday against SC Bern or EHC Red Bull München for place 3 at the Red Bulls Salute.
„Red Eagles“ win high-scoring game
In the second match between HC Orli Znojmo and BK Mlada Boleslav within 48 hours the „Red Eagles“ were the better team in the beginning of the game and were rewarded with a 2:0-lead thanks goals from Josef Zajic and David Bartos. But the guests from Bolesav did not give up and turned the result with three goals within just four minutes in the second period. The third part of the match was pretty wild, there were totally eight goals! Znojmo‘s Zajic and Boleslav‘s Mrazek performed hat-tricks. The hosts were back after 48 minutes already 4:6, but thanks three late goals the „Red Eagles“ celebrated their first win 2017/18 in the end. The winning goal was scored in the last two minutes of the match by Znojmo’s captain Jiri Beroun.
Blue & white Eagles succeeded with NHL-power
Without Herzog, Glenn, Stebih, Beach, Hickmott, Benjamin Petrik and Flick, but with the two NHL-players Michael Raffl and Michael Grabner and several youngsters EC VSV started into their first game 2017/18 against Lyon. After a few minutes the „Eagles“ took over the game and the pressure lead to a 2:0-lead thanks goals from Miha Verlic (13.) and Youngster Benjamin Lanzinger (14.). The guests from France came back quickly. In period 2 the Carinthians had a perfect start and quickly scored the 3:1 from David Shields. Short before the second break Trevor Gerling finished a solo and Lyon was back in the game again - 2:3. In the last period the NHL-cracks Grabner and Raffl had good chances for Villach. Finally Michael Raffl fixed the 4:2-win with an empty-net-goal in the last minute.
Red Bulls Salute at Garmisch Partenkirchen:
Thu, 10.08.2017: EC Red Bull Salzburg – HC Sparta Prag 3:4 n.V. (1:2,1:1,1:0,0:1)
Goals RBS: Harris (5./sh), Latusa (34.), Aleardi (49.)
Goals HCS: Zelanek (7.), Klimek (19.), Cernoch (23.), Reichenberg (61.)
Friendly games:
Thu, 10.08.2017: HC Orli Znojmo – BK Mlada Boleslav 7:6 (2:0,0:3,5:3)
spectators: 1.980
Goals Znojmo: Zajic (5., 44., 49.), Bartos (19.), Yellow Horn (47.), Pohl (50.), Beroun (59.)
Goals Boleslav: Najman (28.), Mrazek (30., 32., 47.), Latal (47.), Kotvan (48.).
Lineup HC Orli Znojmo: Schwarz (Halász) – Stehlík, Pohl, Zajíc, Skrbek, Biro, Hanousek, Šnajnar, Bořuta – Němec, Bartoš, Yellow Horn, Račuk, Plíhal, Csamangó, Lattner, Matuš, Guman, Beroun, Oščádal, Novák.
Thu, 10.08.2017: EC VSV - Lyon 4:2 (2:1, 1:1, 1:0)
Stadthalle Villach; Referees: GRUBER/STERNAT; spectators: 2.500
Goals VSV: Verlic (13./PP), Lanzinger (14.), Shields (21./PP), Raffl (60./EN)
Goals Lyon: Labrecque (15.), Gerling (39.)
Lineup EC VSV: Kickert, Schmidt - Bacher, Schlacher, Shields, Brunner, Verlic Winkler - Walter, Petrik N. “C“, Leiler, Wohlfahrt, Kromp, Platzer, Grabner, Sarauer, Alagic, Raffl, Antonitsch, Lanzinger, Sivec, Jennes