Release from 15.02.2025
In the Alps Hockey League, EK Die Zeller Eisbären celebrated their third win in three Master Round games on Saturday evening. The leaders prevailed 2:1 at S.G. Cortina Hafro, giving them a six-point lead over their closest rivals SIJ Acroni Jesenice, who celebrated a 6:3 win against the Rittner Buam SkyAlps. Meanwhile, HK RST Pellet Celje and HC Meran/o Pircher are at the top of the qualification groups.
League leaders EK Die Zeller Eisbären secured a narrow 2:1 away win at S.G. Cortina Hafro. While Zell am See celebrated its third win in three games, Cortina suffered its third defeat. The Italians are bottom of the table with zero poinst and are already twelve points behind the “Polar Bears”. Zell am See took a 2:0 lead after 28 minutes, shortly afterwards Cortina made it 1:2, but they were unable to equalize.
Jesenice inflicts another defeat on Ritten
In the second game of the Master Round, defending champions Rittner Buam SkyAlps lost 3:6 at SIJ Acroni Jesenice. It was the second defeat in a row for the “Buam”, which means they are now only in fourth place in the table. In a very entertaining game, especially in the final period, the new runners-up from Slovenia were 2:0 ahead after 26 minutes. At the end of the second period, the score was 2:1. After the restart, things got really turbulent: Jesenice initially pulled away comfortably to 4:1, but the victory they thought they had secured was almost given away, as Ritten came back to 3:4 with four minutes to go. However, two late goals in the last 20 seconds meant that Jesenice still ended up with a clear victory on paper, celebrating their first win in the third game of the Master Round.
Victories for Sterzing and Meran in Qualification Round A
In Qualification Round A, the Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan won 4:0 against Red Bull Hockey. While it was the second win for the South Tyroleans in their third game, it was the third defeat for the Juniors. HC Meran/o Pircher remain top of the table. The “Eagles” celebrated a narrow 5:4 away win at HC Gherdeina valgardena.it. It was their third win in three games, putting them two points ahead of the Broncos in the table.
Sterzing in turn took the lead after 16 goalless minutes through Connor Sanvido in the powerplay. It then took until the 37th minute before Fabian Hackhofer increased the lead to 2:0, also in overtime. The Broncos scored the remaining two goals in the 47th and 54th minutes. It was the third shutout of the season for the WSV goalkeeper Dominik Groh, who saved all 27 shots.
Victories for Sisak and Bregenzerwald in Qualification Round B
In Qualification Round B, everything is still very close. HK RST Pellet Celje are in the lead with eight points, followed by KHL Sisak with six points. The Slovenians lost 3-2/SO at home to EC Bregenzerwald on Saturday. The team from Vorarlberg follows in third place with five points. Sisak also celebrated a 4-1 away win at the Hockey Unterland Cavaliers, who are bottom of the table with three points. After the score was 1:1 after 20 minutes in Neumarkt, the league newcomers from Croatia pulled away to 3:1 in the second period. Shortly before the end of the game, Vlastimil Dostalek scored his second goal of the evening to make the final score.
In the second game of the group, Celje only scored 95 seconds before the end of the final period through Mark Sojer to take a 2:1 lead. However, Bregenzerwald came back into the game and equalized 43 seconds before the end through Yannik Lebeda. In the end, the game went to a shootout, in which only Bregenzerwald defender Richard Schlögl was able to convert his penalty.
Alps Hockey League
Sa, 15.02.2025:
Master Round:
SIJ Acroni Jesenice - Rittner Buam SkyAlps 6:3 (1:0, 1:1, 4:2)
Referees: HLAVATY, LEBEN, Preiser, Weiss. | Spectators: 850
Goals JES: 1:0 Urukalo Z. (10.), 2:0 Selan M. (26./PP1), 3:1 Sturm J. (42.), 4:1 Jenko J. (48.), 5:3 Urukalo Z. (60./EN), 6:3 Selan M. (60.)
Goals RIT: 2:1 Lobis A. (31.), 4:2 Fink K. (55.), 4:3 Lobis A. (57.)
S.G. Cortina Hafro - EK Die Zeller Eisbären 1:2 (0:1, 1:1, 0:0)
Referees: LESNIAK, OREL, Javornik, Telesklav. | Spectators: 436
Goal SGC: 1:2 Saha M. (32.)
Goals EKZ: 0:1 Stiegler M. (12.), 0:2 Wilfan M. (28.)
Qualification Round A:
Wipptal Broncos Weihenstephan - Red Bull Hockey Juniors 4:0 (1:0, 1:0, 2:0)
Referees: BENVEGNU, STEFENELLI, Fleischmann, Ilmer. | Spectators: 537
Goals WSV: 1:0 Sanvido C. (17./PP1), 2:0 Hackhofer F. (37./PP1), 3:0 Zandegiacomo L. (47.), 4:0 Galimberti T. (54.)
HC Gherdeina valgardena.it - HC Meran/o Pircher 4:5 (1:0, 0:2, 3:3)
Referees: LEGA, SORAPERRA, Formaioni, Pace. | Spectators: 782
Goals GHE: 1:0 Oksanen E. (12./PP1), 2:2 McGowan B. (41.), 3:2 Meneghini A. (43.), 4:5 Deluca S. (59.)
Goals HCM: 1:1 Fuchs J. (33.), 1:2 Tomasini P. (37./PP1), 3:3 Pietroniro M. (43.), 3:4 Madsen P. (47.), 3:5 Fuchs J. (51./PP1)
Qualification Round B:
HK RST Pellet Celje - EC Bregenzerwald 2:3/SO (1:0, 0:1, 1:1, 0:0)
Referees: BULOVEC, SNOJ, Arlic, Jeram. | Spectators: 200
Goals HKC: 1:0 Zezelj G. (9.), 2:1 Sojer M. (59./PP1)
Goals ECB: 1:1 Ossipov R. (40./PP1), 2:2 Lebeda Y. (60.), 2:3/SO Schlögl R. (65./PS)
Hockey Unterland Cavaliers - KHL Sisak 1:4 (1:1, 0:2, 0:1)
Referees: MOSCHEN, PINIE, Abeltino, Fecchio. | Spectators: 253
Goal CAV: 1:1 Curti A. (15.)
Goals SIS: 0:1 Burgar N. (2.), 1:2 Dostalek V. (34.), 1:3 Malenica N. (37.), 1:4 Dostalek V. (59./EN/SH1)