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KJÀC’s home game against the Vienna Capitals, the new edition of the 2019 final series, is the hit of Sunday day der bet at home ice hockey league.
THE KEY DATA:
After two straight away games, EC-KAC will play its 15th game of the season in the home-betat ICE Hockey League again on the local ice: Sunday afternoon (start of the game: 4.30pm) the Red jackets will host the capitals of Vienna at the Klagenfurt town hall.
START POINT:
EC-KAC (14 season games, 8 wins) have been looking for a consistent performance in recent days and weeks, mixed appearances (in Dornbirn and Bratislava) alternated with very strong performances (against Salzburg and Graz). The red jackets have already found their stability seemingly on their own: in the last five home games, they have scored 13 out of 15 possible points, the most recent against Fehérvár AV19 (5: 0) and EC Salzburg (4: 1) in City Hall. . Klagenfurt currently ranks third in the ICE Hockey League table and fifth in terms of points per game.
The Vienna Capitals (12 games this season, 8 wins) are currently one point behind the Red Jackets in the rankings, but have played two games less than the record champions. After two away losses (at Linz and Villach) in a row, the Viennese were able to win again on Friday, defeating their namesake teammates from Bratislava 3-1. The capital club, once again, is doing well in terms of play, with the Capitals firing more shots on goal than their respective opponents in eleven of the twelve games this season. However, Vienna has had its problems with the red jackets in the recent past: with Cameron’s troops leading 2-1 in the 2019 final series, they were only able to win two of nine games with EC-KAC. and not a single one. Get all three points.
THE GAME NUMBERS:
1.93 – In the duel between EC-KAC and the Vienna capitals, the best and currently third best defense of the ICE Hockey League will face each other on Sunday: Klagenfurt conceded 1.93 goals per game in the match, Vienna 2.17. In the middle, HCB Südtirol (leading the table based on average points) is ranked with 2.11 strokes lost per game.
6 – Rotjacken have won each of the last six home games against Vienna Capitals, five of them, all except 3: 2 after overtime on April 24, 2019, which meant the title win, in regular time. The goal difference over the course of this streak was 21:10.
11 – Now eleven points (five goals, six assists) Nick Petersen continues to lead the Red Jackets team’s internal scoring standings, but last year’s KAC top scorer, Thomas Hundertpfund, has caught up with him (four hits, seven assists). He is followed by veteran Thomas Koch with ten points, Rok Tičar and Manuel Ganahl with nine.
46 – On Sunday, for the first time in more than seven and a half years, April 5, 2013, when EC-KAC won the 30th championship title on their own court, there will be no Vienna-born players in the lineup of the red jacket in a duel with the capitals of Vienna. In each of the 46 games since then, at least one star from the federal capital had run for the Klagenfurters.
333 – Thomas Koch’s winning goal in the away game in Graz on Friday was exactly the 333rd goal scored by the center forward in Austria’s top division. It’s been 20 years and 318 days between his first and last goals at the moment, no other active player in the league has more than 268 goals in his career in the competition (Brian Lebler).
THE OPPONENT:
The Vienna Capitals have been among the league’s absolute best teams for years, in each of the last eight seasons they ranked in the top half of the table at the end of the regular season, in seven cases even below three. first. This season, the Viennese are once again at the forefront, in the classification according to the counters entered per league match, only HCB Südtirol (2.44) is currently ahead of the caps (2.00). Around the championship break, the capital club celebrated five wins in a row, but recently the engine stuttered a bit in away games with the latecomers at the table in Villach (1: 4) and Linz (1: 3).
The top scorer within the team has not changed from newcomer Colin Campbell, who, however, has struggled with his form in recent weeks: He racked up twelve of his 15 points in the first five games of the season, and since then only he has scored three points in seven games. In total, Vienna only offers seven import players this year, resulting in additional playing times for local players. They restore the trust placed in them with good performances: in the absence of the injured Caps light figure Rafael Rotter, Vienna-born players such as center Ali Wukovits, former forward Marco Richter or defender Dominic Hackl played in the foreground.
The capitals of Vienna, which were accepted into the competition one year after the founding of the new league, have dueled with EC-KAC since 2001 a total of 133 times, with 70:63 wins and 412: 406 goals. , the Klagenfurters are just ahead of the all-time record. In the current ICE season, the two teams meet on Sunday for the first time, but they already met in preseason: in mid-September Vienna clearly won 7: 3 on their own ice, Alexander Cijan from Klagenfurt scored a hat trick for the hats.
THE STAFF:
All the players who made up the lineup in the last three games are also available for Sunday’s game against Vienna. The team is expected to be strengthened by Fredrik Eriksson, who was able to train thoroughly on Saturday, but the decision to play again will only be made on game day. The Red Vests will continue to be trained by the injured David Fischer and Andrej Hočevar, Johannes Bischofberger, who is not yet training, and Niki Kraus are still missing.
THE COMMENT:
“On Friday we scored three important points with a good game over 60 minutes and finally we scored some goals, which was very positive for our confidence. Now another strong opponent awaits in Vienna. We’ve already prepared for the Capitals with video studios, we’ve been able to incorporate the knowledge into today’s training, and now it’s important to bring it into the game. I think we will also put in a good performance on Sunday, then we will have the best chance of getting more points. “(Rok Tičar, EC-KAC forward)
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28.11.2020
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