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The KAC continues in the semifinals in Mozart City. The red jackets, which are so strong on the road this year, have to go Tuesday night. prove it for the first time in the current semi-final series against EC Salzburg in the Volksgarten.
The key facts:
The semi-final series in the “Best-of-Seven” format, scheduled every other day, will have its first game on the ice in Salzburg on Tuesday evening. With a 1-0 lead behind them, EC-KAC travels to their fourth guest match of the season at EC Salzburg, the match starting at 7.15pm will be broadcast live on Sky Sport Austria. Since this second semi-final duel cannot be seen on free TV, the kac.at live ticker also provides information on the course of the game and, as usual, Radio Kärnten’s Carinthian ice hockey magazine reports directly from the living room.
Start point:
EC-KAC won the first match of the semi-final series against EC Salzburg on their own court with 4: 2 on Sunday night and thus achieved the first of the four victories necessary to advance to the final. In the past, a 1-0 lead in play-off matchups between these two clubs had only limited significance, with the team that won the first game only prevailed in three of the previous seven series. In direct duels with the Bulls, the Red Jackets can show a very positive season balance, after seven games they add 15: 6 points and 27:18 goals. The Klagenfurt team remains the most successful away team in the league, winning 18 of their 26 overseas games so far this season.
As in the (finally successful) quarter-finals, EC Salzburg now faces a 0: 1 deficit in the semi-finals. On their own ice, things were pretty uneven for the Bulls over the course of the current season: Although there were more wins (15) than losses (12), the 55.6 percent winning percentage has been as low as since the club’s campaign. inaugural season the first division (2004/05) no longer. Against Rotjacken, Mozartstädter lost two of their previous three home games: after a 4-2 win in mid-October, they lost to Klagenfurt in late January with 1: 3 and in mid-February with 2: 5.
The game numbers:
2 – EC-KAC won their last two away games in Salzburg. So far there have only been three rojiblancos successes in a row in the Volksgarten: in the 2007/08 season and in the transition between the regular season and the 2009/10 playoffs.
4 – With a +4 rating, Thomas Vallant currently has the best over / under balance of all the EC-KAC team players in the playoffs. Just as remarkable: In his six appearances this season against EC Salzburg with a total time on ice of 96:50 minutes, the self-made player has yet to concede a single goal on ice.
5 – Matt Fraser and Nick Petersen are the Red Jackets’ two most consistent scorers in the previous playoffs: the two Canadians scored points in five of the six games, only in the second game of the quarterfinals against Villach did they each come out with empty hands. Overall, Fraser has nine points (six goals, three assists), Petersen eight (three hits, five assists).
6 – EC Salzburg opened each of its last six playoff series with a loss, regardless of season. The Bulls last won an opening game in the 2018 semi-finals against what was then EHC Linz.
25.9 – After six playoff games, the Red Jackets are holding on to seven power play hits (27 times). The EC-KAC was able to increase its majority game success rate from 19.7 percent in the basic round to 25.9 percent in the postseason.
71.1 – The Red Jackets performed much more accurately in game one of the semi-final series than EC Salzburg. While the Klagenfurters actually scored 27 – or 71.1 percent – of 38 Uniform Strength attempts, the bulls (at 15 of 35) only scored 42.9 percent.
The opponent:
EC Salzburg have reached the semi-finals for the eighth time in the last eight (full) seasons, and the Bulls have been by far the most successful playoff team in the competition since their promotion to Austria’s top division (2003). With EC-KAC, Salzburg had mostly close and close postseason matchups in the past, of the 45 singles playoff matches so far, 23 went to Mozartstadt and 22 to Carinthia.
In the first semi-final matchup, head coach Matt McIlvane forced the rotation of ten forwards, Tim Harnisch and Paul Huber had less than five minutes of ice time, Yannic Pilloni was only used on penalties. Top scorer Thomas Raffl missed a goal for the first time in his fifth game of the season against Klagenfurt, the offense was created primarily by imported duo Rick Schofield and Jack Skille, who made no fewer than 21 goal attempts on Sunday, but only nine of them actually made brought housing. In general, however, Sunday’s game turned out to be very even, in sequences of “five against five” both teams had almost the same amount of possession of the disc (17:41 and 17:43 minutes in favor of the bulls).
Tuesday’s second semi-final match is the 146 between EC Salzburg and EC-KAC in league history. The all-time record speaks to 78:67 wins for the Red Bull club, which despite two recent home losses to Klagenfurt mainly dominated on their own track (47:25 wins).
Personal information:
In addition to long-term injuries to David Fischer, Paul Postma and Dennis Sticha, which are definitely unavailable, EC-KAC is likely to miss another defender in this away match in Salzburg: Steven Strong was injured after the foul about him. in Sunday’s game, his appearance on Tuesday was unlikely. The final decision will be made by the medical department and the player himself on the day of the match. The first replacement candidate in the KAC defense is Michael Kernberger. No changes are foreseen for the red jackets in the goalkeeper position or in the storm.
The comment:
“We took the next step on Sunday and improved our game compared to the quarter-finals. The game was very close and even, nothing else awaits us in the first leg on Tuesday. Salzburg came out of the dressing room with force in the first and second third, I think it will be like that again. So we have to be prepared from the beginning, because it is known that we face very strong rivals. (Nick Petersen, EC-KAC forward)
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03.29.2021
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