The ex-coach spoiled Bozen's home premiere

Tom Pokel made history in Bolzano. It was he who led the Foxes into the first season of the cross-border EBEL ten years ago and promptly won the title with them, to the astonishment of everyone. After his adventure with the White Reds, the American joined Straubing, where he is entering his seventh season this year. On Friday evening, Pokel returned to Bolzano with his Tigers for the Summer Classic tournament and won the test match 2-0.

The Foxes will therefore play the game for third place on Sunday from 15 p.m. and will meet either Fribourg-Gottéron (Switzerland) or Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia), who will face each other in the second semi-final on Saturday evening from 3 p.m.

The exhausting days are noticeable in Bolzano There wasn't much for the HCB to gain against the Straubing Tigers, who were cheered on by around 100 fans who had traveled with them. You could see that the last few days were exhausting for the Foxes (“I train hard,” quote coach Niklas Sundblad), and overall the opponents from the DEL often seemed a step faster and a bit more precise. Bolzano's five defensive players had to do extra work because Kris Pietroniro was sidelined with a hand injury and Josh Teves was still stuck in Canada. As a result, Val Gardena loanee Erwin De Nardin made some changes as the sixth defender.

But there were also some positive findings that evening. Above all, goalie Niklas Svedberg, who left a strong impression. At 1,86 meters tall, the Swede exudes a lot of confidence and pulled the 2000 or so fans out of their seats with some outstanding parades. The highlights Unglucklich A pass from behind the goal hits HCB goalie Svedberg's pad and rolls from there to Cole Fonstad, who only needs to push in at the second post (19th). And again… ... Straubing strikes shortly before the half-time siren. This time the HCB doesn't bring the disc out of its own third, Nicolas Mattinen shoots from a distance, Justin Scott makes a decisive deflection - 2-0 (40th). Big save Straubing's Tuomie Parker breaks through and appears alone in front of Svedberg, but he fishes the disc out of the air with an extremely strong reflex.

South Tyrol Summer Classic HCB Südtirol Alperia – Straubing Tigers 0:2 HSBC: Svedberg (Vallini); Vandane-Miglioranzi, Di Perna-Valentine, Parlett; Gazley-McClure-Halmo, Thomas-Felicetti-Lessio, Frank-Mantenuto-Frigo, Miceli-Alberga-Brunner Coach: Sunblad

Straubing: Miska (Bugl); Samuelsson-Braun, Klein-Mattinen, Zimmermann-Daschner, Kohl; Connolly-Bradley-Müller, Fonstad-Samaski-Lipon, Tuomie-Scott-Sheehy, Schönberger-Zengerle-Lampl Coach: Pokel

Gates: 0:1 Cole Fonstad (18.52), 0:2 Justin Scott (39.46)

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The rest of the program Saturday, August 26th at 20 p.m Fribourg-Gottéron (NLA) – Slovan Bratislava (SVK)

Sunday 27rd August 15:3 p.m.: Match for XNUMXth place 19 p.m.: Final

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The ex-coach spoiled Bozen's home premiere

On Friday evening, the new HC Bozen presented itself to its fans for the first time in the local Sparkasse Arena. However, there was a defeat in the test match against former master coach Tom Pokel.

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