Wipptal star Franco Sproviero celebrated a home victory on Saturday evening. © Daniele Frusone

Val Gardena awakens the dead – Broncos beat Gamsstädter

Cortina has lost eight games across all competitions. On Saturday evening, HC Gherdëina ended this streak. The Furie suffered a heavy defeat against Cortina, just as the Unterland Cavaliers did against Bregenzerwald.

24 January 2026

From: cst

Six losses in the Alps Hockey League, two more at the IHL's "Milano Finals" in Milan. Cortina had recently been little more than cannon fodder. On Saturday, Val Gardena turned the tables and let Cortina devour them for dinner, like a can of spinach in Popeye's game – the final score was 1-5.

Finnish player Oskari Kalajanniska and Chad Pietroniro each scored two goals between the 20th and 43rd minutes, after HCG had held the score to a 1-1 tie almost until the end of the first period. Playing before a crowd of only around 250 spectators, Gröden was particularly outmatched at even strength. While they successfully converted all of their penalties, Cortina conceded five goals at even strength. However, Gröden failed to capitalize on Cortina's ten penalty minutes, and even their superior shot count (44-29 in favor of HCG) did little to help.

Home win in Sterzing – Unterland team suffers defeat in Vorarlberg

While bottom-of-the-table Unterland had no answer against Bregenzerwald (1:6), the Wipptal Broncos celebrated a home victory. Just as Austria's downhill skiers had nothing to cheer about in Saturday's Hahnenkamm downhill race, the ice hockey players from Kitzbühel also suffered a defeat. Luciano Zandegiacomo's goal (44th minute) secured the 3:2 home win in Sterzing.

Unterland goalkeeper Tizian Giovannelli was under constant fire against Bregenzerwald.

AlpsHL: Saturday's games

Jesenice - Asiago 4:5 nP
1:0 Svetina (10.29), 1:1 Rigoni (12.04), 2:1 Bohinc (15.03), 2:2 Calisti (21.08), 2:3 Traversa (25.26), 3:3 Slivnik (27.35), 4:3 Sojer (51.39), 4:4 Valentini (57.51); decisive penalty: Valentini
Audience: 480

Wipptal - Kitzbühel 3:2
0:1 Engelhart (12.15), 1:1 Kruselburger (19.32), 2:1 Hofer (21.29), 2:2 Frowis (29.50), 3:2 Zandegiacomo (43.17)
Audience: 560

Bregenzerwald - Unterland 6:1
1:0 Rantanen (20.50), 1:1 Potsinok (28.52), 2:1 König (34.04), 3:1 Metzler (39.50), 4:1 Grasser (41.44), 5:1 Haiböck (43.27), 6:1 Rantanen (56.27)
Audience: 985

Zell am See - Salzburg II 3:0
1:0 Zauner (12.01), 2:0 Huard (18.18), 3:0 Jennes (27.00)
Audience: 2.900

Cortina - Val Gardena 5:1
1:0 Sanna (6.35), 1:1 Moncada (18.32), 2:1 Kalajanniska (19.12), 3:1 Kalajanniska (27.51), 4:1 Chad Pietroniro (40.35), 5:1 Chad Pietroniro (43.40)
Audience: 250

	SP	G	U	V	TV	P
1. Salzburg II	34	22	0	12	133:86	70
2. Zell am See	34	23	0	11	115:90	67
3. KHL Sisak	33	22	0	11	113:85	64
4. HC Asiago	34	21	0	13	131:115	61
5. Kitzbuhel	34	20	0	14	121:101	55
6. Bregenzerwald	34	18	0	16	107:115	54
7. Rittner Buam	33	17	0	16	99:86	52
8. Wipptal Broncos	33	16	0	17	95:101	50
9. SG Cortina	34	15	0	19	92:107	42
10. HC Gherdëina	34	13	0	21	99:132	42
11. HC Meran	34	12	0	22	95:111	39
12. Jesenice	33	13	0	20	98:110	38
13. Underland Cavaliers	34	7	0	27	80:139	23