The HCB dares to restart

The two biggest changes first of all: Jakub Sedlacek will make his debut in the HCB uniform on Friday and will replace the injured Matt Climie between the posts in the next two months. The last newcomer, the young Italian-Canadian Stephen Pietrobon, will also make his debut. He takes the place of Anton Bernard, who has to miss three weeks due to a training injury. Austin Smith and Travis Oleksuk, however, should be back in the squad for the two upcoming games. The latter sat out training on Friday, as did Smith, who has been complaining for weeks about the after-effects of a mild concussion.

Two new ones make their debut HCB coach Pat Curcio will also need all his strength to be able to stand up to the fourth-placed team from the city of Mozart. Coach Greg Poss' team has won five of the last six games, the last one before the international break with a 3-0 win against Klagenfurt. Then came the narrow elimination in the Champions Hockey League against the Växjö Lakers from Sweden. The only match of this season between Red Bull and Foxes ended with a 2-1 win for the Bolzano team in the Salzburg Volksgarten. Now they want to follow up with their next win at home. The game in the Eiswelle starts at 19.45:XNUMX p.m.

Gander: “Finally playing to our strengths” Less than 48 hours later, the next explosive league game will be played on Galvani Street. The Tyrolean rival HC Innsbruck will be the opponent. The Foxes have to pay particular attention to the Haie's top scorer, ex-Bolzano player Andrew Yogan, who is in first place in the points standings with 25 points (8 goals, 17 assists). Rob Pallin also has two more extremely dangerous cracks at his disposal: Andrew Clark (22 points) and Mitch Wahl (21 points). The people of Bolzano, on the other hand, respond with the usual “triumvirate” consisting of Austin Smith, Alex Petan and Mike Halmo (23, 22 and 21 points).

“Two challenging games await us,” explains Michele Marchetti. “We are aware that we are going through a difficult time, but we want to fight back and collect important points.” Markus Gander agrees: “We definitely have to start transferring our potential to the ice surface. It's time to finally play to our strengths. We have trained very well in the last few days and we will give everything to get two wins.”

The EBEL encounters from the long weekend: Thu. 16 November Innsbruck - Dornbirn 4:1 Fri. 17 November Vienna - Fehervar (19.15 p.m.) Graz - Villach (19.15 p.m.) Linz - Klagenfurt (19.15 p.m.) Bolzano - Salzburg (19.45 p.m.) Sun. 19 November Bolzano - Innsbruck (16 p.m.) Vienna - Znojmo (16 p.m.) Villach - Fehervar (17.30 p.m.) Dornbirn - Linz (17.30 p.m.) Salzburg - Graz (17.45 p.m.) The table: 1. UPC Vienna Capitals 43 points (-1 game) 2. EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz 33 3. EC Klagenfurter AC 33 (+1 game) 4. HC TWK 'Die Haie' Innsbruck 29 (+1 game) 5. EC Red Bull Salzburg 27 6. KHL Medvescak Zagreb 27 7. EC Villacher SV 26 8. HC Orli Znojmo 25 (+1 game) 9. Moser Medical Graz99ers 23 10. EC Dornbirn Bulldogs 21 11. Fehervar AV19 21 12. HCB South Tyrol Alperia 19

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The HCB dares to restart

Both on the ice and behind the scenes, everything was turned during the international break. The recently troubled HCB Südtirol wants to present the result on Friday against Salzburg and two days later in the derby against Innsbruck. Both duels will be played in the ice wave.

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