3200 days later: Wolves on South Tyrol's ice hockey throne

On February 14, 2013, exactly 3200 days ago, the Wolves fans were last able to celebrate a derby victory against their arch-rivals from Bolzano. At that time, the black and yellow won 3-1. On Friday, 1860 fans, including 150 HCB supporters, gathered at the Intercable Arena to watch the next chapter of this eternal rivalry, which now spans 184 games, up close. It was an entertaining, powerful and sometimes emotionally charged duel, which the home team won 6-2 thanks to a unified performance.

To say that Helminen's handwriting is already visible would be an exaggeration. Nevertheless, he played a decisive role in the victory, as he put the ranks together extremely cleverly. For example, he promoted Raphael Andergassen into defense, who did extremely well with Ivan Althuber. He also put the strong Max Gerlach, who shone with two goals, alongside Jakob Stukel and Dante Hannoun, who caused the HCB big problems with their speed. While Gerlach hit the ground running, Pustertal's second signing, Greg Carey, remained pale. But that didn't matter that evening from HCP's point of view.

For their part, the Foxes didn't put in a bad performance, but they have to admit that they missed too many chances when the score was 2-2. They were also unlucky that their goalkeeper Kevin Boyle had a poor evening and was partly responsible for conceding three goals. The end result was a bit too high. The highlights After a brief scan, Greg Carey and Anthony Bardaro miserably missed a great opportunity. Shortly afterwards, Mike Halmo caused ecstasy among the traveling HCB fans (8th) with a remarkable solo effort. However, the hosts do not fall into a state of shock, on the contrary: First, Foxes goalie Kevin Boyle doesn't look good with a harmless backhand shot from Emil Kristensen (9th), then Zach Budish makes it 2-1 with a deflection in the power play (15th minute). ). The Foxes responded with a powerful backhand hit from Anton Bernard (29th) and were then unlucky with two shots at the post by Joseph Mizzi and Daniel Frank. Control of the game is in the hands of the Mason team, but the Wolves score the next goal: the lively Matthias Mantinger runs away from Dylan Di Perna and defeats Boyle with a backhand finish that shakes the Rienz curve (40th). Instead of an HCB storm run, the final section is followed by an HCP show run in which Max Gerlach becomes the protagonist. With a well-placed shot from the slot he nonchalantly made it 4:2 (45th), and with a deflection he even increased it to 5:2 (48th). Shane Hanna secured the final score of 6:2 with a Sunday shot in the power play. Now at the latest all the dams in the Intercable Arena are breaking (56th). HC Pustertal – HCB Südtirol Alperia 6:2 HCP : Sholl (Stoll); Hanna-Willcox, Caruso-Kristensen, Althuber-Andergassen, Baumgartner; Carey-Harju-Bardaro, Mantinger-Ikonen-Budish, Stukel-Gerlach-Hannoun, Ivan Deluca-Berger-Stephan Deluca, Lukas De Lorenzo Meo. Coach : helmins

Silver : Boyle (Fazio); Lowe-DeHaas, Plastino-Maione, Di Perna-Trivellato, Tauferer; Gazley-Findlay-Halmo, Frigo-Bernard-Frank, Alberga-Catenacci-Miceli, Mizzi-Pitschieler-Glück. Coach : Mason

Tore : 0:1 Halmo (7.13), 1:1 Kristensen (8.17), 2:1 Budish (14.09), 2:2 Bernard (28.34), 3:2 Mantinger (39.18), 4:2 Gerlach (45.00), 5 :2 Gerlach (47.33), 6:2 Hanna (55.21)

spectator : 1860 ICE Hockey League: Orli Znojmo – Dornbirn Bulldogs 2:1 aet Goals: 1-0 Prokes (38.44), 1-1 Hancock (48.29), 2-1 Culkin (60.31) Audience: 2304

Graz 99ers – Vienna Capitals 3-0 Goals: 1:0 Kainz (14.30), 2:0 Gordon (40.21), 3:0 Martin (59.39) Audience: 1492

Black Wings Linz – EC KAC 2:3 nP Goals: 0:1 Obersteiner (5.42), 0:2 Kraus (26.33), 1:2 Romig (34.11), 2:2 Gregorc (59.22); decisive penalty: Koch Audience: 1050

Olimpija Ljubljana – Red Bull Salzburg 2-7 Goals: 0:1 Baltram (00.59), 0:2 Loney (5.31), 0:3 Wukovits (5.56), 0:4 Schneider (19.10), 0:5 Wukovits (23.05), 1:5 Leclerc (24.09), 1:6 Raffl (32.46), 1:7 Baltram (51.01), 2:7 Piche (57.16) Audience: 1647

The table:

ICE Regular Season ICE	SP	TV	P
1. Klagenfurt	47	183:101	102
2. Fehervar	46	146:126	89
3. Salzburg	46	142:107	87
4. HCB South Tyrol	46	137:125	76
5. Linz	46	146:116	75
6. Villach	46	155:136	74
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3200 days later: Wolves on South Tyrol's ice hockey throne

Just arrived in Brunico - and already a derby hero: Neo-coach Raimo Helminen made a dream debut at HC Pustertal on Friday and won the duel against HCB Südtirol Alperia.

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