Anton Bernard pulls the HCB out of the crisis

In front of only 1.870 spectators (season minus crowd), HC Bozen presented itself much better than in previous games: the Foxes acted much more confidently at the back, all four lines at the front went at a high pace and carried out aggressive forechecking. And that despite, or perhaps precisely because, Coach Suikkanen rebuilt the offensive blocks due to the loss of Mike Blunden. Alex Petan moved to the front line, new signing Riley Brace played alongside Matti Kuparinen and Luca Frigo.

Riley Brace largely kept a low profile in his debut in white and red.

However, the “South Tyrolean line” around Daniel Frank, Ivan Deluca and Anton Bernard caused the most danger over long stretches. It was the latter who held out the stick for a Deluca shot in the tenth minute, giving Villach goalie Dan Bakala the disadvantage for the first time. For the HCB captain it was the long-awaited first goal of the season. Before the first break, Alex Petan followed up: He intercepted a pass in front of the visitors' goal and skilfully lifted the puck into the top corner with a backhander.

In the middle section it continued in the same pace, Bozen had control of the game, but only sporadically threatened to score. There was no sign of Villach at all. The Carinthians were even lucky not to have fallen further behind when Brett Findlay failed to hit the outside post halfway through the game. Foxes must tremble again After that, the Foxes only did what was necessary to keep the three points in the ice wave. And that was to take revenge, because it gave the more than harmless eagles courage. In the 52nd minute, Leland Irving, who had been underemployed until then, had to reach behind himself for the first time in the Bolzano goal. After a face-off, Jamie Fiber made him look old on the catching hand. Then the big tremors in the ice wave began - until Bernard finally brought salvation with an empty net hit ten seconds before the end.

The Foxes' dry spell is now over, but now it's time to confirm the upward trend in the difficult away game against second-placed Klagenfurt. The game is scheduled for Sunday at 17.30:XNUMX p.m. HCB Südtirol Alperia – Panaceo Villacher SV 3:1 (2:0, 0:0, 1:1) HSBC: Irving (Smith); Nordlund-Rowley, Geiger-Campbell, Marchetti-MacKenzie, Glira; Catenacci-Findlay-Petan, Frigo-Kuparinen-Brace, Miceli-Crescenzi-Insam, Deluca-Bernard-Frank, Schweitzer Coach: Suikkanen

VSV: Bakala (Schluderbacher); Bacher-Desantis, Fraser-Schlacher, Brunner-Wolf, Polastrone-Sharp-Lahoda, Steurer-Goumas-Alderson, Petrik-Maxa-Wohlfahrt, Schützenhofer Coach: Unterluggauer

Gates: 1:0 Anton Bernard (9.19), 2:0 Alex Petan (18.30), 2:1 Jamie Fraser (51.20), 3:1 Anton Bernard (59.49)

Viewers: 1.870 The other results from Friday: Fehervar – Dornbirn 5:2 Goals: 1:0 Koskiranta (15.47), 2:0 Erdely (21.20), 2:1 Magnan (26.48), 2:2 O'Donnell (34.03), 3:2 Szabo (39.59), 4:2 Tikkanen (58.46 ), 5:2 Kuralt (59.21) Audience: 2.940

Innsbruck – Linz 0:5 Goals: 0:1 Schofield (14.46), 0:2 Umicevic (20.54), 0:3 Locke (31.57), 0:4 Davies (33.09), 0:5 DaSilva (35.57) Audience: 2.000

Salzburg – Graz 3:2 Goals: 1:0 Van de Velde (10.37), 1:1 Grafenthin (13.06), 2:1 Raymond (18.50), 2:2 King (32.20), 3:2 Van de Velde (33.11) Audience: 2.911

Vienna – Zagreb 5:0 Goals: 1:0 Vause (17.03), 2:0 Vause (17.16), 3:0 Vause (18.31), 4:0 Vause (26.58), 5:0 Schneider (51.38) Audience: 4.100

Znojmo – Klagenfurt 8:4 Goals: 0:1 Wahl (8.37), 1:1 Luciani (11.22), 2:1 Vainonen (14.22), 3:1 Kalus (15.43), 4:1 Hlava (17.26), 4:2 Kozek (19.03), 4:3 Neal (25.21), 5:3 McPherson (26.06), 6:3 Kujawinski (34.19), 6:4 Fischer (37.39), 7:4 Sedlak (49.01), 8:4 Kujawinski (59.29) Audience: 2.486 The table: SP G U V TV P 1. Vienna Capitals 26 17 0 9 86:71 50 2. Klagenfurt 25 16 0 9 80:59 49 3. Salzburg 25 16 0 9 106:70 48 4. Graz99ers 26 17 0 9 95:69 48 5. Linz 26 15 0 11 82:67 47 6. HCB South Tyrol 26 15 0 11 70:63 45 7. Znojmo 25 11 0 14 80:88 36 8. Innsbruck 26 12 0 14 93:101 34 9. Fehervar 26 12 0 14 82:100 34 10. Dornbirn 26 10 0 16 76:85 32 11. KHL Zagreb 23 6 0 17 53:89 20 12. Villach 26 6 0 20 60:101 16

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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Anton Bernard pulls the HCB out of the crisis

HCB Südtirol Alperia has taken a first, significant step back to its old strength. The Foxes Foxes defeated the harmless and still winless bottom team Villach 3-1. Captain Anton Bernard became the match winner and at the same time ended a very personal dry spell.

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