Into the New Year with Big Points: Bolzano's New Year's Eve party in Villach

In the top game of the round, the Foxes retained the upper hand 5-2 against fourth-placed Villach. With this away win, the Talferstadt team consolidated second place in the ranking and are - with one game less - five points behind league leader Innsbruck. Meanwhile, HC Pustertal celebrated an immensely important 2-1 win after extra time against Asiago.

In Villach, several episodes and cracks caused a stir. There's Terrance Amorosa, who had a solid debut. There was the opening period in which four goals were scored within six minutes to make the score 2-2. There was also the middle third, in which the Foxes found themselves in trouble after taking the lead 3-2, particularly because they incurred unnecessary penalties. But Bolzano's penalty killers, who had to survive twice outnumbered for 27 seconds, played very well.

And there is also Brad McClure, who was once again the center of attention and is increasingly becoming the protagonist of Bolzano. The DEL newcomer decided the last two games against Klagenfurt and Asiago with his goals in overtime and he also scored the all-important 3-2 goal against Villach, which was ultimately decisive for the victory. By the way, this was the first triumph against Villach this season. The key scenes Furious start Things get wild in the Villach town hall. After one of the dreaded lightning-fast counter-attacks, the home team took the lead with Rauchwald (9th), but Angelo Miceli equalized 63 seconds later after a fine Mantenuto pass. Premiere Less than three minutes later the bell rings again: Scott Valentine scores with a fine wrist shot. His first goal in the HCB jersey (13th). But Villach had the answer ready 103 seconds later when Moderer's shot was unfortunately deflected into the Bolzano goal. That hurts Villach's Kulda gets a shot from Valentine right in the face. The tough guy has the wound on his cheek treated in the dressing room and returns to the ice (17th). Always him Brad McClure isn't kidding and hammers the disc into the top corner. He scored in the third game in a row (24th)! Tasty pieces Bozen's Thomas puts the lid on it, hitting the flying puck into the net like a tennis player (57th). Shortly afterwards, Alberga hits the empty goal (60th). HC Bozen continues on New Year's Day with the home game against bottom team Vorarlberg. It starts at 18 p.m. HC Pustertal meets Klagenfurt at home at the same time.

EC IDM heat pumps VSV – HCB Südtirol Alperia 2:5 VSV: Lamoureux (Schmidt); Lindner-Kulda, Wetzl-Joslin, Despres-Kohlmaier; Sabolic-Desjardins-Benjamin Lanzinger, Grafenthin-Rauchenwald-Luciani, Rebernig-Maxa-Moderer, Prodinger-Florian Lanzinger-Raspotnig Coach: Daum

HSBC: Harvey (Bernard); Culkin-Miglioranzi, Dalhuisen-Amorosa, Valentine-DiPerna, Ginnetti; Frank-Mitch Hults-Thomas, Halmo-McClure-Gazley, Frigo-Alberga-Frattin, Miceli-Mantenuto-Felicetti Coach: Hanlon

Gates: 1:0 Alexander Rauchwald (8.50), 1:1 Angelo Miceli (9.53), 1:2 Scott Valentine (12.21), 2:2 Kevin Moderer (14.05), 2:3 Brad McClure (23.59), 2:4 Christian Thomas (56.51), 2:5 Domenic Alberga (59.39)

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The other games HC Pustertal – Asiago 2:1 aet Goals: 1-0 Plastino (25.13), 1-1 McShane (45.06), 2-1 Catenacci (60.32) Audience: 3007

Klagenfurt – Linz 0:1 Goal: 0:1 St-Amant (49.09) Audience: 4063

Salzburg – Ljubljana 3:2 Goals: 1:0 Nissner (4.06), 2:0 Baltram (25.27), 2:1 Kapel (26.24), 2:2 Mehle (47.37), 3:2 Huber (56.39) Audience: 2095

Fehervar – Vienna 1:4 Goals: 0:1 Bradley (3.30), 0:2 Bauer (21.18), 1:2 Sarauer (56.06), 1:3 Bradley (58.45), 1:4 Hartl (59.15) Audience: 2779

Innsbruck – Vorarlberg 5:1 Goals: 1-0 Watson (6.47), 2-0 Watson (19.07), 3-0 Helewka (26.06), 4-0 Mackin (35.46), 5-0 Mackin (53.11), 5-1 Maver (55.52) Audience: 2500

SP G U V TV P 1. HC Innsbruck 32 22 0 10 130:100 68 2. HCB South Tyrol 31 22 0 9 108:74 63 3. EC Salzburg 29 19 0 10 88:58 58 4. EC Villach 32 19 0 13 117:99 56 5. Linz 30 19 0 11 88:70 55 6. EC Klagenfurt 31 17 0 14 89:75 50 7. Fehervar 31 15 0 16 81:75 48 8. Vienna Capitals 29 15 0 14 89:85 46 9. Asiago Hockey 30 12 0 18 82:102 35 10. HC Pustertal 32 11 0 21 84:97 34 11. Graz99ers 31 11 0 20 59:88 33 12. Olimpija Ljubljana 30 10 0 20 78:111 29 13. Vorarlberg 30 7 0 23 53:112 22

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Into the New Year with Big Points: Bolzano's New Year's Eve party in Villach

This is how you can end the year! HCB Südtirol Alperia said goodbye to 2022 with an important win on Friday evening.

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ICE Regular Season ICE	SP	TV	P
1. HCB South Tyrol	12	46:25	30
2. Graz99ers	12	35:28	25
3. Fehervar	11	33:16	24
4. EC Salzburg	11	43:33	23
5. Olimpija Ljubljana	12	31:30	21
6. HC Pustertal	14	50:49	21
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