Seven Watschn for Linz: Bozen puts on the big show

In game five, HC Bozen showed the Black Wings every trick in the book and achieved an unchallenged 4000:7 in front of 1 enthusiastic fans. This performance by the Foxes was masterful!

With tough checks, a lot of discipline and impressive finishing strength, the people of Bolzano secured the first match puck in the best-of-seven series with the Upper Austrians. They were only allowed to play in the ice wave for the first five minutes on Friday, after which they were inferior to the home team in all respects and miles away from their third quarter-final victory.

Now the Black Wings absolutely have to win at home on Sunday in order to force a playoff on South Tyrolean soil next Tuesday. If the HCB makes it to the semi-finals next week, they would face Klagenfurt or Vienna.

Luca Frigo's special evening Bolzano boasted enormous team unity - and yet one player stood out that evening who clearly overshadowed Bolzano's exceptional talents from overseas: Luca Frigo. The 29-year-old from Luserna San Giovanni in Piedmont scored the first hat-trick of his professional career. He managed almost everything in this memorable game: winning the puck, making precise passes, solo runs and precise shots on goal. He was rightly celebrated by the fans for minutes after the game. Frigo's seventh season at HCB is by far Frigo's best, and not just because of his 18 goals this season so far. The key scenes Initial spark for the goalie It is not the whirling strikers who pave the way to victory for the HCB, but goalkeeper Harvey. In the first five minutes only Linz plays, but the 25-year-old Canadian keeps getting in their way with great saves. Then the game ends. Let's start! The Bozen target shooting begins in the eighth minute: Miceli flicks the target sharply into the left corner, just three minutes later Hults increases from a hidden position with a precise shot into the short cross corner. Frigo, frigo, frigo In the 17th minute the curtain opens on Frigo's one-man show. First he waits until Linz goalie Tirronen is sitting on the seat of his pants and lifts the target in, then he scores after a fine no-look pass from Frank and finally he nets it with a shot into the far corner. Frigo's cinematic performance is only interrupted by McClure, who dryly finishes a great puck relay. At the end of the middle third it is 6:0. Halmo, check, goal This scene is emblematic of the entire game: Halmo takes Linz defender Murphy off his skates with an open-ice hit, takes the disc, moves towards the goal and hits the top corner - 7-0. Only Harvey is annoyed In the last minute of the game there was a downer for Bozen and goalkeeper Harvey. With a double majority, Knott destroys his shutout with 1:7. It is also the final result.

HCB Südtirol Alperia – Steinbach Black Wings Linz 7:1 HSBC: Harvey (Bernard); Culkin-Miglioranzi, Cole Hults-Dalhuisen, Valentine-Di Perna, Ginnetti; Halmo-McClure-Gazley, Frattin-Mitch Hults-Thomas, Frigo-Mantenuto-Frank, Felicetti-Alberga-Miceli, Kasslatter. Coach: Hanlon

Linz: Tirronen (Höneckl); Roe-Schumnig, Wolf-Dorion, Schneitzer-Todd, Lindner-Murphy; Lebler-Haga-Gaffal, Kristler-Knott-Brucker, Bretschneider-Stuart-Lahoda, Mitsch-Pusnik-Rappold. Coach: Luke

Gates: 1-0 Angelo Miceli (7.42), 2-0 Mitch Hults (10.02), 3-0 Luca Frigo (16.43), 4-0 Luca Frigo (19.54), 5-0 Brad McClure (24.08), 6-0 Luca Frigo (29.30), 7:0 Michael Halmo (50.51), 7:1 Graham Knott (59.29)

Viewers: 3978

Best of 7 series: 3:2

The other quarter-final series: HC Innsbruck - Vienna Capitals 1:4 Gates: 0:1 Krys (12.52), 1:1 Paulweber (24.04), 1:2 rooms (28.30), 1:3 Sheppard (43.41), 1:4 Bradley (48.03), Viewers: 3000 Best of 7 series: 2:3

Villacher SV - Klagenfurter AC 2:3 Gates: 1:0 Maxa (1.47), 1:1 Jensen Aabo (35.01), 2:1 Viveiros (36.39), 2:2 Lessio (51.45), 2:3 Witting (67.18) Viewers: 3650 Final standings best-of-7 series: 1:4

Salzburg - Fehervar Final standings best-of-7 series: 4:0

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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Seven Watschn for Linz: Bozen puts on the big show

Now you can dream again in Bolzano and far beyond the city limits: HCB Südtirol Alperia literally outplayed the Black Wings Linz in the fifth playoff duel. The semi-finals are now just one win away.

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