Special teams decide: Bolzano is defeated by Dornbirn

After 60 hard-fought minutes in the Dornbirn trade fair stadium, Vorarlberg won 2-1 and inflicted their first defeat on Bolzano in their third duel of the season. The HCB's defeat has no consequences in the table: Because, in addition to the Talferstadt team, their pursuer Fehervar also remained without points on Wednesday, captain Anton Bernard & Co. greet them from the top of the rankings even after the turn of the year.

HCB coach Greg Ireland was able to rely on the recovered Dan Catenacci for the first time in Dornbirn, but had to do without five players again with the injured quartet Leland Irving, Justin Fazio, Ivan Tauferer and Ben Youds as well as the suspended Mike Halmo. The Canadian trainer and his counterpart Kai Suikkanen saw an uneventful initial phase in which Ivan Deluca provided the first highlight: The 5-year-old from Sterzing was in the right place after an Alberga finish and used the rebound to take the 1-23 lead. For Deluca it was the first goal of the current season. Scored his first goal of the season: Ivan Deluca

After the opening goal, the people of Bolzano failed to punish the Dornbirn team, who were often sloppy in defense, and conceded the equalizer shortly before the first half-time siren. When Di Perna was sitting in the penalty box, the eye-catching Jevpalovs fed Romig, who had run in, who directed the puck into the net to make it 1-1. Although the Bulldogs are less dangerous on the power play than any other team in the league, they struck again in the middle third with one more man on the ice: after a remarkable pass from Macierzynski, Jevpalovs appeared alone in front of Andreas Bernard and somewhat fortunately beat the Kalter goalkeeper through Suspenders for 1:2.

As a result, Bozen acted passively for a long time and was lucky several times not to concede the third goal. Only in the last 3 minutes did the HCB tighten the reins again and become more powerful. However, the white-red final offensive remained unrewarded: Even though the courageously defending Dornbirn defense didn't always shine and opened the door for Bolzano to equalize a few times with their own mistakes, the HCB didn't get the puck into the goal a second time The narrow defeat could no longer be shaken.

Bolzano has the opportunity to get back to winning ways on New Year's Day: Then the Talferstadt team will be guests of the Red Bulls from Salzburg. Dornbirn Bulldogs - HCB Südtirol Alperia 2:1 (1:1, 1:0, 0:0) DEC: Östlund (Höneckl); Kaldis-MacKenzie, Kokkila-Nilsson, Magnan-Schnetzer; Romig-Brosseau-Woger, Macierzynski-Häußle-Schwinger, Yogan-Rapuzzi-Jevpalovs, Fröwis-Straka-Pöschmann Coach: Kai Suikkanen

HSBC: Andreas Bernard (Cloutier); Fournier-Plastino, Robertson-Di Perna, Pietroniro-Gios, Insam-Catenacci-Bardaro, Frigo-Findlay-Gazley, Frank-Anton Bernard-Miceli, Giliati-Alberga-Deluca, Pitschieler Coach: Greg Ireland

Gates: 0:1 Ivan Deluca (6.57), 1:1 Emilio Romig (18.02), 2:1 Nikita Jevpalovs (29.37) ICEHL- the remaining games from Wednesday evening: Klagenfurt - Graz 1:2 a.t.t. 0:1 Moderer (30.33), 1:1 Bischofberger (50.43), 1:2 Porsberger (61.18)

Salzburg - Innsbruck 5:1 1:0 Baltram (15.29), 2:0 Schütz (25.10), 2:1 Ciampini (27.33), 3:1 Schofield (33.58), 4:1 Schofield (37.15), 5:1 Raffl (37.51)

Villach - Linz 4:3 0:1 Kozek (8.15), 0:2 Lebler (14.24), 1:2 Kosmachuk (20.25), 2:2 Collins (31.19), 3:2 Caron (38.05), 4:2 Wachter (41.59), 4: 3 kozek (57.56)

Fehervar - Vienna 1:4 0:1 Loney (12.08), 0:2 Großlercher (25.07), 1:2 Erdely (27.03), 1:3 Vause (58.06), 1:4 Fischer (58.46) The table SP G U V TV P 1. HCB South Tyrol 24 17 0 7 78:44 54 2. Fehervar 29 18 0 11 98:85 54 3. Vienna Capitals 26 16 0 10 82:63 47 4. Klagenfurt 26 14 0 12 70:55 45 5. Dornbirn 25 14 0 11 71:70 40 6. Salzburg 22 13 0 9 72:58 39 7. Graz99ers 26 12 0 14 76:85 35 8. Innsbruck 26 11 0 15 88:93 34 9. Bratislava 25 10 0 15 67:84 29 10. Villach 27 10 0 17 61:88 29 11. Linz 26 6 0 20 49:87 17

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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Special teams decide: Bolzano is defeated by Dornbirn

HCB Südtirol Alperia ended the 2020 calendar year with a defeat. The Foxes conceded 2 goals when they were outnumbered by the Dornbirn Bulldogs - actually the weakest power play team in the league - and had to narrowly admit defeat despite temporarily leading.

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