HC Innsbruck extends contract with ice hockey veteran Lukas Bär!

HC Innsbruck extends contract with ice hockey veteran Lukas Bär!

Innsbruck, Österreich - The HC Innsbruck has extended the contract with Lukas Bär by another year. This positive news was published on Friday. The 27-year-old bear, who has already played around 400 competitive games for the HCI, is a real veteran of the club. He has been one of the sharks since his youth and has developed into an important team of the team. This season he was also part of the ÖEHV team and played a total of twelve games for the Austrian national team. Together with his teammates, it goes against France on Friday afternoon, the game starts at 4:20 p.m.. Laola1 reports that Bär sees the coming season optimistic and emphasizes the chance to fight the playoffs. In his statements, he emphasizes the value of the cohesion within the team and the positive aspects from last season.

Shortly before the contract extension by HC Innsbruck, the team presented itself in a game against the Moser Medical Graz99ers. In this match, which was characterized by numerous ups and downs, the Innsbruckers could not score despite a weakened team. They lost the game 3: 7. The first section started shyly, but Lukas Bär and his teammates had some promising chances, but could not accommodate the puck in the goal. Particularly noteworthy is the strong penalty killing of the Innsbrucker, which convinced during a long power play by the Graz99ers. HC Innsbruck Equisively performed, in particular Rassell, who scored the connecting goal in the 30th minute.

game analysis and challenges

In the further course of the game, Graz quickly took the lead and was able to hold the lead to the end, despite a strong appearance of the Innsbrucker in the middle section. The head coach Jordan Smotherman had characterized the sharks as a good team, but it turned out that the Graz99ers performed better and put the HCI under pressure. Rassell was particularly active and ultimately scored two goals for Innsbruck, which shows its rising form while he has to try to lead the team to better performance.

ice hockey in Germany and Austria

ice hockey is not only one of the most popular sports in Austria, but also in Germany. According to the statistics of ice hockey100 , the German ice hockey league (DEL) set up an average visitor record per game in the 2023/24 season. Germany also occupies the 8th place in the men's IIHF world rankings from 2024 and counted around 25,860 members in the German Ice Hockey Bund in 2024. These figures illustrate the growing popularity and the importance of ice hockey in the region and give a positive outlook on the development of the sport in the coming years