Black wing: Linz clearly wins against Innsbruck and remains strong!

Black wing: Linz clearly wins against Innsbruck and remains strong!

The Black Wings Linz put their impressive run in the ICE hockey league . On Sunday, the Linzer clearly defeated the Innsbruck Haie 2-0 and continued to claim third place in the league. After the eleventh win in just twelve games, the team is on a successful course. In this game, the HCI goalkeeper Jakob Brandner was the highlight, which defended 49 shots in his debut. Nevertheless, Graham Knott only managed to overcome him before Sean Collins fixed the final score in the empty goal.

Alter Champion Salzburg also showed no weaknesses: the master finished the Pioneers Vorarlberg 6-2, while the Graz99ers lost to VSV in an exciting penalty shootout. Feherr AV19 also remains at the top of the table, defeated Asiago with 4: 3 after extra time and thus fought against the tied hcb South Tyrol, who won 4: 3 against Olimpija Ljubljana. The current season of the league, which started on September 20, 2024, is the fifth under international participation and, like wikipedia , continued until April 2025. In this season, 13 teams from four different countries are fighting for the title.

The league is opened by a basic round in which each team faces four times. The top six teams can qualify for the quarter-finals, while the teams in ranks 7 to 10 in "Best-of-3" series are fighting for the last two places in the playoffs. So the tension remains high, while the teams give everything until the end of the season to maintain their chances.