Ice hockey champions Salzburg lost the first half of the season at Pustertal 2:3. Innsbruck’s victory came on the green table.
The snow chaos around the Brenner also caused a lot of drama in the ice hockey league. While Asiago was completely stuck in traffic and the game in Innsbruck was canceled, the referees for the Eisbullen game – who had arrived the day before – arrived in Brunico very late. So we had to wait a good hour for the starting bully. When it finally started, Fehervar was already leading 5-1 in Graz (9-1 in the end), and it was clear that Salzburg had settled into third place, the Hungarians would remain second and had the Champions League ticket. Things weren’t going well for the champions Especially, defensively they were prone to mistakes, and up front they often had to bite their teeth into goalie Smith. Final score: 2:3. Now there is an eight-day break. During the course of the meeting, it became clear for Pustertal that Innsbruck could no longer be caught. After long discussions, the league verified the Tyroleans’ game against Asiago with a score of 5-0 – Vorarlberg was picked in seventh place for the pre-play-off. Pustertal (8th) has to play against Laibach. Start of the best-of-three series: on Sunday. The Vienna Capitals, Asiago and Graz are already going on vacation. Double triple duty At the end of the championship round on Saturday in the Alps League: The Juniors can still grab second place with a home win in regular time against Cortina. Zell also needs three points at Bregenzerwald plus a straight Broncos defeat at leader Ritten. So there would be home advantage at the start of the quarter-finals in ten days.
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