Four more wins to go: EC Red Bull Salzburg starts today in South Tyrol in the ice hockey final series (best of seven). A “play-off dino” could set a record.
The Eisbullen and Bozen have crossed bats twice in the play-off. Both times in the ice hockey league final. Both times with victories in the all-important game of the series in the ice arena: Final 2014: Shortened to “best of five”, the Bulls (Matt McIlvane was Don Jackson’s assistant coach at the time) equalized after 0: 2 to 2: 2. In the showdown, Ziga Pance threw Salzburg into tears with the 3:2 in extra time; Final 2018: Under coach Greg Poss, things didn’t go smoothly, but there was already the first match puck in game six. Before the race to catch up started at 0:3 in the decisive duel. Too late: 2:3 – again only the title of the Austrian champion remained. Both times then as now in Bulls dress right in the middle: Captain Thomas Raffl and Dominique Heinrich. With 187 games, he takes the sole lead in the play-off rankings ahead of Thomas Koch (KAC). The 32-year-old, who was born in Vienna, is already experiencing his 16th play-off series, but remembers the two setbacks. But the “Bulls-Dino” immediately emphasizes: “We have a completely different team now, are much more detailed, and tactically also more clearly structured under coach McIlvane.” ./163 games): “Now we have a completely different team. In the last two seasons you have seen the motivation and the ambition with which each individual player goes to work. ” Coach McIlvane emphasizes the offensive qualities of the opponent When it starts abroad, the American downplays: “There are also two teams, ten players and two goalies on the ice, plus a puck. Away or at home, it doesn’t matter.” : “With our history, not the worst.”Ice hockey league: Final: 1st game, today: Bozen – Red Bull Salzburg (7.30 p.m., live Pulse 24). – Other dates: April 8th, 11th, 14th and (if necessary ) April 16, 18 and 21.
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