The EC-KAC had to admit defeat on Saturday evening away in the tenth regular season with 2:3 after extra time and thus the another equalizer in the quarter-final series against Fehérvár AV19. The Red Jackets now have seasons Lost six away playoff games in a row and are therefore forced to achieve a third home win in this knockout confrontation on Monday evening on their own ice in order to avoid having to travel to Székesfehérvár two days later in an extremely awkward situation. An interim result of 2:2 in a best-of-seven duel is nothing out of the ordinary for the record champions, he has had one like this so far already 16 times to deal with his club history. Eight of these series ended positively for red and whitejust as many negative. Unsurprisingly, it was always very important in these situations fifth encounter to: The winner there took it in 13 out of 16 cases later also the series. A Game five played on home ice With a series score of 2:2, the EC-KAC has never lost in 60 minutesfive wins are compared to two overtime defeats (against HCB Südtirol 2018 and EC Salzburg 2024). In order to present again on Monday, the Red Jackets definitely need to increase their performance Efficiency: While the Klagenfurt team in the previous two Home games at Even Strength Turning 15.6 percent of their shots on goal into a goal could, the success rate was away from home at just 4.1 percentalmost four times lower.
The EC-KAC should be on Monday with the exception of long-term outages Jordan Murray, Thomas hundred pounds and Luka Gomboc the entire squad is available. Clemens Unterwegerwho was unable to take part in the quarterfinal games two, three and four due to illness, returned to training on Sunday morning and was back on the ice for the optional session. Accordingly, it can be assumed that the defender will appear in the lineup again in the home game. The deputy captain would then have missed the same number of playoff games in the current quarter-final series (three) as in his entire previous KAC career (86 post-season games played by the Red Jackets from 2018).
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