In the last of three away games in a row, the EC-KAC will be visiting twelfth-placed Pioneers Vorarlberg on Friday, who still have vague hopes of pre-playoff qualification and have been quite successful recently.
At the end of his road trip he denies EC-KAC (27 wins, twelve defeats) on Friday January 23rd 2026, his last away game for almost a month. The red jackets have to do without eight regulars, but remain as league leaders in the current twelfth place Pioneers Vorarlberg (twelve wins, 25 defeats). The first disc is thrown at 7:30 p.mbroadcasts live.
The EC-KAC had to play on Wednesday in the away game that was brought forward due to the Winter Olympics HC Pustertal suffered a 2:3 defeat, the Red Jackets remained in the 39th game of the season for only the seventh time without winning a pointbefore the loss in South Tyrol they had won five games in a row. Klagenfurt keeps the table unchanged both in absolute and relative terms (2.10 points per season game) to. The record champions are still the only club in the competition that more points away from home collected (44) than at home (38). The red-white majority game also shows a positive trend: the encounter in Brunico/Brunico was that fourth in a row with a power play goal for the EC-KACwho was able to end 36.4 percent of his power-play opportunities with a goal during this period. The league leaders are still going strong Even Strengthphases, both the 103 goals scored and the goal difference of +35 correspond to this Second best value in the league behind defending champions Salzburg. The most noticeable thing for the Red Jackets is the long list of failures Duel behaviorwhere the disappearing substance in seven of the last nine games for a success rate of under 50 percent has taken care of.
After the game on Wednesday evening, the EC-KAC team stayed in Brunico/Bruneck, where parts of the team completed a light ice session on Thursday before the red and white entourage traveled on to Vorarlberg in the early afternoon. In the game against the Pioneers on Friday, the coaching staff will have to focus on the seven currently injured players (Josh Teves, David Maier, Jesper Jensen Aabo, Jordan Murray, Oliver Lam, Thomas hundred pounds and Luka Gomboc), even though the three import defenders have all already returned to light ice training (or in the Dane’s case even team training). The player who was injured after the starting third against HC Pustertal is also not available Mario Kempe. Initial diagnoses do not indicate a long-term failure, but more clarity will only be provided by a further evaluation after the Swede returns to Klagenfurt.
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