As part of the test game week in Klagenfurt, two encounters will be on the program on Friday: The EC-KAC dueled with the Vienna Capitals, previously Wolfsburg and Villach cross the rackets.
In the second of its three preparatory games in the current week, the EC-KAC will receive the ICE colleagues from the Vienna Capitals in the Heidi Horten-Arena on Friday evening (starting at the game: 8:00 p.m.). The red jackets can build again on Jan Muršak, who has cured his illness. On the other hand, Fabian Hochegger is missing, in which an upper body injury has now been diagnosed, which will keep it away from the ice for several weeks.
Capitals with many new additions
The Vienna Capitals come with a team that was completely renewed compared to the previous year on Lake Wörthersee: after two seasons very moderate for Viennese standards, in which the two worst basic passages in the club history were recorded and the quarter -finals were missed, the Donaustädter 2025/26 again strive to return to the extended league tip.
Long -standing supports such as captain Mario Fischer and Nikolaus Hartl ended their career in summer, eight of the ten imports in the squad have been filled. The most prominent newcomer is the Canadian center forward Linden Vey, who once ran in the KHL, DEL and the Swiss National League in the NHL and in the past eight years. Four cracks in the caps contingent-the strikers Marco Richter, Maximilian Theirich and Senna Peeters as well as defender Lorenz Lindner-can refer to a past in the organization of the EC-KAC. In their first and so far only pre-season game, the Viennese prevailed 4: 3 after penalty shooting on Saturday at Fehérvár Av19.
Tickets online and on the evening box
Tickets for the duel between the state and federal capital are available for the conditions we are familiar with in the pre-season 2025: seat cards cost € 15.00, standing space cards € 10.00, for children up to the age of 14, admission is free of charge, but you have to pick up a ticket from the evening box. Cards can be obtained throughout the EC-KAC online ticket shop at Tickets.kac.at or on match day from 6.30 p.m. at the evening box.
Even before the Klagenfurt game against Vienna, the Grizzlys Wolfsburg and the EC VSV are available in the Heidi Horten-Arena from 4:00 p.m., tickets are also available online or at the day ticket box at the main entrance (from 3 p.m.).
Automatically generated livestream
The duel between the red jackets and the Vienna Capitals can also be followed in the live stream generated automatically by the analysis tool Spiideo, pay-per-view tickets cost € 5.00. The problems that occurred at the feed from the test game against Wolfsburg on Wednesday did not only affect this, but the entire platform of Spiideo, according to the provider, the error could be remedied after almost two hours and should no longer occur in future transmissions.
Two opposite series
Although the two clubs have been playing in the same league for a quarter of a century, preparation games between the EC-KAC and the Vienna Capitals have no particularly large tradition: After the first test game on September 13, 2002 was broken off after only 20 minutes at 2: 2 (the capitals were only 18 years later due to the hard style of play. “Adam Comrie Memorial” on her own ice cream with 7: 3 won. Also at the last pre-season duel, held on August 25, 2023 in the Heidi Horten-Arena, the Kagraners prevailed (5: 2).
The red-white winning in preparatory games faces a very impressive series of success in league games: The EC-KAC has won all the Saisonduelle with the Vienna Capitals in the two recent seasons, and since the last defeat on January 6, 2023, nine red-jacket triumphs against Vienna have been in series.
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