The short Christmas break of the win2day ICE Hockey League ends today, meaning a hot phase begins for the Vienna Capitals. Between St. Stephen’s Day and January 5th, 2026, the Viennese will play six games within eleven days.
It starts with today’s clash with Hydro Fehérvár AV19. The Capitals want to get their fourth win in a row in Hungary and at the same time remain perfect against their pre-playoff opponent from the previous season. The game starts at 5:30 p.m. As usual, the match will be broadcast on sporteurope.tv.
Even before Christmas, head coach Kevin Constantine’s team had lots of presents ready for the fans of the Vienna Capitals. Last week, the Caps won the Christmas game in the STEFFL Arena against FTC-Telekom 4-3 on Wednesday. Victories against HCB Südtirol Alperia (5:2) and HC Falkensteiner Pustertal (3:2) followed in South Tyrol at the weekend. The Caps celebrated three successes in a row for the first time since December 2023 in the win2day ICE Hockey League. The last time the Viennese won three wins after 60 minutes in a row was in February 2023. To find the last winning streak that included at least four games, you also have to look back to the 2022/23 season.
Between October 2 and October 23, 2022, the Caps won five games in a row. In the last five games of the current season, the Viennese team collected four wins. This meant that the Donaustadt team moved up to tenth place in the table. Today’s opponents, neighbors Hydro Fehérvár AV19, are two points ahead, but have already played one game more than the Capitals. The in-form goalkeeper Evan Cowley has played a major role in the Viennese’s recovery with his performances. The 30-year-old has recorded a catch rate of 93.75 percent over the past five games. Senna Peeters and Sebastian Wraneschitz are still in advanced training, Marco Richter is out with a long-term injury.
While the Vienna Capitals had to bow to Hydro Fehérvár AV19 1:2 in the pre-playoffs of the previous season, the capitals are still flawless against the Hungarians this season. Kevin Constantine’s team defeated his former team 6-3 in Székesfehérvár at the end of October. A 3-1 home win in Vienna followed at the end of November. However, Fehérvár goes into today’s duel with a sense of achievement. Ted Dent’s team won 4-2 against the Steinbach Black Wings Linz last Sunday. Ex-Caps striker Trevor Cheek shot the Upper Austrians out of the pre-playoff ranks with a hat trick. With eight goals this season, the American has one less goal to his name than Anze Kuralt, who leads the team’s top scorer rankings. The Slovenian, together with Janos Hari (18 points), is also the Hungarians’ best scorer. Fehérvár’s penalty killing is the second best in the win2day ICE Hockey League with a success rate of 83.16 percent. However, this will be matched by the third-best power play in the league, as the Caps capitalized on 24.1 percent of their power play situations.
Statement Fabian Scholz, assistant coach of the Vienna Capitals
“Today, after a short break, we started again at full throttle. It doesn’t matter that today is December 25th, that’s business. There is no time to relax between the holidays, we want to pick up where we last left off. Especially now that we can see an upward trend, we will not give anything less than full throttle. It will be important again tomorrow against Fehérvár that we work in a detail-oriented manner within the system and generally act harder than they do. Special teams are against them Fehérvár is always important, we expect a close game on their small ice surface. We have to be ready for that in five-on-five and on the special teams.
vienna-capitals.at , Image: Soós Attila
“), i.text = “window._taboola = window._taboola || ();_taboola.push({mode:’alternating-thumbnails-a’, container:’taboola-below-article-thumbnails’, placement:’below-article’, target_type: ‘mix’});”, n.appendChild(l), n.appendChild(i), e(n, t) } Array.prototype.filter || (Array.prototype.filter = function(e, t) { if (“function” != typeof e) throw TypeError(); let n = (); for (let l = 0, i = this.length >>> 0; l < i; l += 1) if (l in this) { let r = this(l); e.call(t, r, l, this) && n.push(r) } return n }), window.insertAfter = e, window.getElementByXPath = t, window.injectWidgetByXpath = function e(l) { let i = t(l) ||. document.getElementById("tbdefault"); i && n(i) }, window.injectWidgetByMarker = function e
