The Pioneers Vorarlberg will start the new season of Win2day Ice Hockey League tomorrow. For the team from the Ländle, it is the fourth season at the highest home level. You know how you want to keep up in the playoff race this year.
The Pioneers ended the expired season with 53 points in table place, four points were in the end of a participation in the pre-playoffs. What followed was again a big change in the contingent of the Feldkirchers. Even before the coach’s position, the changes did not stop. But after a good preparation, you feel able to have a say in the race for the playoffs.
Kevin Macierzynski will lead the Pioneers as a captain this year and know what it will be important: “We have to define ourselves about fight and passion this season. In preparation, we have already been able to see promising approaches. The goal must be that we as a team appear again as two years ago,” said the veteran towards “”Vorarlberger Nachrichten“. Macierzynski is already in his 14th ICE season and already has 548 season games on the hump-to wear the“ C ”on his chest is a great honor for him.
The 33-year-old has his new teammates constantly in mind, this year the newcomers have also been taken more to make the integration easier. The neo-captain also hopes for the “Steven-Owre effect”: “Cole Gallant, I think a very good Torriacher. In general, the line with him, Julian Metzler and Nathan Burke, makes a lot of steam. But I hope for some to” Steve-Owre effect “-Stevie I would not have trusted at first that he exploded so much”.
A clear line
With Johannes Nygard there is a “new” head coach, but the Finn has been an assistant coach of Dylan Stanley in the past two years. Some players already know the 31-year-old, who follows a precise plan. “Nygård pursues a very clear plan in which everyone knows exactly what they have to do. Basically, they are very sociable, but if necessary, he can also change the switch at lightning speed,” says Macierzynksi. There was little rotation throughout the preparation, from the start there was a clear idea of what the lines looked like.
Six Preseason games were on the program for the Pioneers, four of them were won. On Friday you will be a guest at the Steinbach Black Wings Linz before the first western derby is waiting for the Feldkircher in front of a home backdrop on Sunday. The declared goal, the top 10, can be realized: “If we meet in the power play and collect few goals in the output game, we have good cards. Last year we did not get it under control. There were good approaches in preparation, but what they are worth will show up against Linz.”
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