For the Vienna Capitals, the first road trip is due to the west this season. On Friday, the Viennese are challenged at Pioneers Vorarlberg at the bottom of the table (7.30 p.m.) before the guest appearance at HC Tiwag Innsbruck is due the next day (5.30 p.m.). Both games can be seen in the payment stream at Sporteurope.tv.
The Vienna Capitals make up for the first four games with five points in the luggage towards Western Austria. Last week, after the brilliant 7: 6 comeback victory against the Steinbach Black Wings Linz Meister EC Red Bull Salzburg, the Viennese had to give up 1: 3. Defender Nelson Nogier recorded his fourth assist against the Mozart towns, so the 29-year-old at the top of the team’s top scorer ranking with his compatriot Simon Bourque, who also holds two goals and two templates with four points. Nogier all recorded his goal participations in the last three games, the longest active points series of all caps players. Head coach Gerry Fleming can look forward to the return of Linden Vey. The captain of the Vienna Capitals missed the Sunday game because of a upper body injury suffered in the duel against Linz. Jérémy Grégoire, Felix Koschek and Senna Peeters, who are still injured, are not on the bus towards the west.
Pioneers Vorarlberg – opponent 1
The Pioneers Vorarlberg made a completely failed start to the season. The Feldkirchers lost each of their first four games, the goal difference is 5:20. Last week, the team of the new head coach Johannes Nygård moved violent defeats against HCB South Tyrol Alperia (0: 6) and Olimpija Ljubljana (1: 6). The two Austrians Oskar Maier and Julian Metzler are top scorers on their team with just two points. With the Pioneers, the caps did not combine the best memories in the past season. The capitals had to surrender in all four strings. The overtime defeat in the last meeting on February 15 was ultimately manageable, since Willie Raskob fixed the pre-playoff feed two seconds before the end of the regular playing time.
HC Innsbruck – opponent 2
HC Tiwag Innsbruck is located on the penultimate place in the Pioneers. The Tyroleans won only the duel against the Pioneers Vorarlberg of their four games. Last week, as part of the Hungary Road Trip, defeats against Hydro Fehérvár AV19 (4: 5) and league newcomer FTC-Telekom (2: 6). Before the duel against the caps, the Innsbrucker will receive league leaders Olimpija Ljubljana (7.15 p.m.) tomorrow. Tyrolean top scorer is an ex-League MVP Steven Owre, who holds as many points after four games (3 goals + 1 assist). The sharks had to improve the squad several times over the course of the young season. As a replacement for the injured Matt Wilkins, Darien Craighead and Lukas Bär, the Swede Sebastian Benker and ex-VSV attacker Max Coatta were liable. In the pre -season, the Capitals won all four duels with the sharks. Thanks to 10: 0 and 8: 2 canters in the Steffl Arena domestic, there was also a goal difference of 26: 5 in favor of the city residents.
Statement Zane Franklin, attacker of the Vienna Capitals
“In the past few days we have taken care that after two intensive games we have to regenerate properly. On the other hand, the video analysis was not neglected, also to make ourselves aware of the areas in which areas we can improve. In Win2day Ice Hockey League, every team is competitive, no matter how the balance in the young season may look. Accordingly, we will not burn anything.
vienna-capitals.at Image: Vienna Capitals/Aaron Margotti
