ICEHL: VSV wants to go back to the winning road against HC Pustertal at home premiere!

The offensive players stand out at Pustertal: Top scorers are Cole Bardreau (3 goals, 2 assists) and the Italo-Canadian Nick Saracino (1 gate, 4 assists), both of whom already come to five points after only two games. Henry Bowlby, who has an impressive scoring efficiency of 60 % with 3 goals and 1 assist, is also striking. On the defensive, Austin Osmanski causes stability: the tall defender already put on 3 assists, won 53.5 % of his duels and set four hard hits in both games. In the goalkeeper position, Eddie Pasquale played both games, but is below the expected level with a catch rate of 87.5 % and prevented fewer goals as statistically forecast. In the penalty Killing, Puster Valley has so far successfully defended 5 out of 6 outnumbered situations (83.33 %), while there is a significantly below-average Facoff quota of only 46.9 %.

Stats & Facts:

Statistically, there is still still a lot of air up to the Special Teams: Villach, especially for the special teams, only 5 out of 11 situations without damage, which corresponds to a quota of 45.45 % and means the penultimate place in the league. In the majority, a goal was scored against Salzburg for the first time and thus comes to a success rate of 11.11 %, so it is also located in the lower third of the table. The goal -efficiency is also expandable: so far only 7 hits have resulted from 110 shots on the opposing goal, which corresponds to a quota of 6.3 %. It is also exciting that the “eagles” already created 11.3 expected goals, but in reality there are four goals below this value.

Two players are particularly noticeable on the individual level: Dylan Macpherson in defense won 54.6 % of his duels, successfully designed over 84.4 % of his breakouts and also blocked six shots. On the offensive, Adam Helewka convinced with 23:43 minutes of ice age as a long -running favorite, won 20 of 28 Facoffs (71.4 %), set three hits and brought two shots on the opposing goal.