The EC-KAC can look back on a fantastic month of October Eight wins in nine league games brought and in the total 22 out of 27 possible points were driven in. The Rotjacken are the only Austrian team in the win2day ICE Hockey League that has already achieved a double-digit number of successes this year. They are currently taking part in the Fourth place in the table and are (with one game less) five points behind the leader from Ljubljana. It has been falling almost steadily over the past few weeks The average goals conceded is currently 2.36 and is therefore the second lowest in competition. The offensive, which had been struggling with its efficiency for a long time, has also recently gotten up to speed, with ten goals scored in the two games this week, against Bolzano/Bozen and Innsbruck 13.9 percent of the shots on goal the way into the net (average in the first twelve games of the season: 8.7 percent). On Sunday afternoon in Feldkirch, the Carinthians defended an impressive one Series of six away wins in a rowthe red jackets lost to the champions in Salzburg on the first championship weekend, but have remained undefeated abroad since then (with 16:2 points and 22:12 goals).
The Red Jackets traveled to Vorarlberg after training on Saturday morning, but did so with a further thinned out squad. In addition to the long-term injured David Maier, Luka Gomboc and Fabian Hochegger (which aims to return to play after the International Break) is missing from the EC-KAC as announced Nick Petersen (Lower Body Injury). In addition, is John Dobrovolny fell ill on Saturday night, so he is also not available for the duel with the Pioneers.
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