On Tuesday evening, the EC-KAC starts the 2026 playoffs in the Heidi Horten Arena at home. kac.at has put together the most important information about the first of up to seven duels with Fehérvár AV19.
The EC-KAC opened on Tuesday March 10th In 2026, with a home game, the 39th playoff campaign in the club’s history, the Red Jackets have chosen Sunday evening for Fehervar AV19 decided as opponents in the quarterfinals. The first playoff duel in league history between these two clubs, who occupied second and tenth positions in the table in the regular round, begins at 7:15 p.m and will be broadcast live.
The EC-KAC made his sixth pick in club history on Sunday evening for the fifth time in a row for the person at the time of his selection worst placed among all possible opponents decided and will face Fehérvár AV19 in the quarterfinals. Since the introduction of the pick (2012/13), the Red Jackets have been in six cases have never failed against one of their chosen opponentsbut in the last two years they had to play a sixth game in the opening round of the knockout phase. The Klagenfurt team took the post season so far nine times from second place from the basic round table and in seven cases they later reached the final.
At the start of the quarter-finals, the record champions are building on their strong home record this year against teams outside the top six: 14 appearances in the Heidi Horten Arena against teams in places seven to 13 resulted in 13 wins and 39 out of 42 possible points. The recent playoff history of the EC-KAC also gives the red and white camp reason for optimism: The athletes have won eleven of the last 15 best-of-seven seriesthey only lost out three times during this period against EC Salzburg and once against the Vienna Capitals. The Carinthian balance sheet is also very positive against non-Austrian opposition in the post season, it involved nine “best-of-seven” confrontations with clubs based outside the Alpine republic just one – the 2018 quarter-finals against HCB Südtirol – lost.
Fehervar AV19 filmed this last week Pre-playoff duel with the Vienna Capitals After a 1:5 defeat at the start, it was still in his favor: a 7:3 home win (which was only confirmed in the last part of the game) followed on Sunday 1-0 away win in Vienna, which meant that the Hungarians successfully mastered the “best-of-three” detour to the quarter-finals for the third time in four years. The team of Head Coach Ted Dent This saved a season that was in danger of being classified in the category messed up average points achieved in the basic passage (1.25) but the fifth lowest in 19 years league membership. Especially away from home, the Hungarians’ engine sputtered a lot: out so far 26 games abroad stand only seven wins The last time the club had less to its name was in the 2009/10 season.
The initial phase of the encounters was often particularly important: Of the Székesfehérvár’s 26 away games were won by the team that took the lead 1-0. This one-sided result was aided by the limited offensive effectiveness: in 19 of his 24 appearances outside Hungary’s borders, Fehérvár AV19 was picked up by his opponents maximum two goals scored limited. In the duel with the EC-KAC, the Red Devils are aiming to improve their rather modestly glorious playoff history in the win2day ICE Hockey League: so far they have qualified ten times for the quarter-finals, which is then the final destination in nine cases was. Since 2010, Székesfehérvár has always started a best-of-seven series away from home with a defeat.
The EC-KAC lacks long-term failures Thomas hundred pounds and Luka Gombocwhose seasons have already ended prematurely due to injuries, at the start of the playoffs on Tuesday Mario Kempe and Mathias From. The Swede is on the mend after the upper body injury he suffered in the last regular season game and is already back in light off-ice training. He could return to action in the first week of the quarterfinals. This will most likely not be the case with the Red Jackets’ Danish top scorer, who is still ill. At Jesper Jensen Aabowho missed the last three games due to a lower body injury, there are many signs that he will make a comeback on Tuesday, but it is still unclear whether he will be involved David Maierwho had to end the final training session early on Monday with pain in his upper body.
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