Peter Schneider goes into his seventh season in Win2day Ice Hockey League. With the EC Red Bull Salzburg, he wants to continue the championship series and also sees the red bulls as a favorite – but the league has become stronger.
In 2017/18, Schneider returned to Austria after a few years in the USA and hired the Vienna Capitals. The native of Klosterneuburger found its way to Salzburg in the summer of 2021. Every season, the national team crack with the Salzburgers crowned a master – an impressive series that one also wants to continue in 2025/26.
A lot has happened on Salzach, especially on the coaching bench, there was a change. With Manny Viveiros there is an experienced man on the gang, Schneider sees no “change of direction” under the former KAC crack: “The most important thing was always our strong core. It does not need a coach who has to prove themselves or have to enforce something with the whip. Our coaches were all in order, that was the case with Mcilvane and David and that is now the case under Viveiros,” said Schneider towards the “Salzburger news“.
Königstransfer was the one around the NHL-experienced Michael Raffl, who will now go hunting with his brother Thomas. An reinforcement for the bulls: “He has already shown how he will tackle it. He wants to help the team, he wants to build on what we have created. He is a super type that has the right setting.”
In the coming season it is time to again: everyone against Salzburg and it will not simply be defending the title. For the 34-year-old wing striker, “the league has never been so strong. Competition revives the business. The field is even closer together and the fans can be happy.” It also says a lot about the quality of the league when all four ICE nations take part in the next A-WM.
Of course, the Mozart towns with their quality, even despite the departures of key players, we Chay Genovay or Ryan Murphy are an absolute favorite group. Nevertheless, one has strengthened well and can trust an intact core that has come together to form a unit over the years. Whoever becomes a master will answer Schneider very dryly: “We”.
Image: Red Bull Salzburg
