Crime for top six, Jesenice wants to go back
Klagenfurt – Apart from today’s summit meeting between the Innsbrucker Haien and Salzburg, the fight for the fixed play-off qualification and top six is raging in the ICE Hockey League. In the 3:4 overtime defeat in Salzburg on Sunday, KAC was able to celebrate a point gained because the equalizer only came two seconds before the end.
“That can give us a boost. Because now it’s really about every point,” noted East Tyrolean Clemens Unterweger in his fifth season with the Carinthian Red Jackets and before the six-point match against Fehervar. The KAC have been missing a few top-class players for weeks (Pedersen, Haudum, Koch, Bischofsberger…): “But we don’t use the injured as an excuse. We still make a great team and now we have to find a way to win games,” notes Unterweger, who won two titles (2019, 2021) with KAC.
All 13 clubs named for the new season, and Jesenice from Slovenia, winner of the regular season in the Alps Hockey League, has also submitted an application for reinstatement (last in 2012). (lex)
