EBEL: Bozen turns KAC off, Black Wings are in the semi-finals

The sixth matchday has brought the decision in all quarter-final duels of the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League. The Vienna Capitals, Red Bull Salzburg, Black Wings Linz and HCB Südtirol made it to the semi-finals on Tuesday with their fourth victories each.

The Capitals defeated Innsbruck 5-3 away, the defending champion will now face Bolzano in the semi-final on Sunday as in the pre-season, which sent runners-up KAC into the early holiday with a 2-0 home win. Salzburg celebrated a convincing 6-2 success in Dornbirn. The seven-time champion now has to deal with Linz, the Black Wings fixed their progress with a hard-fought 5:4 in Zagreb.

The Capitals took a 2-0 first break in Innsbruck thanks to goals from Vause (5th) and Rotter (12th/PP). But a little more than three minutes after the restart the match was balanced again, Lammers (21./PP) and Bishop (24.) from a penalty set 2:2. Soon after the start of the final third, Yogan even took the lead in Innsbruck, but the favourite from Vienna beat Tessier (56./PP) and Nödl (56.) twice in the final phase. The final decision was taken by Vause (59./EN).

Salzburg took the quick lead in Dornbirn with Brouillette (2nd), but Arniel equalised in the sixth minute. goals from Cijan in the first section and Captain Trattnig per Penalty after half an hour put the bulls back on the road to success. A double blow from Schremp (44th) and Trattnig (46th) meant the preliminary decision. To the 2:5 of Arniel (49.) the Salzburgers also had an answer through Duncan (59./EN).

In Bolzano, both teams started cautiously. A two-man superior game brought the initially somewhat better South Tyrolean in the 13th minute. Angelidis took the lead in the second minute. As a result, the record champion from Carinthia increasingly took over the command, but the Klagenfurt team failed to score a goal despite more matches. The Bozenians remained dangerous from counterattacks and finally cheered in the 52nd minute. minute over the winning 2-0. DeSousa faked a shot untenably and KAC did not recover from it.

On the day after his 4:3 victory after extra time, Hofer was again in Zagreb, who scored in the 16th minute. Minute in the power play for the Black Wings Linz the 1:0 scored. In the second third an exchange of blows developed, which brought up to the last break a 3:2 of the Croatians. The last third, however, belonged to the Linz team, with two goals from Lebler (41st, 44th) and a Schofield goal (50th) turning the match around. The hosts only scored the second goal with Morley (56th/PP2) scoring three times.