Stefan Gaffal: Without his personal happiness, “I would have been broken by the past season”

There are those podcast interviews that send shivers down your spine while you’re recording them. The conversation with Stefan Gaffal was one of those. The 28-year-old Black Wings striker speaks bluntly about, among other things, his terrible accident when a teammate’s shot hit him in the back of the head below the helmet in the home game against HC Pustertal on September 24, 2023.

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A shot that could have had fatal consequences if it had hit the neck a few centimeters below. The man from Linz talks about the way back on the ice and the setbacks that cost him the entire 2024/25 season and what role personal luck played in it. “My daughter saved me from falling into a hole. I owe her a lot,” concludes Gaffal.

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