This time the KAC did not allow Linz ice hockey record night

“If it has to be, we play all night. They are the play-offs, there is no tiredness,” said Logan Roe, ice hockey defender of the Steinbach Black Wings, after four wins en suite and incredible seven matches with an extension in a row.

But in the second semi-final it turned out differently, at 9:41 p.m. the final siren sounded in the Linz-AG-Ice-Arena, which was completely sold out with 4865 fans. Austria’s record champion Kac kept the upper hand after “only” 60 minutes – there should also be something like that – with 4: 2 (2: 1, 1: 1, 1: 0).

No overtime, but also no trace of resignation on the Linz side. Why too? At 1-1 in the best-of-7 series, both teams move back to Klagenfurt, where on Sunday (5.30 p.m., LiveTicker on Nachrichten.at and Puls 24) Game 3 will take place.

“The chances were there”

The Upper Austrians change something in the immediate preparation. You travel to Carinthia on Saturday to sleep well and to strike back to some extent.

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“The chances were there to put it in 2-0. We did not use them, we have to knock them in in Klagenfurt. It continues,” said striker Andreas Kristler, who had had the 3: 3 on the racket in the 58th minute.

The cross pass on Nico Feldner was too imprecise, instead of a draw and extension it was called 2: 4 shortly afterwards. Mathias from sank the puck in the empty network 21 seconds before the end.

“It is an incredible honor”

This time the KAC seemed a nuance more lively, it had the faster legs and also the morality not to be able to get out of the frame from an early 0-1 deficit. Black-Wings defender Niklas Würschl, who had spent four years of his career at the “Rotjacken” from the south, pulled off and tore the loud and tireless audience from the seats (5th).

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