When the “Hex ??” sticks to the racket, then even games that seem to have been won are lost. Ask the Steinbach Black Wings, who yesterday with the 4: 5 (2: 2, 1: 0, 1: 2/0: 1) after extra time in the “basement derby” against Dornbirn the club’s negative record with seven defeats en suite of the 2005/06 season.
The circumstances were very unfortunate: The 740 fans in the Linz-AG-Eisarena had already clapped in the supposed victory before Kevin Hancock scored 4: 4 (60th) with the final siren.
Even the referees’ double video study failed to save the Wings from overtime, in which Stefan Häussle was supposed to become the match winner for the Vorarlberg team (62nd).
Firstly, the match clock had not yet run out when the last second hit occurred, and secondly, the offside position of the Dornbirner, which was claimed by Linz co-trainer Mark Szücs, could not be determined. The fact that the “Urfahraner Beisl Teifl ?? n” appeared on the ice after the game fits the situation of the league straggler, for whom the play-off train is as good as left. This one point hardly brings the team of trainer Raimo Summanen any further, three points that were within reach would at least have been good for the soul.
“It’s frustrating! We couldn’t reward ourselves again”, annoyed Stefan Gaffal, the shooter of the 3: 2 (37th) in the middle third, which is strong from Linz’s point of view. (Alex)
Source: Nachrichten
