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Christmas time is hockey time. 18 games between Christmas and New Year make up the traditional X-Mas-Games this season. No In the past, the team was as successful in this phase as the spusu Vienna Capitals.
Three rounds are traditionally completed between Christmas and New Year’s Eve in the win2day ICE Hockey League. More points are played within six days than in any other phase of the season. In addition, the first preliminary decisions in the fight for the top 6 and thus for the first fixed quarter-final tickets are often made at this time. Not least because of this, the “X-Mas-Games” are often dubbed the most important games of the regular season.
Caps usually ignite New Year’s Eve fireworks in X-Mas-Games
A look at the history books of the multinational league reveals that the spusu Vienna Capitals were able to use this phase most successfully. The Viennese won 37 of their previous 54 games in the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, conquering an impressive 2,074 points per game. Over the past 20 years, the Caps not only have an average of just under 0.5 points higher than their all-time average at Christmas, but also surpass the season point average of the current table leaders (HCI) of the win2ay ICE Hockey League.
Pustertal and Salzburg controlled the X-Mas-Games last year
Last season, HC Pustertal made a successful debut in its first X-Mas-Game. With two wins from three games, last year’s newcomer is second in the X-Mas Games table, followed by EC Red Bull Salzburg, which last season was the only team to score maximum points in this period.
Medieninfo win2day ICE Hockey LEague
25.12.2022
