SAPA Fehervar AV19 versus HK Acroni Jesenice saw the Hosts attack fervently, but Gasper Kroselj stood strong. His adversary, Adam Munro was seldom tested in odd-man-rushes. A quick attack gave the Home side the lead. Balasz Ladanyi directed a pass by Marton Vas into the net under Kroselj. Little later, Antti Pusa capitalized on a changing mistake by the Hunagarian team. His shot from distance was defelcted past a hehelpless Adam Munro.
After the break, Csaba Kovacs got the Rebound following Arpad Mihalys shot and the puck bounced off a Jesenice defender for the lead. Kroselj stood tall against the Devils, who were desperate for the insurance marker. He held on with a set of bravura saves, but fell 90 seconds from the second interval, when the defence followed Istvan Sofron closely. Too closely, as the winger set up Marton Vas for an easy tip-in.
The final period borught nor more goals, mainly because the visitors Andrej Tavzelj and Jonathan Juliano failed to find the net, as did the hosts Kovacs and Ladanyi. SAPA Fehervar AV19 are in the placement round of the intermediate stage and qualified for the Play-offs.

What they said
Kevin Primeau, Headcoach SAPA Fehervar AV19:
„We have reached our first goal. I am very happy that with disciplined effort we managed to collect these very important points in a rather difficult game. I am satisfied with our penalty-killing performance which contributed to our success.“
Heikki Mälkiä, Headcoach HK Acroni Jesenice:
„Unfortunately none of our players were up to their level. We were not focused enoug with the exception of our goalie. We have a young team, sometimes we show an inconsistent performance and this happened today.”

Zagreb lose in Overtime
Once again, Zagreb Arena was packed, fitting in more than 15.000 spectators. Michael Ouzas and Bernhard Starkbaum started in goal for their respective teams. Both teams had an extremely slow start to the game by both teams. The tempo picked up at the end of the period and VSV created a big chance of the rush, by far the biggest chance of the period but Ouzas makes a good butterfly stop. Medveš%u010Dak got called for slashing late in the period, Ivan Šijan went into the box and there was less than a minute to play in the first VSV had the first power play of the game.
Medveš%u010Dak got their first PP chance early in the second after VSV’s captain Marco Pewal got called for tripping. Right after the power play, Ryan Kinasewich went in alone but missed glove side high. Another Powerplay came at the half game mark, when Stefan Bacher got called for hooking. The power play itself doesn’t do much, but it turned the momentum in favor of Medveš%u010Dak who kept pressing hard. Starkbaum remained strong, though. At the end of the second Tom Zanoški and Matt Siddall engaged Kevin Mitchell and Bacher in some fisticuffs which brought the crowd to their feet and all four players got a Rest period of minutes.
In the third, the Bears took the lead after Vyacheslav Trukhno fired the Puck into the small whole left open by Starkbaum at knee-height to score goal number 500 for Medvescak in Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. Immediately after, Sasa Martinovic and Zanoški got called for penalties and VSV went on a 5-on-3-Powerplay. Kevin Mitchell assisted on Michael Craig’s goal after Craig got a tap from the Defenders’ trademark slapshot to level the score at 1:1. Roland Kaspitz got called for spearing so Medveš%u010Dak got a late five Minute at the end of the third period, but failed to capitalize.
The Overtime followed, Medvescak lost the momentum and the man-advantage and Gerhard Unterluggauger scored the game winner in 4-on-3.

Linz stay on course, beat Salzburg
EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz saw holders EC Red Bull Salzburg coming in to Keine-Sorgen-Eis-Arena and beat the reigning champions in a close encounter. Ramzi Abid equalized Danny Irmens’ opening goal - still in the first.
Fabian Scholz and Irmen made it 3:1 in the second. In the third Matt Trattnig clawed one back, only to see Curtis Murphy score the 4:2 on the Man-Advanatge. Jeremy Williams’ goal for the 4:3 six minutes from time was a rallying cry, but Alex Westlund held on to the win with a strong glove hand.

15.01.2012: SAPA Fehervar AV19 – HK Acroni Jesenice 3:1 (1:1, 2:0, 0:0)
Goals Szekesfehervar: 1:0 Ladanyi (8.), 2:1 Kovacs (23.), 3:1 Vas (38.)
Goals Jesenice: 1:1 Pusa (11.)

KHL Medvescak Zagreb – EC REKORD-Fenster VSV 1:2. FOT (0:0, 0:0, 1:1, 0:1)
Goals Zagreb: 1:0 Trukhno (44.)
Goals Villach: 1:1 Craig (46./PP2), 1:2 Unterluggauer (64./PP)

EHC Liwest Black Wings Linz – EC Red Bull Salzburg 4:3
(1:1, 2:0, 1:2)
Goals Linz: 1:0, 3:1 Irmen (14., 32./pp), 2:1 Scholz (28.), 4:2 Murphy (46./pp)
Goals Salzburg: 1:1 Abid (20.), 3:2 Trattnig (41.), 4:3 Williams (54.)