one after another...one by one...
this weekend 2 more top-tier European Leagues saw their Regular Season coming to the end: the Austrian Open Championship, the socalled EBEL and the Czech Tipsport Extraliga...
in Austria, once again Vienna Capitals proved themselves the best RS team with the surprising package, Graz 99ers following in second place at quite some distance...
KAC Klagenfurt (3rd), AVS Fehervar (HUN, 4th...the best among the foreign guests), Red Bull Salzburg (5th), HC Bolzano Foxies (ITA, 6th, the defending champions), EHL Linz (7th) and HC Znojmo (CZE, 8th) are the remaining teams qualified to the playoffs...
Playoffs that will start next Wednesday, March 13th with the quarterfinals (best-of-7 series) and these pairings: Vienna vs Znojmo; Graz vs Linz; Klagenfurt vs Bolzano/Bozen (one of the great "classics" in this league) and Fehervar vs RB Salzburg...
Full Details, Results, Rankings and more...here:
https://www.erstebankliga.at/
in the Czech League, instead, Bílí Tygři Liberec just edged out HC Oceláři Třinec (2nd) and HC Škoda Plzeň (3rd) in a thrilling finish...
Mountfield HK (4th), HC Kometa Brno (5th) and HC Olomouc (6th) also did qualify directly to the quarterfinals (best-of-7 series), meanwhile HC Vìtkovice Ridera (7th), BK Mladà Boleslav (8th), PSG Berani Zlìn (9th) and a very disappointing Sparta Prague (10th) will have to start their playoff campaign from the preliminary round (best-of-5 series: Vìtkovice vs Sparta and Mladà Boleslav vs Zlìn the pairings), which is scheduled to begin already later today...
once again, all detailed infos are available on the League's official website:
https://www.hokej.cz/