Machine-translated from Hungarian.
All that remained of the Andersen League’s regular season was to play our postponed or abandoned matches; first up, we hosted the Worm Angels on Thursday evening at the Nemak Ice Rink. We played our first match of the season away against the Dunaújváros side, where we suffered a defeat, so the lads were looking forward to this fixture as a chance for revenge.
Accordingly, in the first period we put immense pressure on the visitors’ goal right from the start; they managed to hold out until the 8th minute, after which the ‘steamroller’ got rolling. Nesterov, Morozov, Marth, Almási and Lévai all found gaps in the defence, so by the end of the first 20 minutes the match seemed all but decided.
We slowed the pace down a little in the second period, allowing our opponents to get into their stride on several occasions, but thanks to our solid defence, the visitors were unable to capitalise on our reduced tempo; this was partly down to the superb saves made by **Martin Szeles, who had been injured, thanks to some superb saves by Ákos Mészáros. What’s more, midway through the period, Bence Marth scored his second goal, further extending our lead.
The final third was almost a carbon copy of the previous one, with the difference that this time Majoross scored the only goal of the period – and indeed the last of the match – thereby sealing the final result.
We won our final match of the regular season with a steady, confident performance, never once relinquishing control. Later that day, we were informed that Szeged had withdrawn from Saturday’s fixture (which was therefore awarded to us as a 5–0 victory), thus bringing the Andersen League regular season to an end for us, which we finished in first place with 42 points! Next week, the play-offs begin, and we’ll be facing Jászberény for a place in the last four. Come on, UNI GYŐR ETO!
UNI GYŐR ETO HC vs Worm Angels: 7 – 0 (AL37) Goalscorers: **#9 Filipp Nesterov, #21 Kirill Morozov, #6 Bence Marth (2), #12 Márk Almási, #15 Norbert Lévai, #22 Barnabás Majoross (UNI GYŐR ETO) **
We’ve put together a selection of the best photos from the match in our gallery: