Machine-translated from Hungarian.
On Saturday afternoon, in our sixth Andersen League match, we visited HKB at the Tüskesátor in Budapest. We arrived on a run of four straight wins across all competitions, most recently a last-minute victory over DUE WORM Angels in the Halloween top-of-the-table clash. We met HKB twice in the league last season and won both games. Noah Áron Simo started in goal.
In the 10th minute Hajnal’s penalty gave us a power play, and we made it count: in the 11th minute Sebestyén Csata put us ahead from passes by Ádám Balogh and István Szűcs (0–1). In the 18th minute Miklós Wenner doubled our lead, set up by Botond Horváth and Szabolcs Beck (0–2). We outshot the hosts 21–5 in the first period.
Early in the second period, in the 22nd minute, Keve Bendegúz Sárkány extended our lead from passes by Botond Fekete and Géza Kocsis (0–3). In the 26th minute, with Miklós Wenner in the box, Török pulled one back from Glofák’s pass (1–3), and a minute later the home side were awarded a penalty shot, but it did not produce a goal. Ákos Tompos in the 30th minute and Botond Fekete in the 31st were each given two minutes, so we played two men short for just over a minute. The home side called a time-out, but we killed it off, and in the 33rd minute it was our turn to score: Ádám Balogh netted our fourth goal from passes by István Szűcs and András Balogh (1–4). Late in the period we also killed Sebestyén Csata’s penalty, and we had the edge in shots on goal, 19–16.
In the final period we had two power plays after penalties to Bányai and Hajnal. Neither produced a goal, but late on we struck twice in 66 seconds: in the 53rd minute Sebestyén Csata got his second of the game from a pass by Bence Makovics (1–5), and in the 54th minute Szabolcs Beck scored his first goal of the season from a pass by Ákos Tompos (1–6). In the 57th minute we took a two-minute penalty for too many men on the ice, but we killed that one as well. We outshot the hosts 20–4 in the period.
That makes five wins in a row: we outshot the hosts 60–25 at the Tüskesátor; Noah Áron Simo made 24 saves, and Balázs stopped 54 shots at the other end. The win takes us to 15 points and second place in the Western Group, three points behind MAC Budapest AHC. A cup game comes next: on Tuesday 10 November at 6 pm we are away to UTE at the Újpesti Jégcsarnok, with a single game deciding who progresses in the Hungarian Cup.
Hajrá UNI GYŐR ETO!
HKB vs UNI GYŐR ETO HC: 1 – 6 (AL61)
Goalscorers: #10 Sebestyén Csata (2), #53 Miklós Wenner, #71 Keve Bendegúz Sárkány, #56 Ádám Balogh, #27 Szabolcs Beck (UNI GYŐR ETO), #97 Török (HKB)
Photos from the Tüskesátor in the gallery.
Fotó: UNI GYŐR ETO HC