KAC EBEL champions
06 Apr 2013 | Alan Ilijic
KAC came back from a 0-2 deficit to beat the Vienna Capitals 5-3 in front of home crowd and claim a record 30th title. A sweep indeed and first time ever that someone did it in the Austrian championship final.
Although
KAC had the first chances in the game, it was the Capitals who opened the scoring.
Francois Fortier banged a one-timer past René Swette to give Vienna the lead.
At 08:46 KAC was already two goals down, Francois Fortier scored his second of
the night on the assist of Rafael Rotter. Before the end of the period KAC
managed to reduce the lead, Adran Veideman hooked Tyler Scofield and the
referee showed for a penalty shot. Scofield was precise and scored the opener
for KAC against helpless Matt Zaba.
The
second period was all about KAC. After Caps couldn't capitalize on powerplay, the punishment came. Midway through the period Tyler Scofield capitalized
on a pwoerplay and 36 seconds later Thomas Hundertpfund turned the game around
scoring a backhander. In continue, the Caps pressed to tie the game, but
Ferland only hit the post.
KAC
had the better of play also in the last period. Lammers' shot went wide and the
Caps then killed a powerplay. But Lammers' was the lucky man at 47:50 when he scored
with another extra man on the ice, assisted by Kirk Furey and Jamie Lundmark.
Just 4 minutes after Joshua Soares of Vienna got a game misconduct call at
52:34, visitors' coach Tommy Samuelsson decided to pull the goalie. It paid
off, seventeen seconds later Jonathan Ferland set the puck for Veideman who
scores past Swette. Zaba stayed on the bench which brough about an empty net
goal for KAC, Jamie Lundmark, the league's MVP, scored the game and series
winner. Game, set, match, as they'd say in tennis.