DEAC finished the regular season in 4th place, with 63 points (19 less than our team) and a goal difference of +26: 126-100 (compared to +57 of our team: 147-90).
In the regular season our team met DEAC 4 times and got as many victories:
September 29, 2020: DEAC – Corona “Wolves” Brașov: 3-4 OT (for our team scored Tomas Klempa, Roberto Gliga, Radim Valchar and Olivier Damme-Malka – OT).
December 11, 2020: Corona “Wolves” Brașov – DEAC: 4-1 (for our team scored: Carlo Finucci twice, Andrei Vasile and Ede Mihály).
January 21, 2021: DEAC – Corona “Wolves” Brașov: 1-2 SO (for our team scored Cody Carlson and Zsombor Molnár – SO).
January 28, 2021: Corona “Wolves” Brașov – DEAC: 3-1 (for our team scored: Daniel Trancă, Zsombor Molnár and Tomas Klempa).
In the quarterfinals DEAC eliminated UTE (6th place), after 5 games with an overall score of 4-1 (3-2, 4-3, 3-1, 2-3, 4-3 OT).
The DEAC team consists of 25 players: 3 goalkeepers, 8 defenders and 14 strikers (and the average age of the group is 24.4 years)
The team’s coach is the Czech David Musial (45 years old), helped by the “second” Hungarian Aron Kecskeméti (28 years old).
Team manager is the Hungarian Tamás Fucskó (26 years old).
The most experienced and titled “local” players are: goalkeeper Zoltán Hetényi (33 years old, passed through AHL and EBEL and one of the goalkeepers of the Hungarian national team) and the team captain: defender Akos Berta (33 years old, past player and UTE, Ferencváros and DVTK Jegesmedvék).
DEAC also has 7 foreigners in the group: the Czechs Vojtech Kloz (defender, 35 years old, also passed through the Slovak first league, the first British league and the first French league), Jan Dalecký (31 years old, striker, transferred from the first Danish league), Jakub Izacky (striker, 27, third season at DEAC), Dominik Novotny (striker, 27, third season at DEAC and him), Canadians Clint Filbrandt (25, second season at DEAC) ) and Hugo Turcotte (striker, 30 years old, established player in the Erste League, returned to DEAC this year after the season started at Dunaújvárosi Acélbikák) and the Russian Dmitri Pestunov (striker, 36 years old, player also passed through KHL, transferred at the beginning of this season from ACSH Gheorgheni).
Also at DEAC is the Russian striker Vladislav Kuleshov (22 years old) but who occupies a “native” position, being trained in Hungarian hockey and the Serbian defender (naturalized Hungarian) Vedran Bogesic (19 years old).
The main scorers for DEAC in the regular season were the Czechs Jan Dalecký (43 points), Dominik Novotny (32 points), Jakub Izacky (28 points) and Vojtech Kloz (25 points).
In the quarterfinals against UTE the best scorers of the team were: Vladislav Kuleshov (7 points: 4 goals and 3 assists), Hugo Turcotte (4 points: 2 goals and 2 assists) and Ákos Berta (4 points : 2 goals and 2 assists).
Goalkeeper Zoltán Hetényi achieved an efficiency of 93.27% in the regular season and 94.71% in the quarterfinals against UTE.
DEAC plays a fast, offensive game with a very aggressive pressing and is one of the very good teams of the Erste League. It is a team with a very good “home” game, our team being one of the few teams in the league that managed to win both regular games on the ice in Debrecen in the regular season.
In the last game of the quarterfinals against UTE (ended with a 4-3 OT victory) coach David Musial used the following “lines”:
Zoltán Hetényi (reserve Lajos Gönczi).
L1: Clint Filbrandt – Vojtech Kloz / Jakub Izacky – Dominik Novotny – Hugo Turcotte.
L2: Roland Kiss – Florian Sándor / Jan Dalecký – Norbert Hári – Vladislav Kuleshkov.
L3: Ákos Berta – Vedran Bogesic / Patrik Kiss – Dániel Mazzag – David Molnár
L4: Ferenc Kozma – David Szücs.
The series against DEAC will start tomorrow, March 16, on the Brașov Olympic Skating Rink (starting with 18:30), the second game of the series will also be played in Brașov the day after tomorrow, March 17 (at the same time) and will continue with the next two away games in Debrecen on March 20 and 21.