RAHL1 – Round 9 preview: Wild Thing Karaoke can make it 8 from 8, Hegely and Griglák go head to head

On Saturday 7 November RAHL1 plays round 9, reaching the halfway point of the 18-round regular season. Black Jokers have a bye, and the other eight teams meet in four games.

8:30 Wild Hogs – Uličníci. Uličníci are third with nine points and unbeaten in their last two games. Wild Hogs have six points and have lost twice in a row, 2:6 to HK Petržalka and 4:7 to Wild Thing Karaoke. Two of the league's three most productive players also meet: Vladimír Hegely (6+10) and Tomáš Griglák (6+9).

9:45 HK Petržalka – Mad Vipers. HK Petržalka have won five games in a row and have the league's best attack with 41 goals. Ľubomír Patlevič is the top scorer with ten goals and shares first place in the points table with Hegely on 16 points (10+6). Mad Vipers are eighth with three points and last won in round 3.

11:00 Neanderthals – AHS. Neanderthals beat Mad Vipers 5:2 in round 8 for their first win of the season, having scored just two goals in their previous six games. AHS are fifth with six points and have lost their last two games, 2:5 to Uličníci and 4:8 to HK Petržalka.

Uličníci – AHC Pezinok Ducks (round 5). Photo: RAHL

12:15 Wild Thing Karaoke – AHC Pezinok Ducks. The leaders have won all seven games and their 33:11 goal record includes the league's best defence. Ducks are seventh with five points, but last time out, on 17 October, they turned a 0:3 deficit against Black Jokers into a 5:4 win. Lukáš Opath scored four goals in that game and, with nine, is the league's second-best scorer. Ducks did not play in round 8.

Voting for the Superfanúšik Player of Round 8 in RAHL1 is open until Saturday 7 November at 8:30 on the Player of the Round page.