RAHL3 – Round 6: 68 goals, Rockets score twelve, Filak nets four, and Admirals still haven't dropped a point

Round six of RAHL3 was the highest-scoring of the season: 68 goals were scored in eight games, an average of eight and a half per game. Rockets put twelve goals past Márna Snaha, Admirals won their sixth game as well, and Tomaš Filak of HC Lev Senec scored four goals in a single game.

Rockets actually trailed in their game against Márna Snaha. Dávid Boháč opened the scoring on the power play in just the second minute, but Rockets then answered with four straight goals – Peter Demeter, Michal Gago, Miroslav Wieger and Gago again. Before the break, Daniel Kondla cut it to 2:4. In the second half the visitors scored eight goals, two of them in the span of six seconds (Lubo Maxián and Martin Kadrliak). The final score of 3:12 has a clear hero: Demeter scored a hat trick and added three assists, while Matej Murcko had a 1+4 line. Gago, Kadrliak and Maxián also scored two goals each. Rockets have scored 25 goals in their last two games.

TJ Družstevník Petržalka beat Ice Punkers 9:4, even though it trailed 2:3 after the first half. The visitors led on goals by Marek Ondriš, Braňo Balaško and Ivan Fedor. After the break, however, the home team scored seven goals: Miloš Barna tied it, Rudi Rehák turned the game around on the power play, and late in the game Družstevník scored four goals in under two and a half minutes. Lukáš Bučko and Ivan Brauner each scored twice, and Bučko added two assists.

HC Lev Senec – Admirals (Round 1). Photo: RAHL

HC Lev Senec beat AHC Pezinok Grapes 5:1, and the game belonged to one player. Tomaš Filak opened the scoring in the fourth minute, and when Matej Varga tied it on the power play 28 seconds later, the teams went into the break at 1:1. In the second half Filak scored three more goals, and Richard Pokryvka added the fifth. Michal Maličký assisted on four of the five goals. Filak is the first player to score four goals in a single game this RAHL3 season.

Admirals remain the only team in the league that hasn't dropped a point. They beat HC Vikings Petržalka 6:1 and settled it in the first half, which they won 4:0 – Filip Francisty scored two goals in 34 seconds. Michal Andel, Patrik Bučič, Tomáš Timko and Emil Dunda also scored, with Tomáš Ondriska replying for the visitors.

Beers picked up their first win of the season. They beat Ľadoborci 6:1, with two goals each from Branislav Navrátil and Štefan Rybnikár and the others from Juraj Mackovič and Kamil Krajnak. Royals ended a two-game losing streak with a 5:1 win on Pressburg Reapers' ice: Matej Buřil scored at the 45-second mark and finished the game with a 2+2 line, and Zoltán Juhász answered the home team's only goal just twelve seconds later.

Two games wrapped up the round on Sunday. HC Bratislava Black Wings beat Alpha Hockey Team 6:3 and won for the fifth time in a row. Karol Vida and Roland Tancer built a 2:0 halftime lead, and seven goals followed in the second half – Matej Blahút scored two, and Matus Cipak scored twice for Alpha. Hockey for all beat Knights 4:1, with Riso Huttera scoring two goals.

How the standings look. In Group A, Admirals lead with a perfect twelve points and a goal record of 31:4 – they have allowed only four goals in six games. One point behind them is TJ Družstevník Petržalka, which is also still unbeaten (five wins and a tie). There is a big gap behind this pair: third-place Royals have six points. With their first win, Beers moved up from last place to fifth, and Knights sit at the bottom of the group with one point.

Group B is tighter. Rockets lead with eleven points and a goal record of 46:8, and right behind them with ten points are Hockey for all and HC Bratislava Black Wings. HC Lev Senec moved up to fourth place with its win and has the best defense in the group, with six goals allowed. It jumped over AHC Pezinok Grapes, who after four wins to open the season lost for the second time in a row and dropped from first place after round four to fifth. Pressburg Reapers are winless with a goal record of 6:35.

HC Lev Senec – Admirals (Round 1). Photo: RAHL

Notes from the round. Home teams won six of the eight games. Two games ended 6:1 and another two 5:1. The round brought two hat tricks – Filak's four-goal game and Demeter's – and there have now been ten in the RAHL3 season.

Goals came in bunches. Rockets scored twice in six seconds, Royals answered an opponent's goal in twelve seconds, Hockey for all answered a Knights goal in eighteen, and Admirals scored two goals in 34 seconds. Michal Maličký of HC Lev Senec collected four points without a single goal, and Peter Demeter of Rockets had six points in one game.

Tomáš Ondriska of HC Vikings Petržalka had a game of two faces: he was penalized three times and still scored his team's only goal. Alpha Hockey Team lost for the fifth time in a row and is sixth in Group A, while Rockets are averaging 7.7 goals per game after six rounds.

The scoring race is dominated by Rockets. On top with fourteen points are Peter Demeter (8+6, five games) and Matej Murcko (5+9, only four games). Zdeno Mikuláśko of Royals (6+5), Martin Kadrliak of Rockets (4+7) and Ivan Havelka of Hockey for all (4+7) have eleven points each. Five of the top nine are Rockets players. The top goal scorers, with eight goals, are Demeter and Karol Vida of HC Bratislava Black Wings.

Round 7 – Saturday, October 17:
13:30 HC Vikings Petržalka – Beers
15:15 Márna Snaha – Hockey for all
16:30 Ice Punkers – AHC Pezinok Grapes
17:45 Pressburg Reapers – TJ Družstevník Petržalka
19:00 Royals – HC Lev Senec
20:15 Knights – Alpha Hockey Team

Sunday, October 18:
13:30 Ľadoborci – Admirals
14:45 Rockets – HC Bratislava Black Wings

The marquee matchup comes at the very end of the round: Rockets, with the league's best offense, host Black Wings, who have won five in a row and trail them by a single point. Admirals will defend their perfect record on Ľadoborci's ice, and HC Lev Senec will put its defense to the test against Royals.