Defeat in extra time: Kloten demands everything from SC Bern

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If you want to sum up the often unfair life of a goalkeeper, then this game is perfect for it. Juha Metsola is the tragic hero of the game. The Finn saves shot after shot, in the end he makes 40, keeps the 2: 2 against SCB for the promoted Kloten and saves his team in extra time. But because he threw a fast break too quickly and didn’t hit the puck properly, he allowed Bern’s Tristan Scherwey to score a free goal for the win. After that, Metsola can also collect the gift for the election of the best player: heaven and hell in seconds.

3: 2 after 0: 2 – for the SCB there is the second happy ending in 24 hours recovering, also on Friday against Rapperswil-Jona the Bernese won 3: 2 after falling behind by 1: 2 at the beginning of the third final .

Three players outside, three players inside

Despite the defeat, EHC Kloten can bring with them some positive aspects of tonight, not just the point of reaching extra time. His manager Jeff Tomlinson does not have an available team that would have been called National League eligible in recent years. The climber can’t help it, in the last two years there has only been promotion to Corona, but no relegation. And so newcomers Ajoie and Kloten on the player market couldn’t hold back with a relegated team.

What Kloten has for this is the breadth of the squad. This allows Tomlinson to maneuver like those against Bern. The night before, Kloten had lost 0: 7 in Davos, which resulted in the manager making three changes. He takes Alexei Dostoinov, Martin Ness and Luca Capaul out of the lineup, the first two are proven strikers in NL, the second a talented defender who was brought to Kloten by the ZSC organization. In the grid he puts forward Kevin Lindemann (20), who celebrates his debut in NL, and Andri Spiller, in addition to defender Matteo Nodari.

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And Tomlinson orders his talented defender David Reinbacher to join the first pair of defenders alongside Swedish defense chief Lucas Ekestahl-Jonsson. At the end of the day, the only 17-year-old Austrian was on the ice for nearly 15 minutes, more than ever in his third NL game.