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Game Preview – Quarter Final Game 4: SC Bern vs EVZ | EV train

Playoffs have their own laws and are a particular challenge, especially for the favored teams. This is confirmed once again by the current quarter-finals: In three of four series, the team that was worse placed in the regular season leads after three games!

The exception is the best-of-7 series between the EVZ and SC Bern, in which the Zugers, who were favored as qualifying winners, took a 2-1 lead. Dan Tangnes’ team showed the 3-0 home win the fans hoped for and those in charge expected reaction to the 6-2 defeat in the first away game in the federal city. “On Thursday we fell apart as a team. On Saturday we showed a strong team performance and only gave our opponents a few chances to score. Now we’re going to Bern with a good feeling and we know what to do, ”said the head coach, summing up his feelings after the 3-0 win.

Striker Sven Leuenberger, a reliable hard worker and one of the best Zugers in the three playoff games so far, is confident for today’s duel. “The last performance wasn’t great, but it was an important step forward. We are slowly finding our way back to our speed hockey, in the last game in Bern we focused too much on the opponent. ”Above all, the defensive work was a class better on Saturday and formed the basis for the third season shutout for Leonardo Genoni.

In the qualification, the Zugers were by far the strongest away team, but they lost the last two away games, the last in the qualification (3: 5 in Langnau) and the first quarter-final match in Bern (2: 6). Tonight is the first away win in the playoffs. It is questionable whether one of the convalescent regular players (Raphael Diaz, Yannick-Lennart Albrecht, Calvin Thürkauf) can help with this project. SC Bern will have to do without Jesper Olofsson, who left on Saturday after an unfortunate fall into the gang in the 18th minute with a suspected concussion.


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