In addition to two announcements of old files tied up in its time by Jan Alston – the signatures of Mauro Jörg and Justin Krueger – as well as the extension of Benjamin Antonietti, the Lausanne HC also announced last week that it had concluded a partnership with the HCV Martigny, which works in the MySports League, the third division. According to the terms disclosed to the press, six Lausanne players will play at the Forum next season. Instinctively, we imagine that they will be juniors of the Vaudoise aréna club. But who? “I doubt they have six capable of truly strengthening Martigny,” said a source close to the club.
Because it is indeed a good of reinforcements of which it is a question, since the goal of the agreement is support for the accession of its first team, HCV Martigny, to the Swiss League. Following the example of Zug (EVZ Academy), Zurich (GCK Lions) or Geneva (Sierre), the Vaudois training wishes to have an additional step in its training pyramid.
If some elite juniors could obviously benefit from a passage in Valais, the loaned elements would be especially, according to our information, players who are not yet under contract with Lausanne HC.
Others in Biasca
But who? To find the answer to this question, you have to turn to Swiss players (or Swiss license) who do not yet have a contract in the Swiss League. By deduction and with the help of other clubs “rejected” by the players in question, we quickly fall on the tracks of the attackers Dominik Volejnicek (22 years, Zug Academy), Emilijus Krakauskas (22 years, Kloten, Lithuanian with Swiss license) ), Marco Cavalleri (20, Biasca) and defender Kristian Suleski (22, Langenthal). In addition, a junior at the end of his training also seems to be packing his bags: the striker Nicholas Heini (20 years old, Davos).
In order to remedy the glaring lack of depth of last season, Lausanne also seems on the verge of signing two players with the idea of lending them to Biasca in the Swiss League. Thus, Lee Roberts’ contract has a good chance of being extended in the near future, while Rihards Puide (23, GCK Lions, Latvian with Swiss license) is in the small papers of Petr Svoboda. The latter is none other than the cousin of Ronalds Kenins, a Baltic player from the Vaudoise arena.
For the moment, no signature has been affixed on the contracts of the players mentioned above, even if the contacts are advanced. But one thing seems certain: the Lausanne HC wants to create a pyramid similar to that which can be found in North America with high permeability between the different floors and, at the same time, greater competition. Preparing for the LHC could even be like a real training camp where everyone will have a chance to prove their worth and get their place in the National League.
This is the plan put together by Petr Svoboda and the Lausanne board. It now remains to put it in place.
Created: 09.06.2020, 10h33
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