The game: After his debut in Bern, the new trainer Hans Kossmann compared the SCB with an oil tanker. “Turning it takes time,” said the 57-year-old, who had at least 10 days before the duel against his former employer ZSC to implement his ideas.
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They want to play faster, more straightforward. Attack and force the enemy to make mistakes. Sounds good. But the whole thing always leads to misplay and illegal liberation strikes. The Berners lead 2-0 after 20 minutes. Why, they probably don’t know themselves.
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The SCB exploits his first (!) Chance of scoring after eight minutes, after the Zurich team failed ten times and a bad luck with a post shot (Pius Suter). The 2: 0 nine minutes later Thomas Rüfenacht scores.
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The 34-year-old is again used as a center alongside Captain Simon Moser and Marc Kämpf. The striker is not worried about the precarious situation of his team. He says: “It’s great when everyone is so tense and there is pressure. In the past few years, we knew before the game that we would win. It gets boring in the long run. »
It won’t get boring against Zurich either. The game is an up and a down. And as felt in every second game, Bern manages to regain its lead under new leadership.
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The master leads twice with two goals. Lions can shorten twice, equalize. «We are still too fragile in our zone. If the opponent puts pressure on us, we make too many mistakes, »says Kossmann.
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The SCB vigorously seeks the decision in the last third, but fails again and again. And so the Bernese have to go into extra time for the 15th time this season.
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There Tristan Scherwey has the match puck on the stick, but fails at the edge of the goal. A minute later, the double suter makes everything clear.
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“Every point is a point,” says Kossmann. The SCB at least makes up a place, but is still the bottom line. It is the second bankruptcy in the third game under the Swiss-Canadian. Leader Zug is coming on Friday. (A.)
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The best: Pius Suter (ZSC). Put together a double pack just like before the national break against Lausanne.
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The plum: – Tomi Karhunen (SCB). The goalie must take the 3: 3 on his cap, misses.
The game: After the 0: 3, many Tigers players drive past their keeper Punnenovs. Probably to cheer him up. But they should have apologized. With the first and third goals, the Langnauer let their goalkeeper more than just down.
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Taking care of ricochets in front of Punnenovs doesn’t seem to be a favorite pastime of any tiger. Just as little as intensive duels. And that DiDomenico’s frustration potential is noticeable at such a rapid pace is not helpful for the team either.
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The Canadian, who was fined the same day for faking a foul, still gives the linesman the tariff with a “Don’t touch me!” When he wants to move him towards the penalty box. Instead of bundling his energies to catch up, she fizzles out in skirmishes.
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After the 1: 4, he also takes on Lakers supporters who sit above the players’ bench. And seems to want to meet with them for after the match – hardly to exchange ideas …
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First of all, however, the Tigers would have to worry about their poor performance, which has caused them to slide under the line for the first time since November 15. Are you running out of breath on the home straight? Or do you let coach Ehrlers say nothing more? (N.V.)
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Smack against tail light
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The best: Andrew Rowe (SCRJ). The captain goes ahead.
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The plum: Chris DiDomenico (Tigers). Big mouth instead of big deeds. So he harms his team in the stick fight more than he helps him.
The game: What a slap in the face that Ambri gave the rival from Lugano a week before Christmas. 7: second This cost the Bianconeri coach, the Finn Sami Kapanen, the next morning the job.
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However, the current HC Lugano under Serge Pelletier gives a completely different picture. Under him, the team plays extremely solid and stylish. Nothing can be seen of fluttering nerves.
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Ambri can still compensate for the Suri lead by Müller. But then someone strikes who had been bewitched in the past few weeks. Luca Fazzini, the born goalkeeper, just hadn’t hit the mark anymore.
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Also in the Prospects Games with the Nati against Germany two of his shots landed on the post in the first game in Herisau, before he then played the keeper in the penalty shoot-out with the keeper and mouse. But now it works in the dress of Lugano, where he has scored a single goal in the last 21 games (at the 2-7 debacle in Ambri).
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After that, Ambri finds no way to conquer goalie Niklas Schlegel again. And with a counter goal, Alessio Bertaggia makes everything clear. In the end it is even 5: 1, a result that reflects the contested dash derby only imprecisely. (Sr)
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Revenge for 2: 7 debacle
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The rumor: The Swedish center Johan Ryno (33) is leaving Färjestad, where he was no longer able to move, and is expected to join Lugano by the end of the season.
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The jubilee: Lugano’s Julien Vauclair (40) contests his 100th derby. Of the 728 players who have so far played in the duels of the Ticino rivals, only Ambri’s ex-Captain Nicola Celio has one more game than him.
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The best: Luca Fazzini (Lugano). The man from the Mendrisiotto likes to trump in the derbies.
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The plum: Matt D’Agostini (Ambri). At 1: 2, the target does not get out of the third.
The game: After four wins in five games, Friborg is also making a decisive start in the fight for the playoffs in Biel. The guests, who have to get by without their injured top scorer Mottet, are already 3-0 ahead after a quarter of an hour. Particularly hot: Daniel Brodin. The Swede, who shot Lausanne alone last Saturday with a pack of four, only scores in excess and then outnumbered. In between, Flavio Schmutz scored his first goal of the season at 2-0.
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Biel’s defense? Totally disoriented. But the Seeländer stay cool, improve and turn the tide – thanks to the best powerplay in the league – up to the 43rd minute. The turning point is well deserved, the Zeelanders are unlucky with three metal hits. But Kuenzles 4: 3 at the beginning of the final third is far from the decision. Because Gottéron strikes back and turns the crazy game upside down with two goals within nine (!) Seconds. In the 4: 5 Biel goalie Hiller briefly lost orientation, wanted to drive behind the goal, but the target did not get there and Vauclair hit free in front of the box. But that is still not the final punch line, Fey equalizes to 5: 5 five minutes before the impending end.
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The logical consequence of this spectacle: extension. There Stalberg only hits the post for the guests in the Powerplay. And so it comes as it has to come, namely to shoot a penalty. In this, Gottéron captain meets Julien Sprunger twice as ice-cold – and thus shoots his team across the board. (C. S.)
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In the spectacle win against Biel
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The best: Sprunger (Friborg). Ice cold in the penalty shootout.
The game: A top fight. Unstressed by line worries, Davos and Geneva show exhilarating sport with lots of esprit and spectacular interludes. Davos keeps the points because the Graubünden finish a little more precisely and Joren van Pottelberghe puts his counterpart Robert Mayer in the thigh. HCD trainer Christian Wohlwend has to get upset about his future goalkeeper when he lies down somewhat theatrically after a slight contact with Dario Meyer. Does it have to be that way?
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After a first period of pressure from the Geneva team, the American Aaron Palushaj (18th goal of the season) provided the lead with a splendid sweep, which the efficient defender Jung cemented with 2-0. With the connection goal in the majority, Servette can build up some pressure again, but against the well-organized defense of the Grisons, there is no longer a green branch. A mature achievement by HC Davos, who can celebrate the second victory in a row. (D.K.)
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With this hit Jung puts the lid on it—-
The best: Van Pottelberghe (Davos). Safe, cool, with lots of good parades at the right time.
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The plum: Mayer (Geneva). One can discuss the goals against them, but not the acting.
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The goals: 5. Palushaj (Kienzle) 1-0. 29. Young (M. Wieser) 2-0. 56.Smirnovs (Tömmernes / PP) 2-1.
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Here is the game to read in the ticker.
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EV Zug – Lausanne HC 3-0
The game: Anyone hoping for a spectacle in the duel between the two most defensive teams in the league will be disappointed for a long time. The EVZ got off to a better start and, after missing a major opportunity, took the lead after almost ten minutes early. After that, however, nothing follows for a long time.
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In a sometimes viscous game with little chance of scoring, the victory of the EVZ never really seems to be in danger. The Zugers are largely game-determining, Lausanne focuses primarily on the defensive. The guests can thank a strong Tobias Stephan for staying in the game at all. The urge to move forward, it does not appear with the French-speaking part of Switzerland that evening.
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The decision finally brings a double overpayment game. Only Hofmann hits, 83 seconds later Bachofner replenishes. Three goals for three points, the EVZ does the job against too harmless Lausanne in the end confidently. And as the first team to fix the playoff ticket. (CIS)
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Zug makes victory clear with two Powerplay goals—-
The best: Gregory Hofmann (train). The top scorer is the most present Zug player on the ice, wins many duels and scores the important 2: 0.
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The plum: Petteri Lindbohm (Lausanne). His penalty in the final phase ensures the two game-winning goals.