Nationalliga: Bern wins for the first time in eight games
Bern – Geneva-Servette 3: 1
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These are pictures like you haven’t seen in a long time. The SCB players let themselves be celebrated by the late fans. 3:1 against Servette. It is the first victory after eight bankruptcies in a row. And the first threesome after two (!) months. The party offers one-way hockey. Geneva makes the game, dominates with 48:18 shots. But again and again the shiny Philip Wüthrich defused the SCB goal. The Geneva team also fail three times at the goal border.
The SCB is completely different: Bern is ice cold in the end. When Bern’s Jan Neuenschwander catches the first penalty of the game, it takes ten seconds. And the gate falls. But not for Geneva. Roger Karrer misses a back pass from Joël Vermin. Thierry Bader goes. And shoots the SCB in the lead. It’s the first shorthander in the 40th game for the Mutzen!
The SCB can extend the lead in the second third. First Praplan increased on the power play. Then Bader strikes again five minutes before the second break. But: Servette trainer Jan Cadieux accepts the Coaches Challenge. And request: offside! No goal!
Now the Bernese threaten to slip away from the game. For 78 seconds they have to make do with two men less. But even with a double majority, the Geneva team cannot succeed. When in the last third top scorer Daniel Winnik had to leave because of a cross corner, Untersander decided the game. Winnik looks annoyed, ends up in the shower after another crosscheck to Wüthrich. The Bern goalkeeper also keeps track of things in the final phase and leaves the ice with a massive catch rate of 97.92 percent.
Coach Johan Lundskog sends a strong signal. Santiago Näf (19), Ronny Dähler and Noah Fuss (both 20), who jumped into the breach at the weekend when SCB were missing ten regular players, come back to the train. Fuss is used in the parade block next to Kahun. Näf leads the third line as center. And Dähler still makes it as the 13th striker on the sheet. Great! (AR)
The goals: 6. Bader (SH) 1:0, 26. Praplan (Kast, Andersson/PP) 2:0, 50. Untersander (Kahun, Conacher/PP) 3:0, 54. Vermin (Vatanen, Filppula) 3:1.
Philipp Wüthrich (SC Bern) ***
Thierry Bader (SC Berne) **
Ramon Untersander (SC Berne) *
ZSC Lions – Ambri 5:2
Suffer. That’s what Ambri needs to start with. The Ticino have to put up with the superiority of the Zurich team. Especially when the line is on the ice with Olympians Malgin and Andrighetto. But Conz can only be defeated once (by Roe) during the ZSC superiority phase. When Zurich’s storm warned, Ambri got into a good final position for the first time after 25 minutes through Heim, got into the game better and equalized through Grassi.
In the final third a shot from Andrighetto, who had previously suffered two shots from metal, lands in the goal: Via Schienbein by Chris Baltisberger. Then it gets hectic: Ambri continues to play under protest after the referees annul the equalization because Grassi rattled head first into goalie Kovar. The reason given by the Ticino: the Zurich team took too long for the Coaches Challenge (according to the rules, 45 seconds).
The compensation then falls when Quenneville deflects the punk into his own goal. But shortly thereafter, the outstanding Malgin dashes off and defeats Conz to 3:2. The decision. (sr)
The goals: 14. Roe (Bodenmann, Hollenstein) 1: 0, 30. Grassi (Pestoni, Zwerger) 1: 1, 43. C. Baltisberger (Andrighetto, Noreau/PP) 2: 1, 51. McMillan 2: 2, 52. Malgin 3: 2, 55 Pedretti (Hollenstein) 4: 2, 60 Malgin (Pedretti/EN) 5: 2.
Denis Malgin (ZSC Lions) ***
Denis Hollenstein (ZSC Lions) **
Reto Schäppi (ZSC Löwen) *
Zug – Lugano 5: 4 aet
EV Zug remains undefeated this year. With a 5:4 after extra time against Lugano, the Central Swiss celebrate their seventh win in a row. After just 14 seconds of overtime, Swede Niklas Hansson scored his second goal of the evening.
After a lightning start with a 3-0 lead after twelve minutes, the champions give up a point in a rather annoying way. Calvin Thürkauf brings hope back to the ranks of the Ticino shortly before the end of the third period. Daniel Carr, buoyed by an Olympic squad from Canada, shortened two minutes before the second break. The Canadian later scored to make it 3:4.
Zug leads again in the last third 4:2, but Carr and Romain Loeffel 2:12 minutes save Lugano another point. The game has already started badly for the Bianconeri. Goalkeeper Niklas Schlegel was forced to make way for Thibault Fatton after just three minutes due to an injury. (SDA)
The goals: 10 Suri (Kovar, Leuenberger) 1: 0, 11 Senteler 2: 0, 12 Hansson (Suri) 3: 0, 20 Thürkauf (Guerra, Fazzini) 3: 1, 39 Carr (Josephs) 3: 2 , 51 Klingberg 4-2, 53 Carr 4-3, 58 Spoon 4-4, 61 Hansson (Kovar) 5-4.
Ajoie – Lakers 3:7
After a 3:7 home defeat against the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, HC Ajoie holds the record that nobody wants. For the 16th time in a row, the climber from the furthest corner of the Jura has not scored a point. This has never happened since the playoffs were introduced in the top Swiss ice hockey league.
For a third, Ajoie can hope to avoid the inevitable, but in the middle third the 2-0 lead melts away like ice in the spring sun. After only 15 seconds, Zack Mitchell shortened the gap, with a shorthander – the eighth of the season against Ajoie – the Canadian equalized and in the 34th minute it was already 2:4.
Then birthday boy Tim Wolf (29) comes into play in the Ajoie goal – and is also forced for the first time after two minutes. Rapperswil-Jona, the surprise team of the season, scored for the fifth game in a row. (SDA)
The goals: 15 Dirt (owner) 1-0 17 Bogdanoff (owner, Gauthier-Leduc) 2-0 21 Mitchell (Djuse, Wetter) 2-1 27 Mitchell (Rowe/SH) 2-2 29 Djuse (Forrer) 2: 3, 34 Cervenka (Djuse, Lammer) 2: 4, 36 Aebischer 2: 5, 41 Frossard (Asselin / PP) 3: 5, 41 Cervenka (Mitchell, Zgraggen) 3: 6 , 54. Forrer (wick) 3:7
SCL Tigers – Lausanne cancelled!
The 39th round game had to be canceled due to several positive corona tests and injured players in the Tigers camp. The Langnauer no longer fulfilled the minimum quota of 15 players and a goalie.
Swiss League, results of the 43rd round
Olten – Kloten 3:6
EVZ Academy – GCK Lions 1:2
La Chaux-de-Fonds – Visp 2-0
Langenthal – Winterthur 4: 3 nP
Sierre – Ticino Rockets 3: 4 aet
Olten – Kloten 3:6
EVZ Academy – GCK Lions 1:2
La Chaux-de-Fonds – Visp 2-0
Langenthal – Winterthur 4: 3 nP
Sierre – Ticino Rockets 3: 4 aet
