With Johan Lundskog, the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers find their way out of the crisis against Lundskog's former team SC Bern
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Fourth shutout this season (with 44 saves) in Davos. Charlin witches the SCL Tigers to an away win at the leaders
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Kevin Pasche of Lausanne Hockey Club, on the other hand, recorded his sixth shutout (league leader)
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Kloten trembles against Lugano after squandering a 3-0 lead, but still celebrates in the end
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With Johan Lundskog, the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers find their way out of the crisis against Lundskog's former team SC Bern
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Fourth shutout this season (with 44 saves) in Davos. Charlin witches the SCL Tigers to an away win at the leaders
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Kevin Pasche of Lausanne Hockey Club, on the other hand, recorded his sixth shutout (league leader)
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Kloten trembles against Lugano after squandering a 3-0 lead, but still celebrates in the end
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In his first game as head coach of the Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, Johan Lundskog coached his new team to a 4-2 win against his old club. These are the facts from Wednesday's four games.
18.12.2024, 22:48
19.12.2024, 06:55
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Johan Lundskog was fired in Bern in November 2022 - after he had missed the playoffs with the SCB the season before and the team continued to struggle at the time. Lundskog returned to Switzerland for this season: as an assistant with the Lakers. During the second national team break, he was promoted to head coach. Sandro Zangger and Malte Strömwall gave the Lakers a 2-0 lead in the first period. In between, Lukas Klok just hit the post for Bern. Bern's goalie Philipp Wüthrich did not look good when conceding the second goal. Inaki Baragano made it 3-0 for the Lakers at the start of the final period while shorthanded. The Lakers had already scored twice while shorthanded in their last game before the national team break. Elvis Schläpfer, who joined SCB from Biel during the national team break, made his debut as the center of the third forward line.
Langnau thanks to Charlin
Langnau's star goalie Stéphane Charlin led the SCL Tigers to another victory. Charlin saved all 44 shots (!) on his goal in Davos and did not concede a goal for the last 124 minutes on foreign ice. Harri Pesonen with the SCL Tigers' first shot and Patrick Petrini solo (after a bad pass by Calle Andersson) in the first twelve minutes and Dario Rohrbach in the final period scored the goals for the Tigers' 3-0 away win in Davos. Langnau has won four of its last six away games and three times (1-0 in Biel, 3-0 in Rapperswil and 3-0 in Davos) without conceding a goal. Charlin has already celebrated four shutouts this season, two of them (after the 7-0 win in Langnau in September) against Davos. The Tigers won in Davos for the first time since November 22, 2022.
Rochette reports back
Théo Rochette made a furious return for Lausanne Hockey Club. Rochette contributed two goals and an assist in the 5-0 home win over HC Ambri-Piotta for the league's strongest team at home. Rochette had previously had to take a month off due to injury. Nevertheless, he already has eleven goals for the season after the game against Ambri. In addition, Kevin Pasche celebrated his sixth shutout of the season with 21 saves.
Kloten still on the rise
EHC Kloten celebrated their fourth win in the last five games with a 6-3 victory over Lugano and moved up to fourth place ahead of the SCB. Lugano defenceman Santeri Alatalo caused the match-deciding scene when he was sent to the penalty box for five minutes for a board check at 2:3 from Lugano's point of view. During the overtime period, Kloten went from 3:2 to 5:2 through Deniss Smirnov and Miro Aaltonen. Kloten had already led 3:0 after 24 minutes, but squandered this advantage carelessly.
Results and ranking
Match telegrams:
Davos - SCL Tigers 0:3 (0:2, 0:0, 0:1)
4201 spectators. - SR Piechaczek/Wiegand, Meusy/Kehrli. - Goals: 1. (0:55) Pesonen (Rohrbach, Flavio Schmutz) 0:1. 13. Petrini 0:2. 46. Rohrbach (Flavio Schmutz) 0:3. - Penalties: 1 x 2 minutes against Davos, 2 x 2 minutes against SCL Tigers. - PostFinance top scorers: Tambellini; Rohrbach.
Davos: Aeschlimann; Fora, Gross; Honka, Dahlbeck; Andersson, Jung; Barandun; Stransky, Corvi, Knak; Kessler, Tambellini, Zadina; Nussbaumer, Egli, Lemieux; Wieser, Ambühl, Frehner; Parrée.
SCL Tigers: Charlin; Zanetti, Riikola; Saarijärvi, Paschoud; Baltisberger, Meier; Guggenheim; Julian Schmutz, Kristof, Saarela; Rohrbach, Flavio Schmutz, Pesonen; Fahrni, Malone, Petrini; Allenspach, Salzgeber, Lapinskis; Berger.
Remarks: Davos without Nordström and Ryfors (both injured), SCL Tigers without Erni and Mäenalanen (both injured). Davos without goalkeeper from 57:08.
Lausanne - Ambri-Piotta 5:0 (1:0, 1:0, 3:0)
9221 spectators. - SR Kaukokari/Dipietro, Gnemmi/Stalder. - Goals: 11. Bozon (Fuchs) 1:0. 26. Jäger (Rochette, Marti) 2:0. 49. Rochette (Pajuniemi, Kuokkanen) 3:0. 56. Rochette 4:0. 58. Jäger (Fuchs) 5:0. - Penalties: 2 times 2 minutes each. - PostFinance top scorers: Suomela; Kubalik.
Lausanne: Pasche; Sklenicka, Bayreuther; Heldner, Frick; Vouardoux, Marti; Fiedler, Genazzi; Riat, Suomela, Oksanen; Bozon, Jäger, Fuchs; Pajuniemi, Kuokkanen, Rochette; Hügli, Benjamin Bougro, Holdener.
Ambri-Piotta: Senn; Heed, Pezzullo; Virtanen, Zgraggen; Wüthrich, Isacco Dotti; Zaccheo Dotti; Zwerger, DiDomenico, Kubalik; De Luca, Maillet, Landry; Bürgler, Kostner, Pestoni; Douay, Heim, Müller; Hedlund.
Remarks: Lausanne without Glauser, Pilut, Prassl and Raffl (all injured), Ambri-Piotta without Curran and Grassi (both sick).
Rapperswil-Jona Lakers - Bern 4:2 (2:0, 0:0, 2:2)
4424 spectators. - SR Tscherrig/Ruprecht, Obwegeser/Gurtner. - Goals: 4th Zangger (Wetter) 1:0. 20th (19:33) Strömwall (Holm, Dünner/powerplay goal) 2:0. 42nd Baragano (Lammer, Zangger/underpaid goal!) 3:0. 46th Scherwey (Loeffel, Nemeth/powerplay goal) 3:1. 53. Zangger (Wetter, Jelovac) 4:1. 60. (59:35) Marchon (Baumgartner, Loeffel/powerplay goal) 4:2. - Penalties: 7 times 2 minutes against Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, 4 times 2 minutes against Bern. - PostFinance top scorers: Strömwall; Czarnik.
Rapperswil-Jona Lakers: Nyffeler; Baragano, Nardella; Maier, Holm; Jelovac, Capaul; Gerber; Aberg, Rask, Jensen; Moy, Dünner, Strömwall; Hofer, Taibel, Alge; Wick, Wetter, Zangger; Lammer.
Bern: Wüthrich; Untersander, Nemeth; Loeffel, Klok; Füllemann, Kindschi; Ejdsell, Baumgartner, Scherwey; Merelä, Czarnik, Kahun; Bader, Schläpfer, Marchon; Ryser, Ritzmann, Simon Moser.
Remarks: Rapperswil-Jona Lakers without Albrecht, Djuse, Larsson and Quinn (all injured), Bern without Vermin (sick), Kreis, Lehmann, Lindholm (all injured), Schild (suspended) and Reideborn (supernumerary foreigner).
Kloten - Lugano 6:3 (2:0, 1:2, 3:1)
5014 spectators. - SR Stolc/Mollard, Urfer/Duc. - Goals: 10. Morley (Ramel, Meyer) 1:0. 20. (19:30) Wolf (Smirnovs) 2:0. 24. Audette (Aaltonen, Ojamäki) 3:0. 30. Pulli (Carr, Jesper Peltonen) 3:1. 38. Verboon (power play goal) 3:2. 54th (53:48) Smirnovs (powerplay goal) 4:2. 55th (54:52) Aaltonen (Niku/at 5-on-3) 5:2. 56th (55:38) Joly (Thürkauf) 5:3. 58th Smirnovs (Ramel, Morley) 6:3 (into the empty net). - Penalties: 4 times 2 minutes against Kloten, 5 times 2 plus 5 minutes (Alatalo) plus playing time (Alatalo) against Lugano. - PostFinance top scorers: Aaltonen; Joly.
Kloten: Waeber; Niku, Profico; Grégoire, Wolf; Sidler, Steve Kellenberger; Sataric; Ojamäki, Aaltonen, Audette; Meyer, Morley, Ramel; Derungs, Schäppi, Schreiber; Weibel, Diem, Smirnovs; Marchon.
Lugano: Schlegel; Aebischer, Dahlström; Jesper Peltonen, Pulli; Hausheer, Alatalo; Guerra; Joly, Thürkauf, Sekac; Cormier, Canonica, Marco Müller; Fazzini, Arcobello, Carr; Zanetti, Verboon, Patry; Aleksi Peltonen.
Remarks: Kloten without Aebi, Simic and Steiner (all injured), Lugano without Morini, Mirco Müller, Zohorna, van Pottelberghe (all injured) and Huska (supernumerary foreigner). Lugano without a goalkeeper from 57:08 to 57:32.
