Forced to play its matches away while waiting to soon be able to find the Vernets, Geneva is doing better. And in a competitive National League, the 3 points taken in Friborg are vital.
“It’s a big team victory,” said Geneva coach Jan Cadieux after the match. Everyone makes points and these three points are logically very important.’
Geneva hit the uprights three times, once in each third, and saw Friborg save a puck on the line just after Granlund’s 3-2. It is for this reason that we can speak of a deserved success for the Eagles. Naturally, Jan Cadieux is more critical.
‘During the first thirty minutes, it was good,’ he analyzes. On the other hand, we made life complicated during the next fifteen. The third third we mastered. We are showing defensive rigor and discipline compared to last season. Afterwards, we have difficulty scoring goals, but we concede few.’
There is no question for the champion coach in 2023 to see too far ahead: ‘The mentality is to win the next match. We have a complicated weekend in Ambri and Kloten. So it’s a matter of analyzing it carefully and seeing what we need to clean.’
Asked about the excellent start to the season of his goalkeeper Robert Mayer and despite the recent signing of the Finn Antti Raanta, Jan Cadieux is obviously happy to see his goalkeeper regain his ‘mojo’. ‘Robert has raised the level of his game, but we play more responsibly in front of him, explains Cadieux. That said, he showed great strength of character.’
As for facing Pat Emond, the one he succeeded on the Eagles bench in 2021, the son of the late Paul-ANDré Cadieux did not wish to dwell too much on this subject. ‘No matter who is opposite, I won’t stop there,’ he concludes. Everything has already been said. I know what happened three years ago, I can look in the mirror and concentrate on the match.’
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