The day after its short setback conceded to Ambri (5-4 ap), Genève-Servette took off again Saturday evening on the Kloten ice. The team coached by Jan Cadieux beat the Aviateurs (2-5), to sign its third success during its last four outings in the league.
Twelve days after his arrival at the reigning European champion, Antti Raanta celebrated his big debut in the garnet jersey. But the Finnish goalkeeper, 301 NHL matches under his belt, was forced to leave his partners after just twenty minutes, due to an injury. It was the young Nassim Jaafri-Hayani (18 years old) who had to take over. Before that, the visitors were already leading 1-3.
The Eagles now have a few days ahead of them to best prepare for the Champions League reception of the Germans from Klagenfurt, Wednesday evening, at the Littoral ice rink in Neuchâtel.
Saturday, Fribourg-Gottéron ended its catastrophic week in accounting terms with a defeat against Davos (1-4). The evil seems deep at the BCF Arena.
Zero points. After losing against Genève-Servette and Berne, the Friborg team lost at home against the Davos team. This is already the Dragons’ seventh defeat, in just nine outings, since the resumption of the National League. They once again delivered a disappointing performance against a team deprived of several leaders.
Gottéron is in crisis. He will host Eisbären Berlin on Tuesday (7:45 p.m.) in the Champions Hockey League before traveling to Lausanne on Friday (7:45 p.m.).
Beaten in Langnau with a score of 4-1 on Saturday evening, the Biel residents also saw their captain leave them mid-match. He suffered an elbow to the head from Dario Allenspach, who was sent off.
HC Bienne took on water near the Emmental Versicherung Arena. He never managed to get into his match against Langnau. Asphyxiated in their restarts, too often skating behind the puck, the Biennois were non-existent in front of Stéphane Charlin’s goals. In the first 30 minutes, they only managed six shots on target. A misery.
And the second part of the meeting was no better. An evening to forget for the people of Bienne who were mishandled by the second Emmental triplet composed of Julian Schmutz, Fabio Schmutz and Aleksi Saarela. All three men contributed to all four goals.
