Friborg recorded its third success of the National League season on Saturday after an electric match against Ambri. Lausanne also won, while Geneva and Ajoie bowed down.
The loss of one evening can sometimes trigger a trigger. The day after their slap at the hands of Lausanne (6-0), the Dragons raised their heads to beat Ambri-Piotta 4-3.
While they had been transparent the day before, the Friborgs showed that they were also capable of setting fire to the ice. With their feet on the floor, they asphyxiated the Ticino residents, second before this duel, throughout the first third.
Dorthe opens her counter
The opening score fell on a power-play shot from Wallmark (9th). Dorthe was then able to double the lead with his first goal in the National League, on a bright serve from Rathgeb (16th). Just before the break, Marchon escaped outnumbered to score 3-0 (20th).
But nothing is ever easy for the Dragons at the start of the year. The Leventins, with double numerical superiority, in fact responded as soon as they returned from the locker room through Bürgler (22nd). The latter even brought his team back to within a length with one more man on the ice (35th), before Heim equalized in stride (37th).
It took all the self-sacrifice of Julien Sprunger to allow Friborg to escape. The captain with more than a thousand matches for his team appeared at the right time to change the game (49th).
The GSHC in difficulty
Traveling to the capital, Genève-Servette was beaten 5-2. The Eagles had a start that was the opposite of that of Fribourg. Much sharper, CP Berne also shook the net three times during the first period thanks to Czarnik (12th), Ritzmann (14th) and Baumgartner (16th).
Geneva’s response came from Manninen’s stick during a well-executed power play at the restart (21st). But the hope of the European champions did not last, since Lehmann then scored 4-1 (27th), before Sablatnig added salt to the score (34th).
The reduction in the score signed by Hartikainen (39th), still at 5 against 4, brought little comfort to Jan Cadieux’s men.
Lausanne late
In Langnau, where Lausanne expected to win to stay in the top three, they had to wait a long time for a goal. After two thirds with a goalless score, it was Jäger who finally found the fault (52nd).
This single success was enough to allow the LHC to win and temporarily slip into second place in the ranking.
As for HC Ajoie, it suffered its 8th setback in regulation time of the season. The Jura team was dominated 3-0 by Davos, who took advantage of a success from Zadina (7th) and two from Fora (24th, 30th) to climb back to the gates of the top 6. The red lantern remains stuck at 4 points.
Resting on Saturday, HC Bienne will face Kloten on Sunday at 3:45 p.m. in front of its home crowd.
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