HC La Chaux-de-Fonds offered a sad spectacle to the 3,108 spectators at Les Mélèzes. On Tuesday night, he was swept by Olten 6-4 in the Swiss Ice Hockey League. An embarrassing result for the Bees who still led 4-0 at the start of the second third.
An HCC touched by grace…
This meeting started magnificently for Louis Matte’s troops who took the lead in the second minute thanks to Marc Aeschlimann. Taking advantage of the apathy of Solothurn, Chaux-de-Fonniers then scored a series of goals to increase the score to 4-0 just before the 25th minute. Concentrated and diligent, the HCC seemed to have its benchmark match in 2025 and was heading straight for a card as Olten was so painful to see. “We did everything right in the first third. We had everything in our hands to get these three points, but we received a very good lesson…”, analyzed the striker and author of the 4-0 Julien Privet.
Then completely on the street
A single small grain of sand, two consecutive penalties (26th and 27th), was enough to disrupt the chaux-de-fondnière machine. In just over five minutes, the sky fell on the Abeilles’ heads: Olten was back to 4-4. Far from being the thunderbolts of war, the Mice took advantage of the gross defensive errors of the HCC and its goalkeeper Viktor Östlund. Stunned, Toms Andersons and his teammates were then unable to carry the danger and were punished less than two minutes from the final siren by a shot from Victor Oejdemark. “In good French, we went into a tailspin. At 4-0, we left the match because we thought it was going to be easy,” complained coach Louis Matte coldly.
Note that Timur Shiyanov, the new goalkeeper, played 16 seconds in this meeting, his first with the HCC. Enough to allow Louis Matte, who had already used his time-out, to gain time to brief his players… without success! In the ranking, La Chaux-de-Fonds remains second, two points behind Basel. From the Rhineland that the Abeilles will face on Thursday in the semi-finals of the Swiss Cup. /dpi
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