Thursday in Helsinki (5:30 p.m.) against Finland, the Swiss ice hockey team will play its first match since its defeat in the 2024 World Cup final in Prague. As always, the meeting will be broadcast on RTS. Viewers will, however, have to get used to new voices.
Indeed, the Steve Roth/Félicien Du Bois duo will be replaced for the 2025 World Championship which will be held in Stockholm and Herning (May 9 to 25). Their successors have not yet been appointed. Internal applications have led to the selection of a trio of finalists who will all get their chance to show what they can do during the season’s three international breaks.
For the Karjala Cup in Finland, Christophe Cerf will be the main commentator. He will be supported, according to “Blick”, by Tristan Vauclair, the former Lugano and Fribourg-Gottéron striker. The Jurassien has 4 selections for the Swiss team between 2009 and 2011. The media announces that Alain Thévoz and Brian Wakker are the two other candidate commentators, which we are able to confirm.
The first will be on the microphone for the Swiss Ice Hockey Games in Friborg from December 12 to 15. According to our information, his consultant will be Philippe Bozon. The Frenchman knows Swiss hockey very well having played there for 9 seasons (La Chaux-de-Fonds, Lausanne, Lugano and Genève-Servette). He was the coach of the France team until the last World Cup.
Finally, Brian Wakker will have the opportunity to test himself at the Beijer Games in Sweden in February 2025. The name of his consultant has not been filtered.
