However, everything got off to a flying start. For their entry into the Continental Cup, the Brûleurs de loups made the perfect start against Aalborg. On the ice of the Danes, host of this semi-final of European competition, the Grenoblois opened the scoring after less than a minute of play through Christophe Boivin.
A goal to start the match and another to end the third period by Alexandre Mallet and everything seemed perfect for the Grenoblois against the Danes who were sanctioned on several occasions.
A catastrophic second third
But when we returned from the locker room, everything had changed. Perhaps taken by the stakes of this first meeting, the Aalborg players returned with better intentions. And by scoring two goals in 16 seconds, the locals brought the two teams level. Authors of 18 shots during this period, compared to 6 for the Grenoblois, they even took the lead on the scoreboard by scoring a third goal just before the end of the second act.
The Grenoblois returned to the locker room with a blow to the helmet. And unlike the Danes in the second third, the revolt was not immediate. It was necessary to wait for a new goal from the Danes for the Brûleurs de loups to try everything for everything. Nicolas Deschamps kept the hopes alive by scoring 10 seconds after the fourth goal conceded.
But once Matija Pintaric came out to try to snatch the extension, Jonas Jakobsen did not know how to pray to come and extinguish Grenoble’s last hopes.
This defeat, combined with Katowice’s large victory against Brasov (9-2), makes victory almost obligatory this Saturday (2 p.m.) against the Polish winners. Far from being a gift.
Katowice humiliates Brasov
In the other meeting of this Continental Cup group, the Poles from Katowice made short work of the Romanians from Brasov.
If the first third was tight with a slight advantage for Katowice (2-1), the next two were outrageously dominated by the Poles who ended up winning 9-2. The Wolf Burners will have a lot to do this Saturday (2 p.m.) against the hockey players from the tenth largest city in Poland.
The other meeting this Saturday will pit Aalborg against Brasov (7 p.m.).
Les buts pour Katowice: 1’10 Mroczkowski (Dupuy), 17’41 Dupuy (Mroczkowski), 21’49 Koponen (Salituro, Sokay), 29’23 [sup.] Pasiut (Runesson, Fraszko), 37’43 [sup.] Fraszko (Wronka), 42’01 Dupuy (Anderson), 52’41 Verveda (Macias), 56’17 Wronka (Fraszko), 58’37 [sup.] Anderson
Goals for Brasov: 8’04 B. Gajdo (T. Gajdo, Piche), 32’31 [sup.] VanWormer (Skachkov).
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