Power-play scorer in the 12th minute, Jerry Turkulainen turned into a passer on Philip-Michaël Devos’ success, 4 minutes later. During the intermediate period, Julius Nättinen also holed the opposing net on a numerical advantage. Finally, Devos signed a double, in the empty cage (59th).
Fribourg-Gottéron achieved a small feat by winning 35” from the end of the game in Davos, via a decisive success from Jacob de la Rose (3-2) in numerical superiority. Faced with Graubünden, who have been very prolific since the start of the season and full of confidence in recent weeks (7 consecutive successes), the Friborgs have never given up.
Dominated, Patrick Emond’s men were able to erase a gap twice. Already a scorer on Friday evening, the Swede Jakob Lilja also hit the mark in Davos (26th). Sandro Schmid allowed Gottéron to return to 2-2 (48th).
Fatal extension at Genève-Servette
Less success for Genève-Servette. The Vernets team failed to celebrate their third success at home this season, losing 5-4 after extra time by Kloten. Jan Cadieux’s protégés quickly led 2-0, via successes from Markus Granlund (5th) and Sami Vatanen (6th) made 5 against 3. Passing the 2-0, the Swede added another goal to his collection, once again taking advantage of the indiscipline of Zurich (3-1 in the 17th, 5 against 4).
In the 2nd period, Lauri Marjamäki took the option of changing goalkeeper, choosing to introduce Sandro Zurchirchen. His performance and the goals from Keanu Derungs (26th), Sami Niku (33rd) and Thomas Grégoire (39th) completely turned the game around. Arnaud Jacquemet’s equalizer (42nd) allowed GSHC to obtain the right to play an extension. An additional period which, however, only lasted 23 seconds, time for Miro Aaltonen to score the decisive goal.
Biel: running out of fuel
In other matches, Langnau ended a series of four defeats by winning in Bienne (1-0). The success of Latvian with Swiss license Oskars Lapinskis (19th) will have faithfully transcribed the domination of the visitors, during the initial third. The Emmentalois were then able to maintain this small lead against the Zealanders who were not very convincing offensively. Stéphane Charlin took the opportunity to be cleared for the second time this season. Finally, in the last match of the evening, Berne beat Zug (3-2 after).