A match that goes in all directions, which responds to no logic. And in the end, it’s HC Ajoie who wins! The Jura public went through all the emotions this Saturday evening in a derby against Lausanne which kept all its promises. The deliverance fell into added time. Four against three, Anttoni Honka found the Vaudois net on a big throw. The “yellow and black” came from behind, still two goals behind with less than four minutes remaining in regulation time.
Once again, we would be tempted to write. Because like eight days ago against Lugano, the HCA achieved the incredible feat of coming back to the score in a “phew” end to the match. Philip-Michael scored his double following a first shot from Jonathan Hazen to find the equalizer, 3-3, just 34 seconds from the end of the match while Damiano Ciaccio had left the cage.
In overtime, Greg Ireland even took out his goalkeeper to make his team play five against three. A few moments earlier, the Vaudois thought they had scored the winning goal but the referees canceled the success to whistle a penalty.
There was electricity in the air this Saturday evening in a tense French-speaking derby from the first to the last minute of play.
A high-tension match? And how. The match even entered another dimension when, in the 14th minute of play, a scene of boxing enlivened the proceedings. Valentin Pilet, the defender of HC Ajoie, after Damiano Ciaccio captured the puck, defended his territory. In a fight worthy of a boxing match, he literally knocked out Antti Suomela, the top scorer from Vaud, with five punches to the head. The Finn from the opposing camp was knocked out and Pilet was back in trouble, then being attacked by the American Gavin Bayreuther. Both men had taken off their gloves.
It took many minutes for the refereeing body to sort out “who had done what”. The game directors then distributed a total of 60 minutes of penalties, including 29 for Pilet alone.
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