The joy of Friborg after their fourth goal.
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At the first puck release of the evening, Gottéron was the only team in the country to have a positive record against the “Z” this season, with 4 points scored out of 6 possible. Well that makes 7 and the Dragons seem to have turned into a real bête noire for the Swiss champion, who thus missed the opportunity to return to the LHC at the top of the championship. The Zurich residents and their new coach Marco Bayer are still three points behind the Vaudois, but they also have three fewer matches played…
That, in Fribourg, we don’t care, since the first match of the January marathon (12 matches in the month, after the 4 in 5 days on the way to their victory at the Spengler Cup) was already won or almost a quarter of the way of hour. He also showed that with high confidence, the Friborgs were worth much better than their current ranking. Because with Vey, Wallmark, Lilja and company at this level, there is reason to see higher.
The baraka of the Graubünden competition
Sutter converted the Dragons’ good start to the match on the scoreboard in the 8th minute. The future Servettian, author of his second goal of the year, nicely deflected a service from Vey behind Hrubec. Lars Leuenberger’s men could have railed, in the process, against their lack of realism during a series of two penalties. But Wallmark sent a puck in front of the goal when Baltisberger had barely returned to the ice and the Czech goalie managed to put it in himself.
The baraka of the Graubünden competition, won a few days earlier, had definitely not subsided. Because 84 seconds after the 2-0, Nicolet (21 years old) took advantage of a five-star service from De la Rose to score his first goal in the National League in his 24th match in the elite. It will ultimately be the decisive goal of this meeting. Since after the reductions in the gap by Grant (25th) and Kukan (29th), Gottéron gave in to the Zurich attacks, but did not break (ah this crossbar a few seconds from the end, before Sutter’s 4-2 …). Or when victory calls for victory.
Conz and Ajoie win at Davos
Davos and Ajoie had ended the year 2024 with a defeat in the championship, in Kloten for the Grisons and against Geneva for the Jurassiens, so they were keen to start 2025 in a better way. And at the end of this confrontation, the Jurassiens managed to win 3-0. They owe this victory above all to their goalkeeper Benjamin Conz. Author of 35 saves, the Jura goalkeeper disgusted the Grisons attackers and gave the necessary confidence to his teammates to score three goals. Nättinen (28th), Palve (51st) and Hazen (56th) participated in the party.
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