Basel meets Yverdon – the game in the live ticker

Live ticker

The Swiss national team starts the new season today at the Karjala Cup in Helsinki. Before leaving on Monday, head coach Patrick Fischer took time for an interview with the Keystone-SDA news agency in which he looked back on the World Cup, talked about developments in Swiss ice hockey and the current squad.

Patrick Fischer, a year ago you had to explain another disappointment. Then you showed it to the critics with the World Cup silver medal. How great is the satisfaction?
I’m just really happy that it came out this way. We’ve recently struggled to deliver our performance when it counts. We addressed this problem. That’s why we brought in performance coach Stefan Schwitter, who helped us always stay in the moment. This topic was on our minds the entire season. We put pressure on the players, which then increased further due to the series of defeats. I am all the more grateful that we proved in the quarter-final against Germany that we can do it. We also demonstrated our potential in the semi-finals and finals. That felt good.