Wild West in western Switzerland: “Attempt on Eric Landry!”

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Has the world gone crazy or was it like this before? At least in the microcosm of hockey, the world used to be a lot crazier. Today, when people talk about the mental processing of competitions, in the past you would just smoke a cigarette and everything would be fine.

Today, if a professional is caught with a cigarette, the angry bourgeoisie What actually was better before? Courage.

Boxer at a garden party beaten by world champion

Let’s take the example of Eric Landry, who became something of a style icon in the 2005 playoff final between Lausanne and Friborg because his team (Lausanne) already had a bad photograph due to a lack of image editing (at that time still at the peak of its popularity). elementary level) to get an even worse picture. Landry, who suffered a broken cheekbone and nose and several cuts from Friborg forward Jeff Schantz, looked in the edited image like a boxer from a Hollywood garden party being beaten in the ring by the world champion for 10 rounds.

Then-Lausanne HC President Robert Ley-Ravello then spoke of an “attack” on Landry because then-rival coach Mike McParland had said in the harshest terms before the game that Landry would be given special treatment. will allow. Wild West in western Switzerland, entertainment factor 10 out of 10, in Bern Mark Lüthi looked at Friborg with envy for the first time. But not for long.

Karma: descent

The edited photo of Landry was deliberately circulated by Lausanne to put pressure on the judge, but in the end it only turned fate against itself: it’s called karma. Lausanne was transferred to the NLB.

If you want to know what Eric Landry looks like today, just look at Ambris’ bench. He’s there as an assistant coach.

Source: Blick