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Elbow to head – or head to elbow?
The league is having a bit of a tough time right now when it comes to “elbow check” (rule 45) penalties. Even the referees may wonder what is being recognized at the Player Safety Officer (PSO) level and individual judges that they are not seeing. SC Bern’s Tristan Scherwey was suspended for one match after being checked by Tino Kessler in Biel on Friday, but returned the check and hit Kessler in the elbow. “If someone drives his car into a bridge pillar, he probably won’t punish the bridge pillar,” writes an angry user by email. Good. Scherwey received a five-minute penalty on the ice (excluding playing time), but was ultimately eliminated for one game by the individual jury. “You don’t want to see these kinds of things on the ice,” the verdict reads.
A week ago, the PSO and the individual judges had interpreted rule 45 differently: in the Kloten vs. Ajoie match, the Jurassician Frossard clearly aims at the head of the Kloten defender Leandro Profico and gets a direct hit with his elbow; there is a ban on this clear action, but then no. Is anyone else coming with me?
Water storm instead of storm in a teacup
In Biel you are slowly seeing the light at the end of the tunnel: With successes in detention (against Bern and in Freiburg), Petri Matikainen’s team is gradually approaching the places that have something to do with the play-offs after 52 rounds. After the anger surrounding the interview with Antti Törmänen, the smoke is slowly clearing. In addition, the long-awaited return of Austrian Fabio Hofer allows the reintroduction of the “H20” attack with Haas and Olofsson.
And the return of the water storm puts out a few fires: the attractive playing style finally reveals something measurable. By the way, the match in Freiburg (Saturday) was a spectacle of the highest entertainment value and not much time was wasted in the neutral zone. A strain on the nerves of the trainers? Certainly. But also ice hockey that gets the spectators out of their seats.
Team of the week
The ZSC lions. Just like last week, the residents of Zurich are clearing away everything that stands in their way. After the 3-1 win in Lugano, the Zurich team must be patient against Ajoie, but they will not let the Jura team, who can still be outsiders in every match, steal points. Frödén’s goal to make it 2-1 came twelve seconds before the siren.
HCD is recovering at home for the performance in Kloten
What was that? On Saturday the record champions appeared in Kloten (1:4), which raised fundamental questions. There is not only a lack of tactical discipline, but also the willingness to make sacrifices and courage. Things that actually belong to the standard repertoire of professionals.
In any case, a correction followed the next day; against the SCL Tigers, the team from Graubünden only had trouble scoring. A defeat would probably have led to atmospheric disturbances in the Landwassertal during the Nati break.
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team
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SP
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T.D
|
PT
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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1
|
 ZSC Lions
|
29
|
37
|
64
|
|
|
2
|
 EV train
|
29
|
40
|
59
|
|
|
3
|
 HC Fribourg-Gotteron
|
30
|
20
|
57
|
|
|
4
|
 Lausanne HC
|
31
|
17
|
54
|
|
|
5
|
 SC Bern
|
30
|
-4
|
50
|
|
|
6
|
 HC Lugano
|
30
|
11
|
47
|
|
|
7
|
 Geneva-Servette HC
|
29
|
-4
|
43
|
|
|
8th
|
 HC Ambri-Piotta
|
29
|
-1
|
42
|
|
|
9
|
 HC Davos
|
30
|
7
|
42
|
|
|
10
|
 SCL Tigers
|
30
|
-26
|
41
|
|
|
11
|
 EHC Biel
|
29
|
-10
|
35
|
|
|
12
|
 EHC Kloten
|
30
|
-24
|
34
|
|
|
13
|
 SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers
|
29
|
-25
|
30
|
|
|
14
|
 HC Ajoie
|
27
|
-38
|
20
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Source : Blick
I’m Emma Jack, a news website author at 24 News Reporters. I have been in the industry for over five years and it has been an incredible journey so far. I specialize in sports reporting and am highly knowledgeable about the latest trends and developments in this field.
