“Bern kicked us on the ass”

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Before the first game of the pre-playoff series against SCB, the Kloteners were still in a good mood. “We tasted blood,” defender Nicholas Steiner said on Saturday after the victory in Davos. After the bankruptcy of 1: 5 in Bern, the lowlands of Zurich licked their wounds.

“We weren’t good enough. Bern played very aggressively. They played physically and we let Bern intimidate us,” says coach Jeff Tomlinson.

Already during the first missions, his team had trouble with the tough pre-check of the SCB. “We didn’t support the disc leader. We weren’t a unit on the ice. And we were harmless,” he says flatly.

Tomlinson wrote an emotional story two years ago as he led the SCRJ Lakers to the semifinals through pre-playoffs in his final games. Now he wants to instill the pride of his players. “They kicked us on the ass. On Thursday we have to show ourselves from a different side. We were a few steps behind practically all evening. That shouldn’t happen at home.”

“Yes, at some point it will be my last game”

The 52-year-old believes that the Kloten fans will move the team forward. “At home we were one of the best teams in the league,” he says. The people of the airport city would have qualified directly for the playoffs if they had only counted the points on their own ice.

“I don’t think the boys want it all to be over on Thursday. We will fight for it,” says Tomlinson. While another defeat would only mean the end of the season for EHC Kloten, it would be the end of the career of the coach.”Yes, at some point it will be my last game,” he says calmly. “I don’t want it to end on Thursday, because I want to keep working.”

He enjoys his job. “But I have to get other people involved,” says the trainer, who is no longer with the gang for health reasons and will help Kloten when the new coach takes office in an advisory role that has yet to be worked out. Tomlinson cares a lot about Kloten. He didn’t want to leave a house of cards behind, but wanted to continue to help build something.

The Kloten players will certainly want to work for a few more days, if not weeks, with the promotion coach, who has become very dear to them. If only it weren’t for the suddenly extremely feisty and intimidating SCB.

Source : Blick