The greatest warhorses in playoff history

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The Italo-Canadian still faces the absolute playoff hardness: plug in and shut up. The alternative to Chris DiDomenico. Orlando let himself be beaten black and blue in front of the opponent’s goals without batting an eyelid. With no ice trays available at the time, “Gates” had to be packed in several ice packs after the games to allow his bones to recover. Enjoy hero status.

You have to look closely: is that the one without a helmet that passes for the sunny boy from the beach? Helbling on the Ice – aggressive as a cage fighter. In the spring of 2016, while working for the SCB, Helbling hit and beat HCD Canadian Picard with wild determination simply because he crossed the red line (literally) during the warmup. By the way, you can see it on Youtube.

Coined the term “gang plane” like no other. “You can’t control it,” Arno Del Curto once said. With a proud smile on his face because: of course he could. Took the league by storm in 2007 when, with his brother Marc as a winger, he went straight from the academy to the play-offs, scoring a point against Zürich and clinching the title. Raised the gangs exclusively for Davos until his retirement.

“I’ve played over 700 games in the NHL with this style,” Maxim Lapierre said in a September 2017 Blick interview. The style? Get under the opponent’s skin, no matter what. The arsonist got so far in the spring of 2016 that even Servette’s hard-boiled zampano Chris McSorley turned to the umpires for help: “There are rules!?” Legendary: Lapierre’s duel with the then SCB agitator Thomas Rüfenacht.

In 2009 he caused a brawl against Biel’s top scorer Thomas Nüssli in the service of Lausanne – actually unable to play due to injury. For the first puck throw. The volts pull. Nüssli is caught by Rüfenacht and grabbed off the ice. He has acquired cult status as the man who gets on Lugano’s spark plug Max Lapierre: he simply laughs at him instead of fighting. direct hit.

“Out of control” was written on a poster that the SCB fans held up in his honor. Steinegger. The name was program. When it came to the sausage, “Stoney” switched to Morgenstern mode, even the toughest kibbles had to question the meaning in his rustic interpretation of stick work and use of the elbows: Am I risking that? Different times, different customs.

A happy character from Thurgau, who won championship honors in Bern and Zurich. Appreciated as a witty interview partner, Schrepfer brought the usual playoff trappings to the man on the ice under the stage name “Schrumm” for free. The Schrepfer special as a supplement: dialect-heavy insults à discretion.

The Frenchman, always appreciated and honored by his fellow players as “Mon Capitaine”, brought what is known in North America as the “mean streak” (loosely translated: a bad streak) in addition to his excellent style of play. A lover of heavy checks and free-flowing passion, but also a tightrope walker. About what you like to have in your own team, but ardently abhor as an opponent.

Someone who actually spread fear and terror. His controls were a new dimension in Switzerland due to their intensity, so the referees had to get smart first. Opponents sometimes turned away (see: question of meaning), and at the slightest resistance, Sarault immediately let his fists speak. Made the playoffs at HCD (2007) with a dislocated shoulder. That too is Sarault.

Feared for: slap shots, canes, free-flying elbows, brawls and – occasionally – fouls. A man for the big headlines and the hearts of his (own) fans, who never left an eye dry with his powerful and passionate performances. One of the heroes of EV Zug’s first title (1998).

Source : Blick