Romands are in the minority

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In Welschland, Servette – Biel is called the historic first Romand final. Since Biel-Bienne is bilingual, a lot of French is actually spoken around the final. But how many Romands are on the ice?

At Biel there are only two: captain Gaëtan Haas and the young, energetic defender Noah Delémont.

There are already more among the Genevans. But also in Jan Cadieux’s team only a minority comes from the Italian region. First of all, there is Captain Noah Rod, who joined Servette as a junior from Lausanne in 2011. There are also the two Lower Wallis Vincent Praplan and Arnaud Jacquemet, who moved to Kloten when they were 15, the rising Nati defender Simon Le Coultre, Gauthier Descloux, who was demoted to substitute goalkeeper after the first three playoff games, and the backbencher Benjamin Antonietti and Christophe Cavalleri. This means Servette has seven Romands on the team.

No team since 2006 with more than 3 French champions

Should the “Grenats” win the first Romand title since 1973 (La Chaux-de-Fonds), the “Wet Zeiter” could be thrown in the trash. The former star of Nati and ZSC (champion 2000 and 2001) claimed in 2013 that you couldn’t become champion with too many Romands in the team. A statement that the East Swiss has since been told more often than he would like, but which has not been refuted. There have never been more than three Romands in the last 15 championship teams.

The last champion with a strong French contingent was Lugano in 2006. With Sandy Jeannin, Sébastien Reuille, Valentin Wirz, Kevin Romy, Flavien Conne, Julien Vauclair and Régis Fuchs, seven Italian champions became champions.

Source : Blick