At least one Swiss team will also reach the finals of this season's Champions Hockey League. The ZSC Lions and defending champion Genève-Servette will meet in the semifinals in January.
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Both ZSC Lions and Servette enter the second round in excellent positions. Despite this, the people of Zurich still have to be frightened. Like the first round in Berlin, they lost 0-3 to Eisbarren in the second round, but successfully reversed the situation in the second and third rounds.
The semi-finals on the 14th/15th. and 21/22. Geneva will initially have home field advantage in January. The other semi-final will be between the Swedish team Fajestad and Sparta Prague.
ZSC fights again to catch up with the premiere
The ZSC Lions have reached the semi-finals for the first time in their eighth attempt at the Championship Hockey League.
However, things struggled against Eisbalen Berlin, largely due to a sometimes barren defensive work and a chronic under-assessment of chances.
Regardless, the small cushion of a 4-3 first-leg victory quickly disappeared. What's more: just like two weeks ago in Berlin, Zurich trailed 3-0. This time it's 20 minutes later, not “just” 24 minutes later.
Derek Grant (ZSC) celebrates with his teammates after scoring to make the score 4:4.Image: trapezoid
ZSC can't count on head coach Mark Crawford to give them a wake-up call on Tuesday to help them get back on track. The Canadian was absent due to family reasons and was represented by his assistants Rob Cookson and Fabio Schwarz.
They saw the Swiss champions pay off two thirds of their mortgage through early and late goals in the central third from Jesper Freuden and Justin Siegrist. And then the last third is different from away games. The visiting team, coached by former ZSC coach Serge Aubin, extended their lead to 4:2 in the 43rd minute, but just 22 seconds later the Lions responded with a 3-4 goal through Juho Lammikko. Top scorers Sven Andrighetto (No. 50) and Derek Grant (No. 54) not only secured the victory in the end, but also scored 4:4 to tie the score to 5: 4. Help ZSC advance.
ZSC Lions – Eisbaren Berlin 5:4 (0:3, 2:0, 3:1)
6684 spectators.
SR Öhlund/Eriksson (Sweden), Fuchs/Duc (Switzerland).
Torre: 3. Weisman (Ronning, Pfoederl/Powerplaytor) 0:1. 13. Again (Byron) 0:2. 20. (19:57) Tifels 0:3. 21. (20:28) Froden (Webber, Marty) 1:3. 39. Siegrist (Andrighetto, Malkin) 2:3. 43. (42:11) Byron (Mueller, Nobel) 2:4. 43. (42:33) Ramico (Froden). 3:4. 50.Andrighetto (Kinnunen) 4:4. 54. Grant (Riedi, Rohrer) 5:4.
punish: 3 times for 2 minutes against ZSC Lions; 5 times for 2 minutes against Eisbaren Berlin.
Servetus confident in Germany
The Penguins, who came from the North Sea coast, had to chase down four goals to turn the situation around. Although they fired shots at Antti Raanta's goal from all positions, it wasn't until their 28th shot in the 46th minute that the Finns were beaten for the first time and then twice within 16 seconds, both times in the space of 16 seconds. Outnumbered.
Geneva goalkeeper Antti Raanta finished behind Geneva's Roger Karren and Bremerhaven's Miha Verlic.Image: trapezoid
At this time, coach Jan Cadieux's team already led 1-0 thanks to Alessio Bertagia's goal. He hit the empty net; given the increasingly desperate situation, Bremerhaven had pulled the goaltender off the ice. The score of 2-2 six minutes before the end eliminated any final doubts and it was also an “empty net”.
After winning the championship last season, Servetus once again reached the European Cup semi-finals. There you will get home advantage against ZSC Lions or Eisbären Berlin in mid-January.
Bremerhaven Penguins-Geneva-Servette 2:2 (0:0, 0:0, 2:2)
4436 spectators.
SR Prazak/Sindel (Czech Republic), Jurgens/Raguzov (Germany).
Torre: 43. Bertaggia (Voellmin, Lennström) 0:1 (into an empty net). 46. (45:27) Scheel/Powerplaytor 1:1. 46. (45:43) Urbas (Powerplaytor) 2:1. 54. Manninen (Puliot) 2:2 (empty net).
punish: 2 times for 2 minutes against Bremerhaven, 4 times for 2 minutes against Servetus. (HKL/SDA)
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