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Holey Tigers defense: Aleski Saarela, Yannick Blaser, Larry Leeger, goalie Gianluca Zaetta and Harry Pesonen (from left) defend themselves desperately against ZSC double scorer John Quenneville.
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Jules Sturny (left), Anthony Huguenin, Pascal Berger (right) and SCL goalie Gianluca Zaetta after one of the 14 goals against the weekend.
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Coach Jason O’Leary says that his Langnauer’s problem is not the goalie, but the penalties.
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With a 4-1 win in Lugano, the season began like a dream for the SCL Tigers. But since then it has been going downhill. In numbers: 4 bankruptcies and 22 goals conceded. There are several reasons for the crash. Foreigners who have barely appeared after a strong first weekend, many unnecessary penalties or the failure of regular goalkeeper Ivars Punnenovs. The Latvian had to leave the ice on Friday in Bern after 20 minutes after he was hit in the head by SCB top scorer Conacher. Punnenovs will be out for at least a week with a mild concussion.
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video-wrapper video-wrapper--inline">Tigers goalie injured: Here Punnenovs is hit in the head by SCB-Conacher(00:22)
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A heavy mortgage. Because substitute keeper Gianluca Zaetta cannot help the team – at least so far. At 1: 8 in Bern and 2: 6 against ZSC, the 21-year-old conceded eleven goals in 80 minutes, achieved a defense rate of just 77.5 percent and was defeated by the 19-year-old NL after two thirds against the Lions -Debutant Tim Baumann replaced.
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The Tigers do not want to know anything about a goalkeeper problem – at least in public. Captain Pascal Berger says: «It doesn’t matter who is in the goal. It wasn’t the goalie in either game. ” And coach Jason O’Leary evades and simply says: “Against Zurich, the penalties were our problem.” When a journalist pointed out that you couldn’t win a game without a good goalie, the Canadian didn’t respond. He repeats: “Penalties, penalties, penalties. That was the problem.”
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O’Leary wants to rebuild Zaetta
Undoubtedly there were far too many of them, four Lions hits were scored in the power play, with a fifth, a Langnauer penalty had only expired a few seconds. Nevertheless: Should the injury-prone Punnenovs be absent for a longer period of time, the Tigers have to upgrade between the posts. The name Robert Mayer, who is on the sidelines at HCD, haunted the media. But here, too, O’Leary is reluctant. “I’m not someone who says I need this or that. We have what we have. And it is now up to us to rebuild Gianluca so that he is ready on Tuesday. “
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Then it goes against Davos, where the Tigers want to stop the negative run. After two clear failures, a reaction is needed. O’Leary says, “When so much is going badly as it was recently, it is dangerous to fall back into old habits. We have to stop that. We have to ignore the negative and take the positive with us. “
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In addition to Punnenovs, striker Michael Loosli, who was banned from one game for his cross check against Zurich’s Yannick Weber, will be missing against HCD.
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