The day before, in his office, Pat Emond was expecting a complicated match at the PostFinance Arena. As usual with these Bernese who remained in five straight wins in their pit against the Genevans, they were tough. The coach was not mistaken. The Grenats, who had not won in the capital since March 14 (3-2), again obtained two good points, even if they would have deserved the entire stake.
When the machine starts up, the Bernese evolve at their level, difficult indeed to resist them. Especially for this Ge / Servette, in a difficult period, which was in a small hole, leaving a funny impression, a bitter taste, like Thursday, a little struck, after tilted 9 to 6 in its ice rink face in Zurich.
It only took Sciaroni 135 seconds to scratch Robert Mayer’s cage.
It was pretty bad. But after having “cashed”, the visitor quickly got back in the direction of travel by considerably annoying the Bears in his neutral zone. The tactics developed by the Grenat staff would allow Eric Fehr to score his 4th goal in two days, a magnificent success in the 11th minute.
That of Andrew Ebbett, deflecting a cannon shot from Tristan Scherwey eleven seconds later will not be ugly either. This meeting, which started off very well at the PostFinance Arena, kept all its promises with Genevans who often dominated (13 shots to 9) before Henrik Tömmernes slipped the puck between Karhunen’s legs (13th).
Eric Fehr, who had never scored so many goals in his career, still found the opening in the middle of a second third (30th) where the Servettians, really stronger turned around the Manhandled bears, machine-gunning the doorman Karhunen. Even for four minutes with one more man on the ice (from the 34th to the 38th), the Bernese Bernese found themselves heckled, in their little skates, unable to regain their senses or so little.
Unrecognizable and really well paid when the Servettians fired 20 times towards the Finnish doorman while Mayer received only nine pucks on target, the first after 31 minutes …
But the Grenats were not immune to the return of these Bernese who are not the type to give up. For not being able to kill the meeting, GE / Servette was punished, Bern equalizing thanks to a powerful shot from Inti Pestoni (48th).
It took a very big Robert Mayer and a good defense for his business to finally allow … Roger Karrer to offer a deserved success to the Genevans in overtime, benefiting from a magnificent work of Tanner Richard and Tommy Wingels. The Grenats have found a team in the capital.
Christian Maillard, Berne
Bern – Ge / Servette 3-4 ap (2-2 0-1 1-0)
PostFinance Arena. 15,550 spectators. Referees: MM. Dipietro, Piechaczek (All); Obwegeser, Altmann.
goals: 3rd Sciaroni 1-0, 11th (10’02 ”) Fehr 1-1, 11th (10’23 ”) Ebbett (Scherwey) 2-1, 13th Tömmernes 2-2, 30th Fehr (Winnik, Maurer) 2- 3, 48th Pestoni (Arcobello) 3-3, 62nd Karrer (Wingels, Richard) 3-4.
Bern: Karhunen; Untersander, MacDonald; Krueger, Blum; Andersson, B. Gerber; C. Gerber; Praplan, Arcobello, Moser; Ruefenacht, Ebbett, Scherwey; Sciaroni, Heim, Pestoni; J. Gerber, Berger, Kämpf. Coach: Kari Jalunen.
Ge / Servette: Mayer; Karrer, Maurer; Jacquemet, Tömmernes; Le Coultre, Kast; Smons; Miranda, Fehr, Winnik; Wingels, Richard, Patry; Wick, Smirnovs, Bozon; Riat, Berthon, Maillard; Douay. Coach: Patrick Emond.
penalties: 3 x 2 ’against Bern; 3 x 2 ’+ 1 x 10’ (Maurer / charge against the head) against GE Servette.
Notes: Berne without Grassi, Bieber, Burren, Henauer (injured) and Mursak (supernumerary). Ge / Servette without Mercier, Völlmin, Fritsche (injured), Rod (suspended), Guebey, Charlin, Kyparissis, Vouillamoz nor Heinimann (with Sierre).
Created: 25.01.2020, 22h25
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