Not sure yet – where will Philip Wüthrich play next season?Bild: keystone
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Ambri will not advance to the playoff final next spring for the second time since 1999. But in the transfer playoff for Philip Wüthrich (26), Ambri’s sports director Paolo Duca still reached the final against SC Bern.
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Langnau’s capable sports director Pascal Müller failed to persuade Philip Wüthrich to transfer to Langnau. Although he offered Bern’s “eternal” number 2 the chance to finally mature into number 1 in Emmental. Anyone who isn’t number 1 in the club will never be number 1 in a World Cup team.
Pascal Müller failed in the semi-finals, so to speak. Now the transfer playoff final will be played between Ambri and SC Bern for one of the most talented Swiss goalies. Paulo Duca against SCB senior sports director Martin Plüss and SCB junior sports director Patrik Bärtschi. With home advantage SCB.
It is also a “hockey culture clash”. Wealth and fame without maximum responsibility and no chance of becoming number 1 in Bern. The challenge of a promising duel for number 1 against Gilles Senn, plenty of hockey romance, but significantly less reward in Ambri. Philip Wüthrich earns almost 400,000 francs in his expiring contract with SCB, making him the most expensive number 2 in our hockey history. If he extends his stay in Bern, he will not have to accept a noticeable reduction in his salary. The transfer fund in Bern is full to the brim (as the transfer of Ronalds Kenins has just shown). Keeping Philip Wüthrich is also important for club political reasons. There is also enough money to improve the extension offer for national striker Thierry Bader.
The move from the SCB comfort zone to the barren Leventina mountain valley always pays off for SCB talents: Marco Müller only became a dominant center in Ambri and, after a victory lap over Zug and Lugano, returns to SCB with fanfare through the front door next season . André Heim, who was deemed unfit to lead a forward line in Bern, has made it to assistant captain in Ambri and made it into the notebooks of NHL scouts. Yanik Burren has matured into an NL defenseman in two years in Ambri and today has the second most ice time of the Swiss defenders in Biel. Marc Gautschi, now sports director in Geneva, only became a qualified NL defender in Ambri and even made it to captain.
Benefited from his time at Ambri and will soon return to Bern: Marco Müller.Bild: KEYSTONE/Ti-Press
This special relationship between SC Bern and Ambri, between the capital of the country and the stimulating hockey climate in the barren mountain valley of the Leventina, between the big business of hockey with princely salaries and one of the last resorts of hockey romance has a very special charm. The fact that someone who cannot assert themselves in Bern thrives in Ambri also has something to do with the geographical distance: Anyone who travels from Bern to Ambri has to cut the “umbilical cord”. No culture shock like moving to North America. But the move to a new world on the other side of the Alpine ridge requires a new form of independence.
Now Philip Wüthrich is faced with the most important decision of his career. To put it polemically: extend your stay in Bern and stagnate or move to Ambri and benefit from a new challenge.
HCD, SCB, ZSC and? These clubs have already become Swiss hockey champions
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HCD, SCB, ZSC and? These clubs have already become Swiss hockey champions
HC Davos: 31 titles, 6 since 1986; last champion: 2015.
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