The Seelanders won 7-4 Friday in National League against Geneva-Servette, a direct competitor for a place in the play-in that they pushed to 7 points.
The GSHC, which remained on two victories in a row, retains its 12th place. Garnets are equal to points with Lugano (13th), which however has one more match. Bienne, now 9th, takes three lengths ahead of the 11th Rapperswi-Jona who collapsed in Zug (6-1).
Bienne quickly found the opening on Friday, after only 16 seconds of play, by Aleksi Heponiemi. However, the GSHC resisted well at first and was only led 4-3 after 40 minutes of play.
But the third third was too much for Geneva: Fabio Hofer (48th) and Anthony Greco (51st and 56th) “killed” the meeting by allowing their team to take off (7-3). Bienne will therefore serenely tackle her trip from Saturday to “Rappi”, while Geneva will have to revive against Langnau.
Friborg-Gottéron for its part took an additional step towards the play-off by going to win 3-2 after extension on the ice of the Zurich Lions. It was the Swedish duo Wallmark/Sörensen who forced the decision, Marcus Sörensen signing his second success of the evening after 64’06 to offer a fourth success in a row to his team.
Led 2-0 in the 17th, the “Z” took advantage of two errors of Christoph Bertschy to pick up thanks to goals from Denis Malgin (19th) and Vinzenz Rohrer (48th). The Lions abused the Friborg Defense at the end of the third third, in vain. And they could not face the mastery of Wallmark and Sörensen in “Overtime”.
Indisputable leader, the LHC went to win on Kloten’s ice (3-1) at the same time. All in management, the Vaudois first saw the airmen open the scoring by Pontus Aberg (7th). But the Lions quickly regained control of the game thanks to Lauri Pajuniemi (11th) and Damien Riat (18th).
Michael Raffl has broken the nail into the empty cage (60th) for Lausannois who take eight lengths ahead of their dolphins, the Zurich Lions, who are also mathematically assured of playing the title this spring. A shock of lions is also on the program on Saturday in Prilly.
Comedomed for a long time to have to fight for its maintenance in the elite, Ajoie also lost 5-2 against Davos in Porrentruy. Concating the opening of the score (16th), the Jurassians managed to equalize in Power-Play thanks to the butt of Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (18th).
But the additions did not manage to shake HC Davos, 5th in the ranking, which is guaranteed to compete at least the play-in. Zug (3rd) and CP Berne (4th), who went to win 3-1 in Lugano on Friday, are in the same case. As for Gottéron (6th), he is five points ahead of his first pursuer Langnau.
