A point is better than nothing, some Lions supporters will say. Hoping for a soon return of Rochette, Glauser and Oksanen, the Vaudois played a better game than Thursday against Davos, even if they conceded too many goals.
Geoff Ward’s men had a good first third, taking a two-goal lead through Kuokkanen and Jäger a few hundredths before the siren. This goal could have hurt the Leventins, but they reduced the score after 35 seconds in the middle third, then Dominik Kubalik stood out by scoring a double with the second just before the break there too.
It took a very good game from Frick and Riat for the Lions number 9 to equalize in the 51st minute with a skillfully placed shot. The people of Lausanne then gave the feeling of being closer to 4-3 than the people of Ticino, but nothing more was scored during this period, nor even during the extra time, again dominated by the people of Lausanne, but in a manner quite sterile, apart from one occasion for Suomela.
The penalties therefore decided the awarding of the second point of this game and in this game it was the Leventins who were the most effective, scoring three against only two for the Vaudois.
In the second match of the day, Berne continued its very good period by signing its fourth victory in a row. In front of nearly 17,000 spectators at home, the Bears beat Rapperswil 4-2.
