Ambri in top of the chain

29 Oct 2013 | Luis Lopes

Who would have thought that before the season starts Ambri-Piotta would be first after 17 games?; Rising star Lukas Meili get's big; Geneva does the job at home;

Ambri 5 Davos 2

Who would have thought that before the season starts Ambri-Piotta would be first after 17 games? Probably nobody. After the game against Davos, experts are starting to see Ambri has a real candidate for a place in top 8. In Swiss, teams need at least 68 points pour a play-off spot. Like Geneva and Kloten the last two seasons, one big team would be out of play-offs. For the moment defending champions Bern, also Lugano and Zug are in trouble.

So, the signs are good that Ambri for the first time since 2006 will make it. The Valascia stadium is already rocking just by thinking an eventual place in top 8.

Although Davos scored by the Scandinavians Marcus Paulsson and Ville Koistinen twice, it was clearly not enough. Alexandre Giroux(two goals and one assist) and Nolan Schaefer(34 saves) led Ambri to a huge victory.

Biel 2 Kloten 1

In the game between Biel and Kloten goalies were the focus . Biel won 2-1, the Canadians Ryan MacMurchy and Eric Beaudoin scored the goals Biel .

Berra isn't there anymore? No problem. Young rising star Lukas Meili is at Ice Stadium to save the situation. The 21 year-old goalie from Biel won his match up against Martin Gerber, one of the World Cup heroes from last spring in Stockholm. Lukas Meili(39 saves) wasn't far(128 seconds) from the third shutout of the season. And what is the prize for the great exhibitions? You get to play for Swiss team. In the same day the young goalie received the good news, he will play the Deutschland cup between 8 and 10 November. In interview to newspaper « journal du jura » Martin Steinegger the GM from Biel had mixed emotions : « it's great and I'm happy for him, but I never saw in Swiss a kid with 30 games between the pipes being called to play in National team, I think it's too soon »

Geneva 3 Lugano 0

It wasn't a great game between Geneva and Lugano, but home team did more then enough to win the hockey game. None of teams take a big risk to win the game and booth teams played well in neutral zone, the most part of shots came out from long distance. The goalies, Stephan(33 saves) and Manzato(33 saves) made a very good game.