Updated19. March 2024, 2:01 p.m.
Ice hockey: A GCK Lions match thrilled even Canada
Act VII of the Swiss League semi-final between Olten and Zurich generated particular attention in Montreal. Here’s why.
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Emmanuel Favre
The entry on stage of the players of match 7 between Olten and the GCK Lions.
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Do you know which Swiss ice hockey championship match generated the most attention across the globe last week?
Act I of the National League quarter-final between Fribourg-Gottéron and Lugano?
The face to face between Lausanne and Davos at the same stage of the competition?
The part that was most watched away from its epicenter was act VII of the Swiss League semi-final between Olten and the GCK Lions.
And it was not to analyze the coaching of Gary Sheehan, the head coach of the Solothurn club. Nor to be carried away by the songs of the Zurich kop, composed of one person.
Marc Schumacher/freshfocus
Do you know the identity of the National League hockey player who was the most scrutinized this past week?
The Swede Marcus Sörensen from Gottéron, author of two goals against Lugano?
His teammate and compatriot Lucas Wallmark, also involved in a double against the bianconeri?
Perhaps ZSC Lions Solothurn Denis Malgin, who hit the target twice against Biel?
The hockey player who has polarized interest is a guy who hasn’t played since March 4, who is 19 years old, who is a defender.
And who scored the dizzying figure of one goal in 35 starts with Kloten during the 2023-2024 regular season.
He is Austrian and holds a Swiss gaming license.
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The 5th pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.
By the Montreal Canadiens. An organization that needs its prospect’s Swiss campaign to be over to call on him and place him in its Laval Rocket school club until the end of this regular season.
Last week, we responded to around ten calls and messages from Quebec colleagues who needed to understand the particularities of our championship with its promotion-relegation system subject to the validation of certain criteria.
One thing is certain: our thing is difficult to explain and understand the first time.
“La Presse”: “David Reinbacher’s Swiss season is over”.
“Le Journal de Montréal”: “David Reinbacher can come to North America”.
“RDS”: “David Reinbacher is getting closer to Laval”.
The Canadian also ceded it to the Rocket this Monday.
Whatever happens, whether he becomes a star player or a shooting star in Montreal, David Reinbacher will remember one thing.
In Kloten, life was very calm…