Fribourg loses to Flyers in semifinal opener

27 Mar 2014 | Andreas Reiner

Fribourg lost their first game of the playoffs at home against an efficient Flyers Team 2:4

Both teams had met 4 times during the regular season in which Fribourg and Kloten each won 2 games. Fribourg finished just ahead of Kloten with 1 point.

In the first period it was Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Eric-Ray Blum that got to each other in the 3rd minute and so both players were sent to cool down for Roughing. But neither team could profit from the the additional space on the ice. With 11 minutes played, centerman Romano Lemm (Eric Blum) scored the opening goal of the game. And only 5 minutes later Janick Steinmann doubled the score to make it 0:2. Tommi Santala (Holding) and Lukas Stoop (Charging) gave Fribourg a chance to score the connecting goal.

But it was Romano Lemm again in the 27th minute (Victor Stancescu) who scored the 3rd goal and gave the Flyers a comfortable lead. But all of a sudden, the Dragons got stronger, creating more chances and pushing back the Flyers defense again and again. With 34 minutes played it was Jérémie Karezin who brought Fribourg on the scoreboard a first time and within a little more than a minute Timo Helbling added another goal to make the score 2:3. Fribourg kept the pressure high but was unable to add another goal to the score.

54 minutes were played when oldie Marcel Jenni scored on Benjamin Conz in the top right corner assisted by Janick Steinmann and Aurelio Lemm. A time out in the last minute didn't give Fribourg the break it need and so this was too much for the Dragons and so the game ended with 2:4 and a first break for the Flyers. The Series now continue on Saturday in Kloten.

Head Referees: Marco Prugger, Daniel Stricker
Linesmen: Franco Espinoza, Andreas Kohler

Spectators @BFC Arena: 6'700 (sold out)

SOG:
HCFG: not available
KF: not available

Fribourg: Benjamin Conz; Ngoy, Kwiatkowski; Kamerzin, Schilt; Helbling, Birbaum; Huguenin; Mottet, Dubé, Hagman; Sprunger, Bykow, Benny Plüss; Mauldin, Pouliot, Monnet; John Fritsche, Ness, Tristan Vauclair; Hasani
Kloten: Martin Gerber; DuPont, von Gunten; Schelling, Blum; Stoop, Vandermeer; Gian-Andrea Randegger, Frick; Peter Mueller, Santala, Bieber; Simon Bodenmann, Liniger, Steinmann; Bühler, Romano Lemm, Stancescu; Herren, Jenni, Aurelio Lemm