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Coaches and captains have chosen the best players for the season
As usual, after the end of the regular season, three Swiss newspapers - "Tribune de Genève", "Bund" and "Tages-Anzeiger" - asked to NLA coaches and captains to choose the best players of the season.
For the third time, after prize in 2000-01 and 2012-13, SC Bern forward Martin Plüss won the title of MVP, mainly due to his amazing scoring avarage - 45 points (23+22) in 49 games. Plüss, 37, finished before another veteran, Lausanne goalie, Cristobal Huet, winner of the Best goalkeeper award. Lausanne takes home another prize: Heinz Ehlers was named Coach of the Year.
Other titles are for Swedish Daniel Sondell (EV Zug) as Best Defender, Fredrik Pettersson (Lugano), named Best Forward and Dario Simion (Davos), Revelation of the Season.
Were voted also two All-Star Team (one including all the players and the other only Swiss):
All-Star Team: Cristobal Huet (Lausanne); Daniel Sondell (EV Zug), Marc-André Gragnani (SC Bern); Fredrik Pettersson (Lugano), Martin Plüss (SC Bern), Linus Klasen (Lugano)
All-Star Team (Swiss): Cristobal Huet (Lausanne); Félicien Du Bois (Davos), Eric Blum (SC Bern); Martin Plüss (SC Bern), Roman Wick (ZSC Lions), Lino Martschini (EV Zug)
Czech Rep.:
Tipsport extraliga |
1.liga |
2.liga
Slovakia:
Tipsport Extraliga |
1.liga
Sweden:
SHL |
HockeyAllsvenskan
Other: EBEL | Belarus | Croatia | Denmark | Estonia | France | Great Britain | Iceland | Italy | Latvia | Lithuania | MOL-liga | Norway | Poland | Romania | Serbia | Slovenia | Spain | NHL | AHL |
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