HC Davos confirms the break with a 5:1 home win against EV Zug and takes a 2:0 lead in the quarter-final series. The match-winner is three-goal scorer Adam Tambellini.
16.03.2025, 22:32
16.03.2025, 22:51
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After 40 minutes, the expected goals model gave Davos a value of 1.1, while Zug's was 0.6. In fact, it was 3:0 for the Grisons team. Although it would be presumptuous to blame Zug goalkeeper Leonardo Genoni for this, he could have stopped Adam Tambellini's 0:2 (28). The Canadian caught him from the side in the near corner, although the view was good.
Genoni substituted
Tambellini had already made it 1:0 in the 25th minute and was also responsible for the 4:0 (47.). He had already scored three times in the 6-2 win in Zug at the end of September. 16 seconds after the 4:0 Chris Egli scored to make it 5:0, after which Genoni was replaced by Tim Wolf.
The 0:4 was an own goal by EVZ defenseman Gabriel Carlsson. It was in keeping with Zug's poor evening. Not only did they fail to deliver, they also lost defenseman Niklas Hansson at the beginning of the second period, who probably injured his knee.
Loss of Hansson
The loss of the Swedish veteran would be all the more fatal for Central Switzerland as they were without six regular players, as they had been two days earlier. Among others, Lukas Bengtsson, the most important defender in the team, and captain Jan Kovar were missing. Zug head coach Dan Tangnes, who will leave the club at the end of the season after seven years, can only hope that one or two injured players will return, otherwise it will be even more difficult to turn the series around.
Davos - Zug 5:1 (0:0, 3:0, 2:1)
6547 spectators. - SR Lemelin (USA)/Ruprecht, Stalder/Urfer. - Goals: 25. Tambellini 1:0. 28. Tambellini (powerplay goal) 2:0. 37. Stransky (Ryfors, Tambellini) 3:0. 47. (46:07) Tambellini (Fora) 4:0. 47. (46:23) Egli 5:0. 56. Riva (Wingerli/powerplay goal) 5:1. - Penalties: 7 times 2 minutes against Davos, 5 times 2 minutes against Zug. - PostFinance top scorers: Tambellini; Martschini.
Davos: Aeschlimann; Andersson, Jung; Fora, Dahlbeck; Honka, Gross; Guebey, Barandun; Stransky, Ryfors, Tambellini; Knak, Nussbaumer, Zadina; Kessler, Egli, Ambühl; Wieser, Gredig, Parrée.
Zug: Genoni (47. Wolf); Muggli, Carlsson; Hansson, Riva; Stadler, Johnson; Mischa Geisser; Martschini, Wingerli, Vozenilek; Simion, Olofsson, Hofmann; Eggenberger, Senteler, Biasca; Wey, Leuenberger, Lindemann: Davos without Corvi, Frehner, Nordström (all injured), Lemieux and McShane (both overage foreigners). Zug without Bengtsson, Tobias Geisser, Schlumpf, Kovar, Herzog and Künzle (all injured).
