HC Lugano turns the game around at home against Kloten in extremis in the final period. The Ticino side trailed 2:4 with 226 seconds remaining - and went on to win 5:4 on penalties.
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Lugano scored first 16 seconds before the first intermission to tie the game at 1:1 through Zach Sanford. In the final phase of the second period, Lorenzo Canonica equalized to 2-2 while short-handed (!). In the final period, Linus Omark scored two goals within 105 seconds to tie the game at 4:4. These were Omark's first goals since returning to the National League.
Five goals twice
Dario Simion, Mike Sgarbossa and Calvin Thürkauf scored for Lugano in the penalty shootout, while only Oula Palve scored for Kloten.
Lugano scored five goals twice this weekend in Geneva (5:1) and at home against Kloten (5:4 n.p.). In the first ten rounds, the Ticino team always scored fewer than five goals.
Lugano - Kloten 5:4 (1:1, 1:2, 2:1, 0:0) n.P.
5468 spectators. - SR Wiegand/Hebeisen, Cattaneo/Meusy. - Goals: 11. Meyer (Klok/powerplay goal) 0:1. 20. (19:44) Sanford (Müller, Alatalo) 1:1. 24. Klok (Leino) 1:2. 37. (36:12) Canonica (Sanford/underpaid goal!) 2:2. 37. (36:46) Simic (Klok, Schreiber/powerplay goal) 2:3. 46. Weibel (Wolf, Diem) 2:4. 57th (56:14) Omark (Thürkauf) 3:4. 58th (57:59) Omark (Fazzini, Simion/powerplay goal) 4:4. - Penalty shoot-out: Simion 1:0, Palve 1:1; Sgarbossa 2:1, Puhakka -; Fazzini -, Leino -; Thürkauf 3:1, Morley -. - Penalties: 2 times 2 minutes against Lugano, 3 times 2 minutes against Kloten. - PostFinance top scorers: Thürkauf; Puhakka.
Lugano: Schlegel; Aebischer, Dahlström; Müller, Alatalo; Carrick, Jesper Peltonen; Brian Zanetti; Omark, Thürkauf, Simion; Fazzini, Sgarbossa, Canonica; Cormier, Sanford, Perlini; Marco Zanetti, Tanner, Aleksi Peltonen.
Kloten: Fadani; Wolf, Lindroth; Profico, Klok; Hausheer, Kellenberger; Steiner; Simic, Leino, Puhakka; Ramel, Palve, Schreiber; Meyer, Morley, Schäppi; Weibel, Diem, Smirnovs; Derungs.
Remarks: Lugano without Bertaggia (suspended), Kupari, Morini and Sekac (all injured), Kloten without Gignac, Simon Meier and Waeber (all injured).
