Davos center Enzo Corvi returns to the team surprisingly early. In the fifth game of the playoff final, he already shines with two assists - as a dad with tired legs and frayed nerves.
27.04.2026, 01:24
27.04.2026, 07:06
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It's one of those sugar passes that make Enzo Corvi one of the best players with a Swiss passport. It lands with centimeter precision on the stick of Matej Stransky, who finishes in the 36th minute to give Davos its first lead against Fribourg-Gottéron. In the end, overtime was needed on Sunday evening before the third victory in the best-of-7 series was secured. Corvi recorded two assists and was named best player.
The astonishing thing about it: Corvi had only returned to the team on Friday in Game 4 in Freiburg after more than three months off due to a head and neck injury. To the surprise of many, not least his own. "When we were 2-1 down after the third game, we sat down with the coaching and medical staff," he revealed after the overtime win. "Come on, let's give it a go, we thought. And it went quite well."
No training with the team and tired legs
Corvi still doesn't see himself at one hundred percent. When asked how he feels, the 33-year-old from Chur grimaces slightly. "Bad, I have to be honest. The legs are somehow not there yet." He has had almost no preparation for the game. "I haven't trained much. And never trained with the team." But he just wanted to help a little, with the bullies, work cleanly in defense. "My teammates also make it easy for me, they run for me so I don't have to run as much."
For teammate Simon Knak, there's a lot of understatement in Corvi's words. "He's actually like a young 21-year-old, he always likes it," says the 2025 World Championship silver medallist with a laugh about the 2018 winner. "You just have to tell him in your head sometimes that he still likes it. And then he comes back with these sugar passes."
Too nervous to watch to the end
First and foremost, Corvi is happy to be back on the ice, because he didn't like watching at all. "Very brutal," he describes the experience. "I watched maybe two thirds, then I went home because I was so nervous." Corvi currently has one more good reason to enjoy going home.
On April 6, in the middle of the semi-final series against the ZSC Lions, he became the father of a daughter named Nova. "I might not sleep so well at night, but it's mega nice," he enthuses, his eyes shining. It could therefore be a very special April for the man from Graubünden, "with the title as the crowning glory", as he says. On Tuesday, he has his first chance to become Swiss champion for the second time since 2015 in Fribourg. And if it doesn't work out there, a second at home in Davos on Thursday.
