Nationwide League: essentially the most aggressive season in historical past? – rts.ch
The Nationwide League actually resumes its rights on Friday. However on Wednesday, followers will get a style of what guarantees to be a really attention-grabbing season with the Rapperswil-Zurich recreation.
Are we going to witness the very best Nationwide League season in historical past? Whether it is at all times tough to get into worth rankings, every little thing means that the 2022/23 monetary 12 months, with fourteen groups and 6 foreigners, can be spectacular.
By selecting to permit six foreigners on the ice, the league provided important added worth. As a result of with the warfare in Ukraine, a part of the very best Finns left the KHL for the Nationwide League. Logical, once we know that the Finnish, Swedish and Czech federations have warned that those that proceed to evolve within the KHL can be banned from the nationwide staff.
On this explicit context, Nationwide League groups have seen the arrival of upper caliber gamers in the marketplace. Thus Zurich was capable of signal Mikko Lehtonen, Lucas Wallmark and even goalkeeper Simon Hrubec, the Zug champion recruited Peter Cehlarik and Brian O’Neill, Lugano enlisted Markus Granlund, Oliwer Kaski and NHL goalkeeper Mikko Koskinen, whereas Geneva- Servette was capable of pay money for Teemu Hartikainen.
The hype across the GSHC
Behind the favorites Zurich and Zug (who’re aiming for the cross of three), the specialists anticipate to see Lugano and Geneva-Servette. It have to be stated that the Garnets hit arduous in the marketplace by recovering Linus Omark, his nice good friend Hartikainen, in addition to the Swiss attackers Vincent Praplan and Alessio Bertaggia. For his second season on the helm, coach Jan Cadieux has one hell of a machine, particularly when you understand that Henrik Tömmernes and Sami Vatanen are nonetheless there in protection.
Different much less assured Romands
Within the different golf equipment in French-speaking Switzerland, it shines lower than on the finish of Lake Geneva. However in Fribourg, we wager on continuity with all the identical the return to the fold of Christoph Bertschy and the commitments of Marcus Sörensen, sadly injured in a single hand, and Janne Kuokkanen. Spectacular 2nd within the common season final 12 months, Gottéron should goal for the highest 6.
Similar factor for Lausanne and Bienne who fought for this place final season. In Seeland, not a lot has modified. To compensate for the harm of goalkeeper Joren van Pottelberghe, we went to search out the Finn Harri Säteri. And as one other new import, the Swedish winger Jesper Olofsson who was a success with Langnau final season.
In Lausanne, we introduced in 4 new international strikers (Audette, Kovacs, Raffl and Salomäki), in addition to Marco Pedretti and Michael Hügli. The contingent is wanting fairly good and if the Vaudois begin their season the way in which they began 2022, they might discover themselves on the correct aspect.
As for Ajoie, even when the sports activities director Julien Vauclair has struggled to enhance the staff, it is a secure wager that the Jura membership is combating to not end in play-out.
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