Finns were prominently featured.
Jesse Puljujärvi’s Genève-Servette continues to fight for the Swiss championship. PDO
The Swiss Hockey League’s last semifinal team was decided late Thursday night when Genève-Servette knocked off Lausanne in the decisive seventh round of the quarterfinals.
The match ended with a 5–1 victory for the hosts.
The home team put the last seal on the game in the final set. Josh Jooris scored a 3–1 hit in 44:02.
The visitors tried to get narrow shots without the goalkeeper, but this was an attempt.
Markus Granlund scored his second goal of the evening to empty the puck and make the situation 4–1 in 56:54. Jimmy Vesey nailed another 5-1 goal into the void, and the home crowd’s party was ready to begin.
Lausanne already led the match series 3–2, and in the sixth semi-final, the solution had to be sought in overtime. Jesse Puljujärvi however, settled for the victory and stretched the decision to a stalemate.
The match got off to an explosive start when Giancarlo Chanton scored the game’s opening goal right at the beginning of the first period in 1:05. The crowd was tearing up after the jubilant hit.
Chanton was able to slide off the line into a good sector, from which the defender made no mistake. Goals are a rare treat for a man. He hit the last time on October 25.
Jooris and Vili Saarijärvi.
The home team’s party lasted barely a quarter of an hour. Lausanne rose to the level in 14:26 Austin Czarnik too with a man-of-the-match goal.
He distracted the opponent’s defensive player out of the sector with the tip pen, after which he fired the puck accurately into the front corner.
For a long time, it looked as if the second period would be tied at 1-1, but the best number one chain in the series, starred by the Finns, disagreed.
Puljujärvi gave an excellent layup pass to Saarijärvi, who was sliding towards the goal, who continued the game tool to the very free place for Granlund. Gralund shook the game to 2–1 with a real dressing room goal in 19:49.
The assist point was Saarijärvi’s second of the match.
In the third set, the hosts scored three goals, and the game was clear.
Genève-Servette (3rd in the regular season) will meet the regular season’s Nelonen ZSC Lions in the semi-finals.
