The 3:2 from the first leg wasn’t enough for EHC Red Bull Munich: In the second leg of the round of 16 of the Champions Hockey League, the German champions lost 1:3 to the Swiss club Geneve-Servette HC and were eliminated.
Munich coach Toni Söderholm warned after the 3-2 first leg win, the Swiss would be out for revenge. And that’s exactly how it happened: the strong home Swiss champions Geneve-Servette HC struck back in the second leg. Thanks to the 3:1 (0:1, 1:0, 2:0), Geneva is in the quarter-finals, while the Munich team, like the DEL clubs ERC Ingolstadt and Adler Mannheim, have to give up.
Quarterfinal dream bursts in the final third
The Munich team celebrated their greatest success in the Champions Hockey League (CHL) in the 2018/2019 season when they made it to the final and only lost there against record winners Frölunda HC Göteborg. After that, the EHC made it into the top eight teams in 2019/20 and 2021/22. This time the hoped-for fourth jump into the CHL quarter-finals fell through in the final third.
Patrick Hager had put former national coach Söderholm’s team in the lead eleven seconds before the end of the first third (20th), but Teemu Hartikainen (36th) and Josh Jooris (48th) turned the game around, and Tanner Richard (51st) finally scored to the final score of 1:3. In the heated final phase, Munich missed several chances to force extra time with a goal. At the end the Swiss champions celebrated.
Source: BR24Sport on the radio November 22nd, 2023 – 9:55 p.m
