Urs Berger

Since 1977 in hockey. referee for 15 years, since 2000 journalist. I did cover over 10 WJC, 10 World Championships and 2 Olympics (2006 and 2010) I was born in Berne where my home town club is. SC Bern is, outside of the NHL, the club with the most spectators. Every year they have about 16`000 per game.

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Swiss NLA — Get to Know the 12-Team League

October 17th, 2019 The Swiss NLA has 12 Teams. Get to know those teams. I will walk you trough the teams and there Fans. Also I include some information about the imports. And you can see some funny videos. So, fasten your seat-belt and lets go.

2020 World Championship Host - Get to Know Swiss Hockey

October 11th, 2019 Do Collin Gerber, Miro Zryd or Alexander Heim sound familiar? If they do, you must be Swiss. If not, don't worry, you'll get used to their names, because you will read about them in future articles. I didn't know much about the NHL so, you are in good company if you don’t know the hockey leagues in Switzerland. There are quite a...

NLA's Fribourg-Gotteron Fired Mark French After 6 Games

October 8th, 2019 Head coach Mark French was recently fired by Fribourg-Gottéron of Switzerland's NLA after six games into the 2019-20 season. The former Calgary Hitmen head coach still had a valid contract for this and the next season. Former New York Ranger Christian Dubé and former Los Angeles Kings forward Pavel Rosa are now behind the...