Posts tagged with "NLA"
Matt Duchene, Cory Schneider To Return To North America Early Next Week
January 5th, 2013 As reported by Swiss media, both Ambri-Piotta lockout players Matt Duchene and Cory Schneider will play their last games for the Swiss-Italian club on Sunday, January 6th and are expected to be back in North America by Monday. As per the Ambri-Piotta website: (D) Die Entscheidung der Spieler stützt sich auf die Überzeugung, dass...
The ZSC Lions Win Swiss NLA Championship In Dramatic Fashion
April 17th, 2012 The ZSC Lions have won the Swiss Championship in a frantic finish to the playoff final series, taking Game 7 against SC Bern with a Steve McCarthy goal 3 seconds before the end of regulation for a famous 2-1 victory and securing the Zurich club's first championship since 2008. The series started evenly with Bern winning the first...
Martschini, Trutmann Say Goodbye to OHL
April 4th, 2012 Since 1980, when the OHL separated from the Ontario Hockey Association, several European countries have had representation in the league as import players. One country with significantly lower numbers than most, though, is Switzerland, a nation that has had only 13 native-born individuals come over to play in the OHL. To make it even...
Fribourg Setting Early Pace In Swiss NLA- Scoring Race Heats Up
October 29th, 2011 With the Swiss hockey season around 20 games into a 50 game schedule, the NLA has an unlikely leader in Fribourg-Gotteron. The French-Swiss team who play out of the 7000 capacity Patinoire St-Léonard stadium, are in a great position to challenge for their first Swiss championship, 5 years after they were saved from...
Ex-NHL Players Lighting Up Switzerland- Tambellini Shines
September 11th, 2011 Did the Vancouver Canucks make a mistake by not offering Jeff Tambellini a contract for the new season? If his stats for the first two games of the season in Zurich are anything to go by, they may well have. Tambellini has started the 2011/12 season with 3 goals and 2 assists for a league leading 5 points, 2 more than any other NLA...