Tuesday, 14. November 2023 |
Champions League: EHC Red Bull München vor Achtelfinal-Hinspiel gegen Genf
65 days, 24 competitive games. The program for coach Toni Söderholm's team was really tough. After 18 DEL and six CHL games, game number seven in the European premier class follows on Wednesday evening.
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In the round of 16, the two reigning champions from Germany and Switzerland will face off. "We're really looking forward to it. We've got a strong opponent in Geneva. But we'll be super prepared," said Maxi Kastner ahead of the start of the knockout phase. At Oberwiesenfeld, the Red Bulls want to put themselves in a good starting position for the second leg against the Swiss on November 22.
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However, coach Jan Cadieux's team has set itself the same goal. Last season, the current Swiss champions won the best-of-seven final series against EHC Biel 4:3 to secure the first championship title in the club's history. In the current season, the seventh-placed team in the CHL preliminary round is in eighth place in the domestic National League (NL).
Stanley Cup, Olympic gold and World Championship title
The squad consists largely of home-grown cracks, who are joined by experienced top imports from Scandinavia and Canada. The defense is led by Sami Vatanen, who already has 524 NHL games on his resume. Together with the attacking trio of Valtteri Filppula (1,222 NHL games), Teemu Hartikainen (52 NHL games) and Sakari Manninen, the Finn won both Olympic gold and the World Championship with his home country last year.
Center Filppula also won the Stanley Cup with the Detroit Red Wings in 2008, making him a member of the select "Triple Gold Club". Daniel Winnik can also look back on a long career in North America. The Canadian played 861 times in the NHL. Josh Jooris and Marc-Antoine Pouliot have also played several hundred games in the world's best league.
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"They have very good quality. I think they will play very physically," said Kastner in the run-up to the match. "We simply have to make sure that we minimize our mistakes. Otherwise, they'll punish us coldly. We'll give it our all in any case."
CHL record against Swiss teams
Our comparison in the Champions League with teams from the country of the Swiss reads positively. We've won ten of our 16 games against Zug, Fribourg-Gottéron, Ambrì-Piotta, Rapperswil-Jona and Bern (goal difference: 45:40).
We have also met Geneva three times in test matches. In August 2013, Munich lost 5-0, while in 2015 and 2016 we came out on top 4-1 and 4-0 respectively.
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