We are experiencing in the hockey stadiums a new game. Approximately every ten years the Swiss ice hockey is governed by a paradigm shift – a transformation that catapulted it to a higher level. And this is happening. I call the new style “frenetic ice hockey”. It is wild, Hyper-active, overwhelming, fast, characterised by permanent Pressing.
Everywhere on the ice pressure on the Puckführenden is made. He has no time, is driven to his limits – and beyond. Bad passes and concentration errors are immediately punished. No one can take a bet. The game revolves only around time and space – take it away, the opponents, and you win!
The SCB shows the ZSC
On Sunday at the indoor stadium of the SC Bern showed that he understands this new game is way better than the ZSC Lions. The first goal is a Prime example: The line with Ebbett, Fighting and Mursak sticking with your rotating Forechecking, combined with the vorpresche the defenders, like a blanket over Zurich in their Zone. Whenever you want to unpin a Blue with the Puck, was a yellow Bernese hornet in his face. Ebbett won the Puck and played him in on goal, where he Mursak drew on Flüelers shoulder. A goal out of Nothing!
But it’s not the Berner, the master of the frenetic ice hockey Swiss ice cream at its best. This honor comes on the EV train. I had the good fortune to watch a few games of Zug from the ice level, and their intensity and determination are impressive. I have to inwardly laugh when I remember the conversations that I conducted with my players.
“We can’t possibly forechecken 60 minutes!”, they used to tell you. That was inserts to the periods of 90-seconds-and bacon belts around the waist. Today’s hockey professionals are excellently trained, the discipline off the ice is just as important as in the Rink. There is not even in the team bus with beer. I don’t know if I would get through this!
first or second rank may seem to be a Handicap
It is, as you get through the Scandinavian wave of frenetic hockey and the entire hockey world. Also, most of the NHL Teams play now. And that makes sense. If you’re the most talented players time and space they will hurt you. The solution is simple: don’t Give it to you! The new style is selling for the Trainer easier to use. The most important rule is: “If you’re close to the player with the Puck, put pressure on him!” And if your Team has the Puck, support the Puckführenden as quickly as possible. Each player must participate. Even Rapperswil-Jona, and the advances are easy to recognize.
so What does this mean for the ZSC Lions in their precarious Situation at the end of the day? It was on Sunday is obvious that they are nervous. Klein’s mysterious misplaced pass in the start-up phase led to a 4-on-2 Situation for the Berner – and that Arcobello was forced to shoot the Puck only to 2:0 into the open goal. I’ve never experienced a 11’000 spectators so quiet. The Zurich has not lost in the no – man’s land of the hesitant ice-hockey-where decisions happen automatically, the pulse must first be thought before it is put into action. With other words: you were much too tense.
the Same thing we experienced last year. As Hans Kossmann took over the ZSC Lions, nothing happened until the Playoff. I wonder if it is the SCB, and the ECC in the study of the ranking nervous. Would like to have one of them, the ZSC Lions in the first Playoff round? If recent history is an indicator, could be the first or the second rank is a Handicap.
Bern and Zug still need to be faster
Frenetic ice hockey is simply a five-man pressing on the whole ice. The ZSC Lions are playing at the moment is a mix between the and the Davos-style of the last 20 years. I am convinced that Arno Del Curto has to free his Center from the tactical shackles, so that they can join the Party. Today’s hockey needs a Rotation of all three strikers when Forechecking, and also the defender have to participate. Every Team that wants to be a champion, you have to chase his opponent relentlessly across the ice. The Zurich could not put the SCB on Sunday with their 2-1-2 System sustainable under pressure.
The Swiss ice hockey this Winter head. Lugano and Davos are the bottom line. Zurich is in danger. Lausanne and Langnau are in the Top 4. The change to the frenetic ice hockey is so full of meaning, such as the introduction of zero tolerance by the end of 2005. In this year’s playoffs, almost every Team will maintain a Version of this new game style. The Scandinavian coaches in Bern, Zug, Lausanne, Langnau, Biel will all go “All-in”, each series will be a wear and tear of a fight.
This means that the Bernese will need to be even better and the Zuger even faster, to skip the obstacles in their. This can only be good for the development of the Swiss ice hockey – and we can look forward to good entertainment.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 19.02.2019, 16:34 PM
