{"id":14301,"date":"2026-02-20T16:35:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/14301\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T16:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T16:35:14","slug":"lulea-on-the-hunt-for-points-against-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/14301\/","title":{"rendered":"Lule\u00e5 on the hunt for points against Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After scoring the equaliser in the third,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chl.hockey\/en\/teams\/cfdf4169f0c8e8ff93cf24da\/lulea-hockey#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lule\u00e5 Hockey<\/a>\u00a0seemed to have caught some steam, but a stingy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chl.hockey\/en\/teams\/4472b82fc7441fedc37b82e3\/ev-zug#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EV Zug<\/a>\u00a0defence, capped off by the excellent play of\u00a0<a href=\"#select_team=0&amp;select_team-schedule=0&amp;playerId=49832092ed1ea6c398391d12\">Leonardo Genoni<\/a>,\u00a0left a sour taste in the Swedes&#8217; mouths as they failed to take home the victory on home ice.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedes played an extremely tight game. They were able to match Zug&#8217;s intensity at times &#8211; even outshooting them &#8211; and outpaced them for some stretches. Yet, their lack of engineering sustained offensize zone time ultimately stonewalled them from producing any real threat to the more structured play of the Swiss.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve managed to beat Bern twice in the past: 3-0 in the\u00a0PostFinance Arena before storming to a 4-2 win at home. If they are to replicate one of those nights, they&#8217;ll need to dig deep and find their strength as Bern are a top contender in every competition they play in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After scoring the equaliser in the third,\u00a0Lule\u00e5 Hockey\u00a0seemed to have caught some steam, but a stingy\u00a0EV Zug\u00a0defence, capped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,10359,10360,5037,4132,4129],"class_list":{"0":"post-14301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-game-day-2","10":"tag-lulea-hockey","11":"tag-sc-bern","12":"tag-season-2025-26","13":"tag-spotlight-game"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}