{"id":26389,"date":"2026-03-06T05:35:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/26389\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T05:35:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T05:35:43","slug":"match-up-preview-brynas-ready-to-take-on-swiss-side-bern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/26389\/","title":{"rendered":"Match-Up Preview | Bryn\u00e4s ready to take on Swiss side Bern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Bryn\u00e4s, defence has been the foundation. The Swedish side conceded only ten goals in six games &#8211; among the best figures in the CHL &#8211; and posted two shutouts along the way. Their campaign began with a loss, but what followed was a perfect road trip, winning convincingly in Hradec Kr\u00e1lov\u00e9 and following it up with a 4\u20132 home success over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chl.hockey\/en\/teams\/954f0696fef5e714282a6d75\/kac-klagenfurt#select_team=0&amp;select_team-schedule=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KAC Klagenfurt<\/a> and then yet another win against reigning CHL Champions\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chl.hockey\/en\/teams\/b1dfe27dfb8fc9eb6ae5337a\/zsc-lions-zurich#select_team=0&amp;select_team-schedule=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ZSC Lions Zurich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even in their two narrow defeats that followed, Bryn\u00e4s showed structure and composure, traits that will serve them well in the Playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Up front, <a href=\"#playerId=ebd2e4339a409bd5510be0cd\">Lucas Pettersson<\/a> has been the spark with three goals and five points, while <a href=\"#playerId=51c0130673af4616ed4398d9\">Anton R\u00f6din<\/a> and centre <a href=\"#playerId=128eb00156cde7b0a34c8677\">Linus \u00d6lund<\/a> have added experience and work rate. On defence, <a href=\"#playerId=1ca2961364de47183c8c8c00\">Robert H\u00e4gg<\/a> and <a href=\"#playerId=352746ea1f5bcd686471fcab\">Mattias Norlinder<\/a> bring stability and puck movement and goaltenders <a href=\"#playerId=38ce8bf5227790503344f539\">Collin Delia<\/a> (91.7% save percentage) and <a href=\"#playerId=0ad644cab41b9d4927e7e074\">Damian Clara<\/a> (95.9% save percentage) have combined for a strong tandem.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most striking number, though, is Bryn\u00e4s\u2019s 100% penalty kill, a figure matched only by Finnish side <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chl.hockey\/en\/teams\/973add0ee7ab1b8c38f4781e\/ilves-tampere#select_team=0&amp;select_team-schedule=0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ilves Tampere<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Bryn\u00e4s, defence has been the foundation. The Swedish side conceded only ten goals in six games &#8211;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[104,10941,16074,6339,4130,5037,4132],"class_list":{"0":"post-26389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bern","8":"tag-bern","9":"tag-brynas-if","10":"tag-match-up-preview","11":"tag-playoffs","12":"tag-round-of-16","13":"tag-sc-bern","14":"tag-season-2025-26"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116180610171804868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389","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=26389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}