{"id":8114,"date":"2026-02-15T23:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8114\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T23:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T23:30:11","slug":"controlled-11-goal-game-from-geneve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/8114\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlled 11-goal game from Gen\u00e8ve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reigning CHL Champions\u00a0Gen\u00e8ve-Servette<\/a>\u00a0had the comfort of a five-goal buffer and never lost the edge in their 7-4 win over Lausanne HC<\/a>\u00a0in the Return Game of their Round of 16 match-up.<\/p>\n

Despite missing Sami Vatanen<\/a>\u00a0and netminder\u00a0Antti Raanta<\/a>\u00a0from the line-up, it was a controlled game by Gen\u00e8ve who narrowly outshot their opponents 25-23. Vincent\u00a0Praplan<\/a>\u00a0led the charge for his side with a stunning five-point performance.<\/p>\n

Lausanne\u00a0had a mountain to climb and got off to a great start scoring 1.49 minutes into the play. An unfortunate step by\u00a0Praplan\u00a0saw Antti Suomela<\/a> poke-check the puck to\u00a0Damien\u00a0Riat<\/a> who slid it past netminder\u00a0Robert Mayer<\/a>\u00a0to make it 1-0 for the visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A hooking penalty on forward Oula\u00a0Palve<\/a> would have been another chance but was run down by the hosts. As regular play resumed, Palve now fresh out of the penalty box redeemed himself instantly, rifling a slapshot from the high slot, and past Kevin\u00a0Pasche<\/a> to equalise at 6:33.<\/p>\n

A little over a minute later, the hosts extended the lead 2-1, this time through Praplan who managed a neat, mid-air deflection off an initial shot from veteran blueliner Arnaud\u00a0Jacquemet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Riat collected his second unassisted goal of the night, this time dangling his way into the slot to net the 2-2 equaliser at 14:28.<\/p>\n

Gen\u00e8ve continued the onslaught in the second period, taking advantage of any defensive errors by their rivals, including a poorly calculated clearance by Pasche, whose pass up the boards was intercepted by Praplan, after a perfectly executed forecheck from Michael \u0160pa\u010dek<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trailing 3-2, Lausanne’s Top Scorer Suomela came dangerously close to pulling the trigger on the doorstep of Mayer but lost control at the critical moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A tripping call on Canadian forward Josh\u00a0Jooris<\/a>\u00a0handed Lausanne powerplay number three of the night, but they couldn’t muster any offensive magic before the period intermission.<\/p>\n

Lausanne netminder\u00a0Antoine Keller<\/a>\u00a0stepped in to cover the final period for his team and was tested quickly. Less than two minutes into the play, Praplan would net his third goal of the night, a cannon, just in from the blueline.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

To make things worse, a call on\u00a0Ken J\u00e4ger<\/a>\u00a0resulted in a penalty shot being awarded to the home team. Praplan who had been running hot all night, deked, pulling the puck to his backhand to beat Keller a second time, lighting the lamp a fourth time, and bringing the score to 5-2.<\/p>\n

Jason Fuchs<\/a> netted his first goal of the night, reducing the deficit to 5-3, but Gen\u00e8ve were primed for two more powerplay goals, off the back of a high-sticking call on Gael Haas<\/a>. Six seconds later\u00a0Teemu Hartikainen would strike at 51:57 to make it 6-3, and Jooris once more, taking the scoreboard to 7-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back on equal strength, Lausanne’s\u00a0Michael H\u00fcgli<\/a>\u00a0responded to cut the deficit 7-4, but with less than six minutes remaining in the period, further efforts would prove futile.<\/p>\n

The final buzzer sounded 7-4 in favour of Gen\u00e8ve, who would close the series 12-4 on aggregate. The win punches the Quarter-Finals card for the maroon jerseys, while Lausanne’s 2024\/25 CHL journey comes to an end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reigning CHL Champions\u00a0Gen\u00e8ve-Servette\u00a0had the comfort of a five-goal buffer and never lost the edge in their 7-4 win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6341,94,2547,6339,5036,4131,4130,6340],"class_list":{"0":"post-8114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lausanne","8":"tag-geneve-servette","9":"tag-lausanne","10":"tag-lausanne-hc","11":"tag-playoffs","12":"tag-recap","13":"tag-return-game","14":"tag-round-of-16","15":"tag-season-2024-25"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114","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=8114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}