Latvian goalkeeper Ivars Punnenovs saved 34 shots in the Swiss Hockey Premier League (NL) game on Thursday, but did not save the “Lausanne” team represented by him and forward Ronald Ķeniņš from losing.
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“Lausanne” lost to the hockey players of “Biel-Bienne” with a score of 2:4 (1:1, 1:2, 0:1) at home.
In this season, the Latvian goalkeeper averaged 2.77 goals in 22 matches and saved 91.6% of shots, ranking among the ten best goalkeepers in the league in this statistic.
Kēniņš was on the court for 12 minutes and 49 minutes on Thursday, of which two minutes and 15 seconds he played in the minority, and recorded one shot on goal, two blocked shots and two lost shots, ending the match with a neutral efficiency ratio.
Meanwhile, Oskar Lapinski’s Langnava “Tigers” recognized the superiority of the “Bern” unit with a score of 3:5 (2:0, 0:2, 1:3).
Lapinski was on the ice for 13 minutes and 13 seconds, of which he played a minute and 17 seconds in the majority, and stood out with one shot on goal and one blocked shot, accumulating a neutral efficiency ratio.
Geneva “Servette” represented by forward Denis Smirnova and defender Sanda Smon lost to “Zug” with the result 2:4 (0:0, 1:1, 1:3) in the home game.
Smons played for 5 minutes and 43 seconds, during which he shot at the goal once and blocked a shot, but Smirnovs, although he was in the match report, did not go to the field.
In the tournament table, the leading team is “Servette”, which has won 56 points in 26 matches, “Tigers” is in 11th place with 31 points in 26 games, and “Lausanne” is one position lower with 31 points in 27 games.
In the previous season, the “Zug” hockey players won the NL for the second time in a row, defeating the Zurich “Lions” 4-3 in the final.
