A Story of two Brothers // It's Crunch Time

[Daniel Janser 2,213]

Swiss Central Gazzette

 

As many of our loyal readers know, the playoffs in the Junior Showcase Tournament has begun.

 

The Brigade qualified in the third place and faced the Royals in four games at time this article is written.

 

When the Brigade recovered from their losing streak in the last few games, coaching staff and players alike were confident to stand a chance against their aristocratic rivals.

 

We summarized the games for you:

 

Game 1: Brigade-Royals 4-6

 

The start in the series for the Brigade was nothing short of a desaster. After 11:22 played the Brigade was down 0-4. They pulled one back before the end of the period, but the damage was done and the Royals managed to husband the comfortable lead. 

 

Our hopeful Swiss talents contributed one assist each, and Marcel (once again) led his team in hits (4), shots blocked (4) and time on ice (35:35). The Brigade's powerplay was 1/5 while the Royals had 1/2.

 

Towbaker had an astonishing 15 shot attempts, but only scored once.

 

Matt Avens (3g/1a) scored a hat-trick and was first star of the night, while Biggie Cheese (1g/3a) and Karjalainen (1g/1a) were 2nd and third star. The goalies both showed a better than average performance with Hroch showing a .889 und Des Aves a whopping .934 save percentage.

 

Game 2: Brigade-Royals 3-7

 

As in the first match, the Brigade fell behind (this time 0-3) before they started to get on the board as well. And again the Royals could just nurse this advantage home, to win the game. 

 

For the second time in a row a hat-trick was scored against the Brigade (this time by CDS Leb).

 

The Brigade had 0/4 powerplay to the Royals' 1/9. At least the penalty killing seemed to have worked in this game.

 

Marcel scored no points but for the upteenth time was first of his team in shots blocked (5) and time on ice (33:12). Daniel scored a goal and an assist. To absulotely no-one's surprise, the Royals claimed all three stars for them. CDS Leb (3g/1a), Biggie Cheese (2g/1a) and Glove Dropper (1/2) were on the podium.

 

Hroch was not in his best form with .857 of the shots saved where Des Aves recorded a .909 save percentage.

 

Game 3: Brigade-Royals 5-3

 

Trailing 2-0 in the series, the Brigade made the first period their own leading 4-1 at the first intermission. Berard, Karjalainen, D. Janser and the Number 26 scored the goals. In the second period the Royals had to unanswered goals, but at 52:18 Towbraker put the nail in the coffin and brought the game home.

 

Both goalies had a very good night with .907 (des Aves) and .932 save percentage respectively.

 

Marcel had 0g/1a, 5 shots blocked and 33:15 minutes played (first of the team each)

Daniel had 1g/1a.

 

Game 4: Brigade-Royals 4-6

 

Unfortunately the momentum shifted again in Royals' favour in the fourth game of the series. It was a hard fought battle with the bitter end for the Brigade.

 

Towbaker (2g/2a) and Marner (1g/3a) claimed 1st and 2nd Star, complemented by Godlander (2g/1a).

 

Hroch had .893 but Des Aves topped him with .918. 

 

The powerplay was adequate (1/2) and none of the Janser Brothers contributed to the score. Marcel once again led his team in hits (4), shots blocked (4) and minutes played (34:17)

 

Having lost the best of five series against Royals, the Brigade will have to face the Warriors in a best of five series for the third place.

 

Marcel (clearly a Lobo fan), has been quoted after the loss: 'Ah, fragg it. With a knife at my throat and cut off hands, I fight the hardest'. We will follow up on that statement and see whether it was only pep talk, or whether the real fight has only began for the younger Janser Brother... 

 

 

[MetalToday 266]

Goes through the game pretty well, explaining Brigade drive to win. On an article about the brothers I think putting more emphasis on the brothers would be important. It seemed to be a dramatic end for Brigade from this article, but I would love to hear about the complete stats for the brothers in this article from this series at least. However I think it was a good job overall 8/10.