The Ajoulote red lantern lost heavily 5-0 on Saturday evening in Rapperswil for its last game of the championship.
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Steven Macquat (right) and his teammates ended their difficult season in the elite with another slap.
For its final appearance of the season in the National League, HC Ajoie was sharply beaten on Saturday evening in Rapperswil with the final score of 5-0. After standing up to their opponent during the initial period, the Jurassians collapsed in the next, conceding no less than four goals in the space of 20 minutes, including two in 19 seconds apart. In five confrontations, they did not manage to scratch even a point from the Lakers of Stefan Hedlund, for whom the appointments once morest the newly promoted will have allowed them to consolidate their position in the leading quartet.
By offering a success to their public on Friday evening once morest Langnau (2-1), the Porrentruy hockey players accomplished their ultimate mission of the year. On the ice of “Rappi”, we quickly felt that their strength would run out. The leaders have more or less all failed at some point. The goalkeeper Tim Wolf included, not free from any reproach on the opening of the score of Sataric (14e) or on Forrer’s 5-0 fall before the second siren. As for Phil-Michaël Devos, his skating kicks appeared heavy from the middle of the match. The topscorer, like his two linemates, finished the match with a -3 record.
But it would be wrong to impute this 42e failure of the exercise, the 15e in a row outside, at the last rampart of Zurich or the Quebec striker of Porrentruy. Because it is indeed the whole ajoulote formation that has run out of juice. Winning the bet twice in a row, that was simply not in his strings this season. Its final average of 0.51 points per game turns out to be the weakest performance achieved by an elite team in the last fifteen years.
