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Les Chaux-de-Fonniers remain third in the Swiss League but see the Bernese come back. The Valaisans are still trying to grab sixth place.
Langenthal scored the winning goal after 17 seconds in overtime.
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HC La Chaux-de-Fonds lost the match at the top of the Swiss League evening on Tuesday. Third in the standings and guaranteed to participate at least in the pre-play-off, the Chaux-de-Fonniers lost on the ice of fifth, Langenthal 5-4 ap (0-2 2-0 2-2).
Thierry Paterlini’s men had however started the game well by scoring twice in the first period thanks to David Eugster (2nd) and Arnaud Jaquet (8th). But these good intentions were thwarted by the Bernese who returned to two everywhere at the dawn of the third third.
A final period where the Bees took the advantage twice (42nd and 49th), but without managing to keep it. In overtime, Kummer (61st) gave two points to Langenthal. With this defeat, the HCC loses ground on second-placed Olten, who won in Ticino against the Rockets 6-3.
Sierre: what a comeback
For its part, Sierre won in Winterthur 5-3 (0-2 4-1 1-0) and could hope for a moment to get closer to Visp, sixth, but the Haut-Valaisans finally won against Zug Academy 3-2.
Led 1-3 at halftime, the Sierrois came back thanks to two successes from Arnaud Montandon (34th and 38th). Then Éric Castonguay (39th) and Guillaume Maillard (49th) gave victory to the players of Dany Gelinas.