National League (ice hockey) 2020/21

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The 2020/21 season was the fourth regular event after the renaming of the former Swiss National League A to the National League , the top ice hockey division in Switzerland . The regular season consisted of 52 games and subsequent playoffs or pre-playoffs.

mode

The twelve teams played two double rounds of 22 games each. There were also six additional encounters per team against three opponents, which were based on a regional division (east: HC Ambrì-Piotta, HC Lugano, HC Davos, SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers, center: EHC Biel, SCL Tigers, EV Zug, ZSC Lions , West: Genève-Servette HC, Lausanne HC, HC Friborg-Gottéron, SC Bern). In addition, two solidarity games were played this season; In total, each team should play 52 qualifying games.

The best six teams qualified directly for the playoffs. The teams in places seven to ten contested the pre-playoffs. It was played in the best-of-three between the teams in places 7 and 10 or 8 and 9 for the remaining two places in the playoffs. Then these eight teams determined the Swiss champions in the knockout system . The playoff quarter-finals were played in best-of-seven mode , half-finals and final in best-of-five mode.

The last two teams had the end of the season. This season there was no relegation to the Swiss League . Including the newcomer HC Ajoie , the next season will be played with 13 teams.

Attendees

HC Ambrì-Piotta EHC Biel SC Bern HC Davos Friborg-Gottéron Genève-Servette HC HC Lugano SCL Tigers Lausanne HC ZSC Lions SCRJ Lakers EV train

The NL clubs 2020/21

In the 2020/21 season, the same twelve teams were represented as in the previous season.

	team	Location	Ice rink	capacity
	HC Ambrì-Piotta	Ambrì	Pista la Valascia	6,500
	SC Bern	Bern	PostFinance Arena	17.131
	EHC Biel	Biel / Bienne	Tissot Arena	6,521
	HC Davos	Davos	Vaillant Arena	7,080
	Friborg-Gottéron	Freiburg	BCF arena	8,934
	Genève-Servette HC	Geneva	Les Vernets	7,285
	SCL Tigers	Langnau	Ilfishalle	6,000
	Lausanne HC	Lausanne	vaudoise aréna	9,600
	HC Lugano	Lugano	Cornèr Arena	7,800
	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	Rapperswil-Jona	St. Galler Kantonalbank Arena	6,100
	EV train	train	Bossard Arena	7,200
	ZSC Lions	Zurich	Hallenstadion	11,200

qualification

table

The league meeting decided on March 9th that the qualification definitely had to end on April 5th. Since both EHC Biel and SC Bern had to be in quarantine shortly before the end of qualification, not all teams were able to contest 52 rounds. As a result, the points per game were counted instead of the absolute points.

Explanations: Playoff qualification , pre-playoff qualification , end of season (no relegation 2020/21)

rank	team	Sp	S.	SNV	SNP	NNP	NNV	N	Gates	Pt	Pt / col
1.	EV train	52	33	5	2	3	3	6th	197: 128	119	2,288
2.	HC Lugano	52	24	8th	1	0	2	17th	160: 137	92	1,769
3.	HC Friborg-Gottéron	51	26	2	2	1	3	17th	159: 151	90	1,745
4th	Lausanne HC	51	23	4th	3	2	4th	15th	159: 125	89	1,745
5.	ZSC Lions	52	24	4th	2	3	3	16	170: 143	90	1,731
6th	Genève-Servette HC	50	22nd	4th	3	2	2	17th	167: 129	84	1,680
7th	EHC Biel	48	20th	4th	2	1	5	16	149: 137	78	1,625
8th.	HC Davos	51	20th	3	2	1	3	22nd	174: 177	74	1,451
9.	SC Bern	48	15th	2	1	3	2	25th	129: 156	56	1.166
10.	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	50	15th	2	1	3	2	27	141: 180	56	1,120
11.	HC Ambrì-Piotta	51	12th	2	1	2	6th	28	107: 158	50	0.980
12th	SCL Tigers	52	8th	1	1	0	6th	36	107: 198	34	0.654

Top scorer

player	team	Sp	T	V.	P	SM	+/-
Jan Kovář	EV train	52	16	47	63	58	+24
Linus Omark	Genève-Servette HC	49	22nd	39	61	55	+ 08
Sven Andrighetto	ZSC Lions	52	27	28	55	18th	+10
Enzo Corvi	HC Davos	44	15th	37	52	16	000
Roman Červenka	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	49	16	35	51	63	- 01
Killian Mottet	HC Friborg-Gottéron	50	23	25th	48	34	- 01
Mark Arcobello	HC Lugano	52	13th	35	48	58	+12
Daniel Winnik	Genève-Servette HC	49	15th	31	46	48	+ 08
Christopher DiDomenico	HC Friborg-Gottéron	48	15th	31	46	48	- 05th
Dario Simion	EV train	50	24	21	45	06th	+24

Best goalkeeper

Bold: best value ( legend for goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draw or overtime or shootout defeat; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

player	team	Sp	Min	S.	N	GT	GTS	SaT	SVS	Sv%	SO
Tobias Stephan	Lausanne HC	29	1718: 42	14th	11	65	2.27	903	838	92.80	4th
Niklas Schlegel	HC Lugano	42	2358: 38	26	14th	92	2.34	1269	1177	92.75	6th
Gauthier Descloux	Genève-Servette HC	42	2526: 10	23	13th	100	2.38	1373	1273	92.72	5
Leonardo Genoni	EV train	38	2301: 33	28	7th	93	2.42	1243	1150	92.52	2
Luca Boltshauser	Lausanne HC	23	1359: 29	13th	7th	54	2.38	674	620	91.99	1
Ludovic Waeber	ZSC Lions	37	2203: 42	24	11	88	2.40	1078	990	91.84	4th
Reto Berra	HC Friborg-Gottéron	45	2651: 46	25th	16	127	2.87	1498	1371	91.52	0
Joren van Pottelberghe	EHC Biel	40	2365: 37	22nd	15th	98	2.49	1142	1044	91.42	2
Melvin Nyffeler	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	29	1886: 35	10	16	80	2.97	883	803	90.94	1
Ivars Punnenovs	SCL Tigers	38	2165: 56	7th	29	122	3.38	1329	1207	90.82	2
Damiano Ciaccio	HC Ambrì-Piotta	33	1734: 03	8th	20th	89	3.08	965	876	90.78	2
Sandro Aeschlimann	HC Davos	29	1614: 25	16	11	85	3.16	913	828	90.69	1
Philip Wüthrich	SC Bern	21	1245: 09	7th	11	67	3.23	825	746	90.62	0
Tomi Karhunen	SC Bern	28	1636: 23	10	16	79	2.90	825	746	90.42	2
Robert Mayer	HC Davos	26	1423: 37	7th	13th	80	3.35	824	744	90.29	1
Noël Bader	SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	24	1254: 16	6th	12th	80	3.83	711	631	88.75	0

Playoffs

Playoff tree

Pre-playoffs

Quarter finals

Semifinals

final

8th

HC Davos

1

1

EV train

4th

9

SC Bern

2

Q2

SC Bern

2

1

EV train

3

Q1

SCRJ Lakers

1

7th

EHC Biel

0

2

HC Lugano

1

10

SCRJ Lakers

2

Q1

SCRJ Lakers

4th

(The teams will be re-seeded after the quarter-finals. The better seeded team has home rights.)

1

EV train

3

6th

Genève-Servette HC

0

3

HC Friborg-Gottéron

1

6th

Genève-Servette HC

4th

5

ZSC Lions

0

6th

Genève-Servette HC

3

4th

Lausanne HC

2

5

ZSC Lions

4th

Pre-playoffs

	series	1	2	3	[Q]
HC Davos - SC Bern	1: 2	3: 4 a.d.	3-0	0: 3	[2: 2]
EHC Biel - SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	0: 2	1: 2 a.d.	1: 3	-	[3: 0]

Quarter finals

	series	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	[Q]
EV Zug - SC Bern	4: 2	4: 2	2: 6	3-0	2: 6	5: 2	1-0	-	[5: 1]
HC Lugano - SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	1: 4	6: 2	1: 4	2: 3 a.d.	1: 3	3: 4 a.d.	-	-	[3: 3]
HC Friborg-Gottéron - Genève-Servette HC	1: 4	2: 1	1: 3	3: 8	0: 4	0: 5	-	-	[2: 4]
Lausanne HC - ZSC Lions	2: 4	3: 2 a.d.	0: 5	0: 3	1: 3	5: 2	0: 3	-	[2: 2]

Semi-final

	series	1	2	3	4th	5	[Q]
EV Zug - SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers	3: 1	6: 1	4: 2	1: 2	6: 3	-	[4: 0]
ZSC Lions - Genève-Servette HC	0: 3	1: 2	1: 4	1: 4	-	-	[1: 3]

Final

3.5.2021 8:00 p.m.

EV Zug Grégory Hofmann (20:21)

1: 0 (0: 0, 1: 0, 0: 0) Match report as of: 1: 0

Genève-Servette HC

Bossard Arena , Zug spectators: 50

5.5.2021 7:00 p.m.

Genève-Servette HC Noah Rod (38:02)

1: 2 (0: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1) Match report as of: 0: 2

EV Zug Dario Simion (32:06) Dario Simion (43:19)

Les Vernets , Geneva Spectators: 50

7.5.2021 8:00 p.m.

EV Zug Grégory Hofmann (23:45) Grégory Hofmann (48:46) Carl Klingberg (49:04) Yannick-Lennart Albrecht (56:57) Dario Simion (59:20)

5: 1 (0: 0, 1: 1, 4: 0) Match report as of: 3: 0

Genève-Servette HC Daniel Winnik (38:33)

Bossard Arena , Zug spectators: 50

Master team of EV Zug

Swiss champions EV Zug

Goalkeepers: Leonardo Genoni , Luca Hollenstein Defenders: Santeri Alatalo , Claudio Cadonau , Raphael Diaz , Tobias Geisser , Nico Gross , Dominik Schlumpf , Livio Stadler , Dario Wüthrich , Jesse Zgraggen Attackers: Justin Abdelkader , Yannick-Lennart Albrecht , Jérôme Bachofner , Grégory Hofmann , Carl Klingberg , Jan Kovar , Livio Langenegger , Sven Leuenberger , Lino Martschini , Sven Senteler , Nick Shore , Dario Simion , Erik Thorell , Calvin Thürkauf , Yannick Zehnder Head coach: Dan Tangnes  Assistant coach: Josh Holden , Klas Östman

Web links

• National League - Official Website. Swiss Ice Hockey Federation , accessed July 19, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Swiss Ice Hockey Federation: Mode and protective measures for the playoffs 2020/21. March 9, 2021, accessed April 4, 2021 . 
2. ^ Swiss Ice Hockey Federation: game Lausanne - Biel canceled; NL ranking is evaluated according to the point quotient. March 27, 2021, accessed April 4, 2021 .