Authors of a zero result encouraging to go to Finland, the dragons finally lost, at home, facing Tampere (4-0). But they are the first French hockey club to have reached this level of the competition.
Le Monde
From disappointment, but no regrets. This is what emerges from the quarter-finals back of ice hockey league, dryly lost by the Dragons of Rouen, Tuesday, December 14, facing the Finnish dreadable of Tampere (4-0).
After a heroic go match where they had managed to win the zero (3-3) in Finland, the Rouennais did not succeed in going to the end of the feat in their rink of Lacroix Island, completely filled For this historic moment: no French club had gone so far in the flagship competition of European hockey.
And yet, Fabrice Lhenry players attacked the meeting as they had finished the first leg, a week earlier: without complex. Certainly, the Tampere Tappara dominated the debates but the dragons could count on the goals on a Matija Pintaric, faithful to himself. The Slovenian goalkeeper has released 15 shots on the outcome of a first third dominated by the Finns but during which the dragons have had their luck, especially in numerical superiority.
a second fatal period
The next period will be much less lenient, with a goal of Kyle Platzer, cashed very quickly by the Rouennais in digital inferiority. The implacable Finnish machine can then start and Samuel Salonen gives a more consistent advantage of the Tampere Club, ten times national champion.
In the first leg, the Normans had managed to redo their goals, but this time, the Tappara, tightened by the smell of the final square, withstands without sourcing the few adverse attempts.
In the end of third third time, the Finnish Club will even add two new anecdotal goals – including one by French Charles Bertrand – in a cage left empty by Pintaric to allow the entrance of an additional field player. The Dragons Porter finishes the meeting with 48 stops, against 19 for his opposing counterpart, proof that walking was really too high for Rouen.
The champion of France will now be able to focus 100% on the magnus league to try to win a new title, including the ambitious clubs of Grenoble and Angers. A seventeenth sacred would allow the dragons to find, the next season, the Champions League, and hope to push a little more the limits.
⚡️fin of the match⚡️
They will have given everything, pushed by an exceptional audience, but tonight Tappara was too strong. … https://t.co/2epq7vvpwq