HCD versus EVZ is a series that has many stories to tell even before the first puck drop. The two teams already met in the quarter-finals last season. Back then as qualifying fourth vs. qualifying fifth. What was supposed to be a close series ended in a slap in the face for the Zug team: HCD won the series 4-0. So EVZ still has a score to settle.
However, the omens are somewhat different a year later. Davos finished the qualifiers in a commanding first place with 117 points and go into the quarter-final series as clear favourites. Zug, on the other hand, can look back on a difficult regular season in which they even had to take a diversion via the play-in series.
A look at the four head-to-head meetings so far this season: EVZ lost both of their away games in the Landwasser Valley by a clear margin (1:5 and 1:4). It was a different story in the home games. Both times, the EVZ-HCD affair in the OYM hall went to penalties. Once the Zug team prevailed, once the Davos team.
The best thing about the most beautiful season in ice hockey: in the playoffs, everything starts from scratch again. Curtain up for Game 1 in the zondacrypto-Arena in Davos. It starts at 8 pm. With our live ticker, you’ll be right up close from the first face-off.
