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Corona brakes the Leader EV Zug: the team has to be quarantined for the next seven days
Setback for the leader. Covid-19 takes EV Zug out of service for the third time this season. Two team members tested positive for the corona virus. Four games are postponed.
The empty Bossard Arena in Zug.
Nine wins in a row – The EV Zug is in impressive shape. The leaders still need 15 points from the remaining ten games to break HC Davos’s 113-point record for the 2010/11 season. Zug already has a 22 advantage over the competition. Tonight there would have been a duel with the pursuers ZSC Lions. But he stays with the subjunctive. The record hunt will have to wait for now.
On Thursday night it was learned that the canton’s doctor had ordered that the team, including the staff, be quarantined until next Thursday inclusive. This after two team members tested positive for Covid-19. They both have mild symptoms but are fine. Those players who did not make the trip to the away game against Bern on Tuesday are exempt from quarantine. These are Nick Shore, Grégory Hofmann, Luca Hollenstein, Raphael Diaz, Dario Wüthrich, Calvin Thürkauf and Jesse Zgraggen.
Four EVZ games have been postponed
EVZ’s next four games against the ZSC Lions (March 12), SCL Tigers (March 13), Genève-Servette HC (March 16) and HC Ambri-Piotta (March 18) must be postponed. The schedule is tight. On Tuesday, the league’s management and club representatives decided that the regular season should end on Easter Monday, April 5 at the latest. If at that time not all 52 clubs have played the scheduled qualifying matches, the table will be calculated based on the average number of points per match. The playoff quarterfinals are scheduled to begin on April 13.
For Zug, the stop of the march is a brake. And yet the sporting director can see something positive in the negative report: “Better now than in the playoffs,” says Reto Kläy. “We make the best of the situation” is the motto of the sports director. Kläy can only guess where and how the two were infected. “There is never 100 percent security. The players are working very hard to comply with the protective measures. ”Coach Dan Tangnes, who was infected with the virus in late October and was tied to his bed for days, also has to hang out in his apartment for the next seven days.
“It fits the crazy season when nothing is normal”
, the Norwegian takes it all with the necessary bit of humor. “We have no choice but to keep a cool head.”
It is the third time this season that quarantine has been ordered for most players. After the second isolation, goalkeeper Leonardo Genoni appealed to all players to be sensitive enough when dealing with Corona. “House arrest is a warning shot for everyone,” he warned our newspaper.
Several elite U-20 players are positive
The U-20 elite have also been in quarantine since Wednesday. Several players have tested positive for Covid-19. In recent weeks it has become quiet in the National League regarding positive corona cases. Hygiene and protection measures appear to be working. Negative EVZ players were even able to train during the second quarantine thanks to a sophisticated concept at the OYM Upper Sports Center. Kläy leaves open the question of whether this will be the case again. In any case, Dan Tangnes says: “We will come back strong, that does not worry me.”
