Brunner with anger speech because of useless TV pictures

Offside or not? Controversial 2: 1 of the ZSC counts after long discussions(01:59)

Justin Azevedo’s Game Winner on Sunday night sparks controversy. Was the hit preceded by an offside or not? The linesmen smash the Bieler Challenge. “Inconclusive” is the verdict. You cannot clarify the situation due to the insufficient TV pictures. That’s why the decision remains on the ice, which counts 2:1 and the ZSC wins.

“The goal, I think we all agree, that was probably a goal,” Biel striker Damien Brunner begins his angry speech after the match in a TV interview with MySports. “We had Corona, the entire league cried because there was no money, the players earned too much. Now we’re here and we’ve had a number of managerial changes (there were five, editor’s note) this season. I don’t know if any team still has six foreigners in their squad or if there are already seven, eight, nine. And not a single stadium manages to have a f***** camera on the blue line.”

The inadequate TV pictures are by no means the first time that there have been sweeping blows in Swiss ice hockey. “I’ll just say one thing: It’s a damn amateur league,” Gottéron trainer Christian Dubé was quoted by Frank Stettler from the “Freiburger Nachrichten” on Twitter in early October, after Friborg also had to bite the sour Offside Challenge apple.

Brunner, who managed to make it 1-1 against ZSC: “Today it took another five minutes to find a frame that shows the puck was over the blue line. It is ridiculous. Something like that just doesn’t work.” Once in the flow of words, the 36-year-old also lets off steam regarding the interpretation of the goalkeeper handicap rule: “This **** goal area rule that we have this year. I don’t know how many goals there have been in the National League where a hockey fan has to get his head in there because the goal didn’t count. I just do not understand.” (yup)