What a MARCH 2016 Edition…. We brilliant playing conditions
all weekend. From a organization point of view great referee work.
All kind of weather conditions. We had Rain, Snow and Sunshine.
But the most important point we saw a lot of smiling faces around
the HockeyArena Wolfurt.
The Tournament saw from the beginning a small gap between the top four sides of Augsburg, Biel, Duisburg, Lugano
and the rest of the field.
Therefore it was not a big surprise that those four teams went up into the top group and had at least there quarterfinal
ticket safe on early Saturday.
The top group was won by Bienne Seelanders. But it was all weekend not a smooth working Bienne Team. In the past
there was always everything working like a swiss clock. This time they where a bit unlucky on some occasions and did
not get all chances on there scoreboard when it was needed.
From the other four teams we saw the Hometeam of Wolfurt and Novaggio going through into the Quarterfinals.
The Quarterfinals where a Matchup between the Swiss National League B (Wolfurt and Novaggio) and the
German Bundesliga. Unfortunately the Bundesliga took both games to earn a Matchup with the
Swiss National League A (Lugano and Biel)
The Semifinals saw to fully different games.
Duisburg and Bienne was a very close game with the better start of the Seelanders. But the could not get on the scoresheet. Duisburg
ended the game seconds before the End with a nice wrist shot to take a final spot.
The other Matchup between Sayaluca and Augsburg was not realy close in the End. Augsburg taking a comfortably win.
So the MARCH 2016 was a full in german hands. Ausgsburg startet well, lead by there Topsniper Lukas Fettinger and
getting up 3:1. The Defense looked safe with players like Simon Arzt and Nikolai Wagner. But somehow Duisburg managed
the sneak in two goals to go into the decisive Penalty Shootout.
It was up to the Duisburg Captain Paul Fiedler to win this game with the last penalty shot for Duisburg. And he did
it in great fashion.
So the Duisburg Ducks could win the MARCH Trophy for there second time after 2013.
The Wolfurt Walkers are happy that from our point we could make the March Slogan „where the best compete“ work.
The Teams did not play as if it was a pre-season tournament. We saw that the MARCH has become a Name in
European Skaterhockey and we will work further to develop this event.
Last but not least. We think we have put our Sport on the next level. Maybe we are wrong. But we still believe in it.
The Livestream will be the Future of our sports. We do have a great sport. Why not show it on the internet and television.
Therefore we have put a lot of effort into this all weekend.
We hope it was worth it and all viewers had a great time in watching the March 2016 out of one of the fastest Pitches
in Europe and arguably one of the nicest looking Hockeyrinks in the World 🙂
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It will be worth it……
