Doesn’t work well for me when I watch the Canada game that starts at 1:00.
So what i have heard an seen in the highlights it seems that the germans just played better the first two periods. The very ready and the swiss weren’t so they got the lead and didn’t let switzerland catch up when they woke up. We can talk a lot about what bad choices were made and so on but in the and the germans just played better.
The first two periods were Germans dominating positional play with an occasional rush chance for Switzerland on the counterattack. Germany played very diligently with great effort, the biggest knock probably being that despite carrying the play they didn't really create much after the first two goals.
They also didn't create much to score their goals. Both goals 1 and 2 they scored after horrible Swiss giveaways. Especially the goal after the Fahrni giveaway was pretty much a gifted shoot in. To score the other goal at least they had to execute a zone entry.
I probably can't tell you more than you already know. I do watch some NL here and then but lately, besides playoffs of course, it's been more SL than NL. Sadly, Delémont didn't get much icetime for Biel. A bit less than 9mins per game I think it was last season. Nevertheless, it's easy to see he's progressing nicely now after a few disappointing years. Hasn't scored much at pro level but you can see the upside is there and he really seems to have cleaned up his defensive game. I don't know what happened in NA but I don't think the OHL adventure has been particularly helpful for his career. And yeah, I could see him become an NL top pairing guy or an international player. He was once seen as the next big thing, then as a potential bust. The truth could be somewhere in the middle. He's certainly the best defender on that team with Meier and Bichsel absent.
