Davos in lead at halfway point

Davos players (in blue) clash with Lugano's Jan Cadieux during Tuesday's match Keystone

Davos have held on to their position at the top of the ice hockey table at the season's halfway point after a night of sporting action on the ice.

Davos managed to keep their number one position after drawing with Lugano 1-1. The Ticinese team is now trailing the leader by two points with a game in hand.

Lugano dominated the start of the match although Davos were the first to score with Josef Marha slamming one into the back of the net in the 31st minute of the second session. Davos’s joy was shortlived though with Lugano’s Jean-Jacques Aeschlimann equalising nine minutes later.

In what was the surprise result of the evening, bottom of the table Chur beat third placed Ambri 5:2, dashing Ambri’s hopes of knocking Davos off top spot. Despite Chur’s convincing performance, the victory was not enough to push them up the table. Instead the Graubünden-based team was left languishing at the bottom in 12th place.

Bern beat Langnau

The boys from the capital, Bern, beat Langnau 4:2 in front of a 13,000 strong crowd in Allemand, leaving their fifth position in the table unchanged. Langnau failed to climb up the table and are still in 11th position with the threat of relegation looming.

Zug and Kloten drew 2:2 leaving their positions unchanged at fourth and tenth place respectively.

The reigning champions, the Zurich Lions, were left with little to roar about after losing to Rapperswil-Jona 5:7. The feline team slid one place down the table to seventh position. Despite their win Rapperswil-Jona failed to change their standing in the table and are still in ninth place just below the cut-off line for relegation playouts.

The French-speaking showdown between Fribourg and Lausanne ended with a 5-3 win to Fribourg, meaning that the victorious side jumped up two places in the league table to sixth position while the Vaud-side slipped one place to eighth position.

swissinfo with agencies