Team Switzerland sends a message to Team Canada before Olympic matchup
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Following their own dominant victory over France in yesterday's round of preliminary games, Switzerland expects to give Canada everything they can handle.
Switzerland is looking to “poke the bear” today against Canada. They might get more than they bargained for with that wish.
Switzerland looks to play spoiler
We want to poke the bear. We know Canada is going to be the heavy favorites, but we know we don’t have to be scared of being out there
- Nino Niederreiter
- Nino Niederreiter
It's not hard to get up for a game against Team Canada when you're the underdog, more so when Switzerland just got done beating up on France 4-0 the day before.
I feel like we just have to go out there and try our best, compete and believe…believe that we’re a good team,” said Switzerland's Hischier. “I know everybody is excited for it. I trust these guys completely in the locker room. We’ve got a great group of guys and we know what to do. It’s just about trying to perform.”
Much of Switzerland's confidence starts from its goaltending. Leonardo Genoni made 27 saves for the shutout against France.
He also has tons of international experience. At the 2025 World Championships, Genoni won the MVP award and has led Switzerland to back-to-back silver medals at the Worlds.
In that MVP performance Leonardo went 5-0-2 with a 0.99 GAA, .953 SV%, and four shutouts in seven games.
“Confident and very sure that he does not get the credit that he deserves," said JJ Moser, "just because he never played in the NHL. But on the international level, he has been one of the best goalies over the last decade, for sure, and he showed that today."
Canada has won 14 of its last 16 best-on-best games and will look to make it 15 wins when they faceoff against Switzerland today.
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