Genève-Servette Hockey Club win Spengler Cup 2013

Kevin Romy scored a goal and added an assist helping his team reach the final goal of their quest - winning the 2013 Spengler Cup in Davos.

The lone unbeaten team kept their record until the end and shot for the skies as they leave Davos with glory.

Servette were off to a great start scoring a pair in the first two periods which gave them a lift for the rest of the game. Juraj Simek got the game's first goal as he fired on the powreplay picking up a rebound. Dennis Hollenstein doubles on the assist from Romy three minutes later.

Servette continued in the sam manner in the second period as Lennart Petrell at 23:48 and Kevin Romy at 36:21 give a huge lead to the Swiss side. Still, Oleg Saprykin is able to get the answer before the break and get some interest into the game. Servette had the championship within their grasp building a huge lead, but CSKA wouldn't agree during the final period.

Alexander Frolov opens the scoring in the third period for CSKA with a magnificent solo effort in the slot, he took over the puck and deked out two defencemen and the goalie to slide the puck easily into the empty net and cut the lead to half.

CSKA put enormous pressure during that final period and therefore outshot Servette 22-5 in the last period and 44-36 overall.

Servette were good on defence and kept tight covering of the CSKA forwards, not allowing a lot of space inside or backward passes into the slot. They had some breaks during that period of play especially when Pistoni took the puck over the right and stretched to the left, but missed Stana's goal wide to the right. Had he scored, it could have given them a huge lift.

Though then at 56:31 Nikita Zaitsev jumps in from the blue and fires a one-timed blast from the slot as Alexander Frolov got the assist from behind the net. And there you have a close game.

CSKA spent the final two minutes of the game entirely inside Servette's zone firing from all spots, but nothing could go through.

Kaspars Daugavins puts the game to an end as he scores the emtpy-netter exactly a minute before the end. Stana was pulled half a minute earlier. CSKA tried to pull him once again and took the timeout, but nothing helped.

Geneve Servette were the best team in the tournament overall and deservedly took the win.

Team Roster

Tobias Stephan, Robert Mayer, Garrett Stafford, Jonathan Mercier, Markus Nordlund, Eliot Antonietti, Christian Marti, Daniel Vukovic, Goran Bezina, Juraj Simek, Matthew Lombardi, Roland Gerber, Arnaud Jacquement, Inti Pestoni, John Fritsche, Christopher Rivera, Lennart Petrell, Kaspars Daugavins, Alexandre Picard, Kevin Romy, Cody Almond, Denis Hollenstein

Coach - Chris McSorley

Assistant Coach - Louis Matte

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