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  • The Mulhouse Scorpions saw game 6 of the playoff quarter-finals canceled due to coronavirus. Result ? The Alsatian hockey players are eliminated and Amiens qualified.
  • The French Ice Hockey Federation made this decision. "The Management Office had to draw the consequences notably from the impossibility for the club of Mulhouse to receive meetings in its ice rink, from the refusal of the prefecture of the Somme to authorize the displacement of the team from Mulhouse to Amiens", is it justified in a press release.
  • The President of the Scorpions has announced his desire to "study the possible remedies".

The Mulhouse Scorpions season has officially ended since Saturday. Because of a defeat? Elimination? None of that. Since the French Ice Hockey Federation (FFHG) decided to cancel match 6 of the play-off quarter-final against Amiens, due to the coronavirus.

The meeting, scheduled for Friday evening, was first suspended by the prefect of Haut-Rhin, who banned gatherings of more than 50 people in the department due to the health emergency. The FFHG had proposed to contest the game in Amiens but the Somme prefecture did not grant authorization.

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“Despite the good will of the two clubs and the perseverance of the competent bodies of the FFHG, the Board of Directors had to draw the consequences, in particular of the impossibility for the club of Mulhouse to receive meetings in its ice rink, of the refusal of the prefecture of the sum of authorizing the displacement of the team from Mulhouse to Amiens, "writes the Federation in its press release. “The Bureau noted the material impossibility of resolving this exceptional and urgent situation other than by freezing the scores acquired as the series went. "

"An incredible masquerade and injustice"

As a result, Amiens, who led 3-2 in the series, qualified for the semi-finals and will face Grenoble, while Rouen and Angers will face each other.

“I have a lot of pain and revolt for our players and our staff whose remarkable season thus ends with an incredible masquerade and injustice! We are going to study the possible remedies ”, announced on Twitter the president of the Scorpions Mulhouse, Mark Swenson.

The FFHG disqualifies the @ScorpionsMulho. I have a lot of pain and revolt for our players and our staff whose remarkable season thus ends with an incredible masquerade and injustice! We will study the possible remedies. #PasSansLesScorpions pic.twitter.com/YbgfFSheAH

- MDS (@MDSwenson) March 7, 2020

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