- The Mulhouse Scorpions ice hockey team was excluded from the Magnus League play-off by the hockey federation on Friday.
- The Mulhousians were indeed in the administrative impossibility of organizing match 6 against the Gothics of Amiens.
- An agreement was finally reached and the match will be played behind closed doors on Tuesday in Cergy-Pontoise (Val-d'Oise).
Eliminated Saturday, reinstated Sunday. The Mulhouse Scorpions ice hockey team will be able to poke the ice again. Discarded from the championship under the pretext of the coronavirus epidemic which affects the Haut-Rhin and the health measures imposed, the Scorpions are finally authorized to resume the play-off of the Magnus League. They will play the quarter-final against the Amiens Gothics on Tuesday in Cergy-Pontoise (Val d'Oise) and possibly play a seventh match the next day.
As a reminder, the Scorpions had taken a real blow on Saturday, banned from playing the sixth game in the series. The meeting was canceled by the French Ice Hockey Federation because of the coronavirus epidemic that affects the Haut-Rhin and "the administrative impossibility of organizing the match". The question then arose of postponing the match or dismissing the Scorpions. It was this choice that had been made, the Mulhouse team not being authorized to organize a meeting in its skating rink, while the prefect of the Somme prohibited, at the same time, the coming of the Mulhouse team to Amiens ...
The federation explains having taken "the decision to freeze the series with the score acquired on the ground", which effectively eliminated the Scorpions, led 3-2. "A painful but responsible decision to make," she explains in a very detailed press release.
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Back on the ice
“The only way out, explains the federation, was to obtain the agreement of a prefecture to organize the meeting and not be refused as in Mulhouse and Amiens. A solution was therefore found and the federation relaunched Mulhouse in the race which accepted the proposal. Game 6 of the series will be played behind closed doors in Cergy on Tuesday. Ice rink which will host a match 7 if necessary, Wednesday, under the same conditions.
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