Switzerland, Nico suffer heartbreak, win silver at IIHF world’s

Team Switzerland and Nico won the silver medal at the IIHF World Championship in Prague and Ostrava. After a great knockout phase with wins over Germany (3-1) and Canada (3-2 SO), the Swiss fell to the Czech Republic by a score of 0-2 in yesterday’s final.

The hosts thereby successfully avenged their defeat to Switzerland in preliminary round action, while the Swiss came within a whisker of the title for the third time in the last eleven years. Understandably, Nico and his teammates were terribly disappointed after the Czechs secured their 13^th world championship with an empty netter with 19 seconds left.

Individually, Nico scored a total of eleven points (6 goals, 5 assists) over the course of the tournament while winning 54.60% of his face-offs. He finished the tournament with a plus-6 rating and was named one of the three tournament All-Stars for the Swiss alongside Roman Josi and Kevin Fiala.