In the eighth straight CHL win by a Swiss team, Fribourg-Gotteron shut out Red Bull Munich 3-0 on home ice. Read more in Gamecentre. 

In Group F's first game, Fribourg-Gotteron got a goal and an assist from Roman Cervenka and a 33-save shutout from Benjamin Conz to beat Red Bull Munich 3-0 on home ice.

"Now we have to go on this way to reach our goal, which means we want to win this group and go on to the CHL playoffs," said former NHL and KHL winger Roman Cervenka. "For me personally, tonight's game was okay. It's still early in the season and I'm starting to feel better and better. At the same time, my linemates and I can also improve our play together and I'm looking forward to what's still to come."

Flavio Schmutz opened the scoring in the 8th minute, one-timing a shot from right in front that David Leggio had no chance on. Munich pressed really hard for the equalizer in the first half of the second period but Conz made several big saves, especially on a penalty kill. Then just past the game's midpoint, Cervenka made a perfect pass to Killian Moffatt, who made it 2-0.

"The second goal was very important and gave us some more air after being under huge pressure, especially during the penalty kill when Munich had several good chances," said Fribourg coach Gerd Zenhausern.

Munich fired 15 shots at Conz in the third period, but the Swiss keeper turned them all away. Cervenka iced the game with an empty-net goal in the late going. 

“It was a hard game, definitely a tight one,” said Fribourg centre Marc-Antoine Pouliot. “They have a great team and we both had a lot of chances but our goalie Conz had a great game. Munich have a lot of big North American players - I know a lot of them that I used to play against. They have a tough team and it's not going to be easy going into Munich in a couple of weeks.”

"Fribourg put on big pressure in the first period. We were a little surprised by that and it took some time for us to find our way in this game," said Munich captain Michael Wolf. "The further the game went on the better we were. We also created some good chances but, unfortunately, we didn't capitalize on them, but we improved the level of our game during the 60 minutes, and that's what we have to take on from this game for the next ones."