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“Geoff Ward is a regular customer of my establishment,” says Bruno Kaltenbacher, a former LHC and Fribourg-Gottéron player. At the end of his first season in Lausanne, he told me he was coming back to Boston and I told him that Shania Twain, a good friend, was going to sing there. Geoff Ward and his wife are very fans of her. So I arranged the tickets for this concert."

On the spot, the Ward family met the singer and her husband. A link was soon created between Geoff Ward and Shania Twain. It has to be said that they are of the same generation, that they both come from Ontario and that they love ice hockey.

A raclette as a pre-match ritual

A year later, when the 2024 playoffs began, the artist with billions of streams on Spotify and the millions of albums sold came to a game. "She fell in love with this LHC," says Kaltenbacher.

She came back every time. “We even had a little ritual the day before the playoff matches last year, we were going to eat a raclette at her house with Geoff Ward,” he adds. Fabrice Jaton, journalist at the RTS, and Michel Marguerat, founder and president of the Pully Live Festival, were also present.

In North America for a series of shows, Shania Twain can no longer be physically present at the Vaudoise Arena for the play-offs, but she follows the new epic of Lausanne HC from a distance.