In the SM league on Friday, a round of seven matches. Mikko Manner celebrated his first win at HPK.
21:03•Updated 21:14
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There were seven matches in the ice hockey championship league on Friday evening.
HPK–Kiekko-Espoo 5–2
HPK, which changed its head coach on Monday, got off to a flying start against Kiekko-Espoo, when Eetu Tuulola took the Club into the lead after a few minutes. Espoo’s excellent Canadian reinforcement Peter Quenneville equalized, but Tuulola struck for a repeat of the opening set, now with the upper hand.
In the second round Christopher Bengtsson gave HPK a 3–1 lead.
In the third set Teemu Rautiainen and Samuli Aaltonen already moved HPK to a 5–1 lead. Arvid Degerstedt narrowed down to final numbers 2–5.
Mikko Mannerin in the lead, HPK has now grabbed four points from two matches and climbed to 13th place. Behind are Jukurit, Pelicans and JYP. However, a varying number of matches have been played. Kiekko-Espoo can be found in 11th place.
KalPa–Jukurit 2–1
In the Savo derby, blocking and catching ices were seen in full force. KalPan scored the first goal at the beginning of the second period Jaakko Rissanen by force.
Andreas Okany scored KalPa 2–0 at the beginning of the triple set. In the end, Jukurit was narrowed down, by the way Aleks Haatanen.
Jukurei has six losses out of eight matches, place 14. KalPa is in a tight top group in place four.
KooKoo–Sport 3–2
Kouvola was not surprised for long. Sport, which started its season well, took the lead in 16 seconds by Axel Holmström on the finish line.
However, KooKoo escaped to a 3–1 lead by the middle of the match Matic Török too, Kalle Loponen and Ville Leskinen with hits.
Sport scored in the last minute of the match Martin Hanzlin in the lead, but KooKoo still recorded his first three-point victory. KooKoo is 12th, Sport is sixth. Only the first scoreless match of the season for Sport.
Lock–HIFK 2–3
Lock took the lead at the end of the opening set Jami Krannila on the finish line. The hit was Krannila’s fifth of the season.
In the second set, HIFK struggled past Iiro Pakarinen and Kristian Vesalainen hitting within a minute. In the latter, he caught the assist point Jori Lehteräwho leads the points market (6 matches, 3+9).
Antti Saarela equalized the match in the third period, but in 49.33 HIFK scored the winning goal Aron Kiviharju. 18-year-old defender Kiviharju did not play many matches last season due to injury.
HIFK rose to the top of the league with 15 points. It has five three-point wins from six games. The lock is on the eighth.
Aces–TPS 4–6
In the match between Ässie and TPS, goals were scored at a high pace. The first three goals were scored in less than four minutes.
In the middle of the match, Ässät led 3–2 Eemil Erholtz, Olli Palolan and Peter Tiivolan with goals.
The people from Turku had successfully booked a 21-year-old Buffalo Viljami Marjala and made a hat trick in the previous match Max Lindroth.
TPS hung in there, even though Ässät clearly controlled the game events in the light of the statistics.
In the third set, TPS turned the match in their favor. Lindroth hit twice in the third period, and they also scored Jean-Christophe Beaudin and Otto Salin.
Swedish winger Lindroth has been wild since the start of the season, already scoring seven goals and two hat-tricks. In the points market, Lindroth is second (7+3) and second in the goals market. Last season, he scored two goals for Frölunda.
Ässät produced 1.6 goals with six hits and rose to fifth in the series. Aces are on the ninth.
Tappara–Kärpät
The match in Tampere started about an hour later than others, because it was the celebration first Jukka Peltolaa. The Tappara legend became the seventh player whose number reached the ceiling among other Tappara greats.
The legs of the Tapparat players who followed the ceremonies were not in good shape, because the match started right away Petteri Puhakka struck with the lead goal.
Otto Rauhala in turn thanked Kärppien underpowered Michal Kovarcic too from a mistake and made it 2–0.
The target gun of flies Reid Gardiner narrowed by superiority. The Canuck forward leads the scoring market with eight goals. At the second break, the match is 3–1, when Tappara’s yankee pack Daniel Brickley hit with overwhelming force.
Pelicans–Ilves
In the match that started at 19:30, Pelicans, who started their season miserably, and Ilves, who led the series with a clean game, faced each other.
The Pelicans are about to make a huge surprise and lead Ilves 3–2 at the second period break.
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Series table from this link (teletext)
Saturday 28.9. all league teams are in action when the eight-game round is played. The matches start at 17:00. The ice hockey round in Areena starts at 16:30.