At home, Tappara won KooKoon 4–2 and leads the semi-finals 2–1.
11.4. 20:56 • Updated April 11th. 21:34
Tappara won the KooKoo 4–2 Ice Hockey Championship League in the third round of the semifinals.
The score now stands at Tappara 2–1. The series continues on Tuesday in Kouvola.
KooKoo stayed well in the game in Tampere, even though the crew was missing the team’s star pack Petteri Nikkiläwhose season ended in injury.
The first set of the match went without a goal, but the second set began to take place.
KooKoon Ville Meskanen started scoring at the beginning of the batch. Meskanen got through the middle of the playoffs Kim Strömbergin serving.
Tappara rose to levels in the middle of the second installment. Patrik Virta after a good rotation of Tappara, found space and struck with a skillful individual performance from the knuckle to the top corner of the puck.
In Tappara’s 2-1 lead, KooKoo’s pass appeared to hit the referee’s skates at an angle, after which Veli-Matti Savinainen grabbed the puck and lifted the gameplay stylishly to the top corner. After a couple of minutes, KooKoo acknowledged the levels when Radek Koblizekin kuti whispered to the finish after starting.
In the third installment, Tappara took the lead to 3–2 Kyle Platzerin by hitting after force majeure. Platzer’s hit was the winning goal of the match.
Otto Rauhala hit another empty goal at the end.
Tapparan Christian Heljanko blocked 19 times in the match, KooKoo goalkeeper To Oskari Setänen repressions accumulated on 28.