Six matches were played in the ice hockey championship league on Saturday night. If any game can start rough, it’s Luko’s game against Jukurei. Started with a lock goal Daniel Lebedeff moved to the bench in 8:54, when Jukurit had already scored four goals. No saves were recorded in the statistics.
The situation was 1–4 at that stage. Jukurit scored a couple of great school goals and just as many lucky hits. You shouldn’t put everything on the goalkeeper’s neck, because Luko’s five-man defense was also in the wind.
They painted a fresh reinforcement from Jukurei Anton Olsson (1+1), Samuel Salonen, Patrik Puistola and Niklas Peltomäki (2+0). Peltomäki’s second came from a penalty shot in the final set. From an experienced department Jesper Piitulainen scored his opening goal of the season. Jukurit took their first win of October with a score of 6–1.
Luko’s only son was responsible Sebastian Repo.
Substituted for Lebedeff Samuel Harvey made nine saves on Saturday and let two pucks behind him. The statistics of Luko’s goalies therefore went downhill drastically – against Jukurei, the veskars collected pucks with a total of 60 percent accuracy.
Luko’s team was reprimanded, and the coach ordered the group to practice on the ice after the game. According to Satakunta Kansa Lukko stayed Lukko stayed in training, and the players were not available for interviews after the match.
– Congratulations to the Jukurs for a great win. In the same breath, you have to apologize for the result to the great home crowd. There were a lot of families and children here, who surely came to watch good hockey entertainment. It was only performed by Jukurit, the Lukko head coach Tomi Lämsa lateli according to SK.
Jukurit, who broke their losing streak of five matches, rose to eighth place, Lukko continues in fifth place.
Confusing goal celebration even from Sport
At the tail end of the series, KalPa fell to a 2–7 loss as a guest of Sport. Having scored four goals in their previous four home games, Vaasan Sport opened the ketchup bottle.
All four of Sport’s attacking chains succeeded in scoring, and a different factor was marked for all seven goals. Sport’s iconic four-piece luthier also took part in the goal kicks Erik Riska, who completed his second goal of the season. In a way, also the third one.
– Actually, two goals were scored today. I scored one in the opponent’s goal and one in my own at the end. I guess there are three goals in the pile, Riska grinned.
– The result is on the board. Turpa came and let’s go home, KalPa’s head coach Petri Karjalainen sighed.
Sport has experienced a lot of adversity during the early season. During the first games of the season, the team lost players to illness in almost every game, and the defenders are still sidelined Reece Scarlett and Carl-Johan Lerby.
The Canadian striker was the last to leave the team on Friday Erik Brown, who unexpectedly decided to end his playing career at the age of 28. He was playing in Sport’s first division until a week ago.
– It was his decision, and we respect it. Brown brought a lot of good things to this team, Riska commented.
Tappara’s winning streak continues, SaiPa continued the dark period of TPS
Tampere Ilves grabbed three points from Jyväskylä, when JYP lost 2–1. Ilves star striker Eemeli Finland shook the gorilla off his shoulders and scored the game-winning goal in 52.06. The hit for Finland was the first of the season.
of JYP Jerry Turkulainen played the 400th league game of his career, but went without a power point. The JYP attacker still continues to be at the top of the points market (in 13 matches, 7+13=20). Anttoni Honka on the other hand, returned from North America back to Jyväskylä and played his first match on Saturday.
JYP suffered an ugly defeat in Kouvola on Friday, but Saturday’s performance at home was still quiet.
– The demands of the game were very tough. The cooperation of enterprise and wisdom was the most important. Much improved from yesterday. However, we weren’t able to attack all four chains, JYP’s head coach Jukka Rautakorpi regretted.
Pelicans claimed an away victory when they defeated HPK 3–1 in the first part of the Hämeen herruus battle. Pelicans’ Canadian center Nathan Schnarr was in the main role as he hit with an upper hand and hit the last blank just 20 seconds before the end.
Top of the league Tappara took their eighth consecutive win by defeating Kärpät away 4–1. The clear final numbers are a little blurry, because Tappara hit the last two hits on the empty Kärppie goal with a feeling and quality puck.
– The last set was good from us and we had real opportunities to tie the game. I’m satisfied with the style we played, even if we didn’t manage to score (just once), Kärpät pilot Lauri Marjamäki inch.
The jumbo team SaiPa only got their second three-point win of the season when they gave the Turku club TPS a tolerance treatment on Saturday. Kisapuisto saw a home win with goals of 3–1, even though TPS rubbed the puck in the attack zone for almost 24 minutes and the Lappeenranta team only a good eight minutes.
The winning goal went to the winger who scored his first league goal Janne Naukkarinen to names. His shot in the direction of the Turku goal was deflected into the goal by a TPS defender Sisu-Petteri Lehtonen from skating.
– We were able to score decisive goals. I have to admit that I tried to pass, even though it went through Pak to the goal. Come to me when you’ve been able to play in the league and show your strengths, smiled Naukkarinen, 19, a SaiPa-raised student who is vying for a place in the under-20 World Cup.
SaiPa’s goalkeeper Kari Piiroinen accumulated more saves in the final set alone than with a TPS goal for the first start of his league career Noa for Val, 18, in the entire match. The match was Forssain-bred Vali’s second at the league level, a year and a week after his game-long debut.
The scoreless loss for TPS was the fourth in a row. All of them have come with a difference of at least two goals. Turku’s balance from the last nine matches is two wins worth two points.
Series table from this link.
SM League on Saturday:
HPK–Pelicans 1–3 (1–0, 0–2, 0–1)
15.24 1–0 Ketola (Toivola, Huttunen)
26.51 1–1 Enlund (Schnarr, Lasch) yv
27.14 1–2 Schnarr (Lasch, Haatanen) yv
59.40 1–3 Schnarr (Haatanen, Jordan) etc
Goalkeepers
Markkanen 5+13+5=23
Straw rope 3+5+11=19
JYP–Ilves 1–2 (0–0, 0–1, 1–1)
37.45 0–1 Könönen (Mäntykivi)
46.50 1–1 Puustinen (Niku, Winberg)
52.06 1–2 Finland (Virtanen, Ikonen)
Goalkeepers
Vehviläinen 11+6+11=28
Gunnarsson 7+7+5=19
Kärpät–Tappara 1–4 (0–0, 0–2, 1–2)
31.44 0–1 Levtchi (Leskinen, Keskinen) yv
32.13 0–2 Somppi (Vittasmäki, Baptiste)
45.34 1–2 Antti-Roiko (Hyry, Jandus)
59.06 1–3 Somppi etc
59.22 1–4 Levtchi (Puhakka, Heljanko) etc
Goalkeepers
Westerholm 3+7+4=14
Heljanko 14+6+13=33
Lock–Jukurit 1–6 (1–4, 0–1, 0–1)
03.19 0–1 Olsson (Mäkinen)
06.06 0–2 Salonen (Olsson, Nässen)
07.42 0–3 Puistola (Helenius, Engebråten)
07.59 1–3 Repo (Burke, Abt)
08.54 1–4 Peltomäki (Huuhtanen, O Kovarcik)
29.57 1–5 Piitulainen (Romppanen, Mäkiaho)
52.47 1–6 Peltomäki rl
Goalkeepers
Lebedeff 0+0+0=0
Harvey 1+4+4=9
Korhonen 5+9+7=21
SaiPa–TPS 3–1 (0–0, 2–0, 1–1)
33.46 1–0 Siikonen (Kivenmäki, Airola)
37.43 2–0 Naukkarinen (Morand, Trejbal)
42.00 2–1 Finland (Hemming, Intonen) yv 49.37
3–1 Helewka (Morand, Kivenmäki) yv
Goalkeepers
Circled 5+9+15=29
Choose 6+5+3=14
Sport–KalPa 7–2 (0–0, 4–1, 3–1)
20.57 1–0 Stålberg (Nalli, Sundström)
22.39 2–0 Aarnio (Mattsson, Heikkinen)
26.47 2–1 Rissanen (Mattila, Jatkola)
33.44 3–1 Riska (Miketinac, Nieminen)
36.24 4–1 Holmström (Lööke, Hjalmarsson)
41.59 5–1 Mattsson (Hayes, Leppänen)
48.01 6–1 Leppänen (Miketinac) sr
54.07 7–1 Lööke (Suhonen, Hjalmarsson) yv
59.18 7–2 Mattila (Klemetti, Rissanen)
Goalkeepers
Svoboda 5+10+7=22
Continuation 5+9+10=24