Credit goalkeeper Niklas Rubin’s injury left a big dent in Pori Ässie’s opening win of the season.
I flew to Hämeenahon and Olli Palolan the goals guaranteed Äss a 2–0 home win over HPK in the Pori team’s season opener in Pori.
In the fourth minute of the second period, dark clouds gathered over Ässie, when the team’s number one goalkeeper Niklas Rubin seemed to have hurt his groin in the fight.
Big goalkeeper Topias Rovio21, placed the Swede in the box excellently, blocked all eight of Club’s shots and sealed the Ässie’s point pot with his eighth match of his league career and his clean sheet.
– Rubin’s injury was unfortunate. I had a terrible panic in that situation and almost hyperventilated. However, I thought that a lot of work has been done here all summer. Nothing but calling for war, Rovio told STT.
Aces head coach Jarno Pikkarainen said that Rubin will be filming on Sunday. Their result is crucially important for Äss already at this stage of the season.
Rematch for KooKoo, back-to-back jackpot for SaiPa
KooKoo took a quick revenge on SaiPa after the senior championship with goals 3–2. However, the points in the doubles went to SaiPa 4–2.
Ville Petman (1+1) screamed at the Kisapuisto audience by bringing SaiPa to overtime with their 2-2 goal, which came without a goalkeeper in 58:49.
The winning goal was scored by a Slovenian Matic Torökwho was the only one who succeeded in his attempts after overtime and struck in the fourth pair.
Karelian hit and fought
Sport took the opening win of the season by defeating Jukurit 4–1.
The defender colossus who moved to the back lines of Vaasa Sport for this season Miro Karjalainen showed the direction for the home team by scoring the opening goal of the match.
However, Karjalainen’s match lasted two sets when he dropped his gloves against Jukurien Lucas Nordsäterin with before the teams headed to the dressing rooms for the second halftime break. Both received match penalties for the fight.
Jukurie’s US reinforcement Max Ellis continued his scoring streak and scored in his third league match in a row. His balance in the first week is five goals and one assist, with which he is number one on the point exchange.
Jyrki Aho raised his hat to his team
Kiekko-Espoo opened their score and win account after their HIFK losing games by finding TPS by Peter Quenneville 3–2 with a winning shot goal. Quenneville brought the deciding goal before Espoo in the third period to 2-2 with his superior hit.
– Hats off to our players when we came from behind by two goals. There is still a long way to go and a lot to learn, said Kiekko-Espoo’s coach Jyrki Aho for STT.
TPS lost its two-goal lead for the third time this week. Part of the reason for this is the team’s ice cap. In the first three matches, TPS has taken a total of 17 two minutes.
– We are on a good path, but at the end we played an atypical game for us. We gave up the puck far too easily, the TPS coach saw Tommi Miettinen.
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