Vaasan Sport won the first playoff match in the men’s hockey league. Hockey-Espoo reset Master Tappara.
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Vaasa’s Sport rose to a 3-1 away win over KooKoo at the opening of the 1st playoff round on Tuesday.
– We are supposed to go to the future and find at least one win here. The team was patient today and focused, praised Sport’s pilot Juuso Hahl.
For the fourth time in the playoffs, Sport was only for the first time in the Playoffs series. The people of Vaasa had previously reached the playoffs during the 2015-16, 2020-21 and 2023-24 and finished tenth every time.
Simon Hjalmarsson (1+1), Viljami Nieminen and Cole Fonstad excelled in Sport’s goalkeepers. In the first installment, the guests also had Atro Leppänen pole shot.
Sport gained his winnings with its strengths, the number one category with the solutions of the players and the powerful superiority, which was the third best in the regular season.
-In all aspects of the game, we were not in the winning game. Instead, Sport was effective. This was only the first playoff game for this team. Tomorrow is to show where we have been carved, KooKoo coach Jouko Myrrä stated.
The goal expectation by the fight went to KooKoo 3.23-1.92.
Select the heroe, Rimpinen to zero game
TPS goalkeeper Noa choice At the top level, 37 shots fought at the highest level when TPS, like Vaasa, acquired a home for himself with a 2-1 win in the race park. TPS defender Otto Salin There was another Teps hero with two goals.
– The third was the most balanced installment for us. It is clear that we need to improve in the future-and so will we do, TPS coach Tommi Miettinen promised.
SaiPa ruled the long snippets of the game, but inefficiency bothered Raimo Helminen troops. Janne Naukkarinen was the only scorer on the home team. The shots were marked for Lappeenranta 64-22.
– This was the biggest surprise today. An incredibly big win for TPS and it received without a powerhouse Max Lindroth Overwhelming. Gamely, the match was 99-1 in SaiPa, who is already a forced win tomorrow, EPN’s hockey expert Topi Nättinen your photo.
Keeper Petteri Rimpinen All 31 reels were fought by the Kiekko-Espoo won Master Tappara with 1-0 in Espoo.
– I didn’t know what to expect when I hadn’t played before in the playoffs. Pretty acid I was at the end. In the future, we need to get more offensive game, not just to defend, Rimpinen talked.
The only one of the match was named in the first round Arttu Tuomaala. Tappara took the shot 31-18.
– In the second and third rounds, I thought we were better and got enough goals. We need more mask and dirty work. There was a lot of good in the game, even though the result was not what we wanted, Tappara pilot Rikard Grönborg Comment.
In the second round, the puck-Espoo had a penalty shot, but Cameron Hillis did not get a special situation puck past Tappara goalkeeper Filip Lindberg.
Aces kept their home
Aces also kept the playoffs home when it fell HPK in 3-2 in Pori.
The solution was seen in the second round of the final minute when Valtteri Viljanen The long-haul took Aces to a 3-2 lead. The goalkeeper area had slipped aces Peter Tiivolabut there was no harassment of the goalkeeper in the judges.
HPK coach Mikko Manner There was no agreement at all during the game.
– These are great battle games, everything was put in the way. The Aces of the last round defended really billy. A little of this was left in the tooth, said the continent and did not criticize the solution.
The playoffs will continue tomorrow Wednesday and then on Friday. If necessary, play on Saturday and Monday. Three wins reach the quarterfinals.
The quarterfinals will start in Rauma, Tampere, Kuopio and Helsinki on Wednesday, March 26, next week.
The Playout series between Pelicans and Jukuri will start on Friday 21st in Lahti, followed by Saturday, Tuesday and at least Friday.