One man’s “absolutely shocking” effect on Tappara – Pori Spring woke up to the full overwhelming Sport

The hockey tour follows the playoffs from start to finish in Arena and on Wednesdays Radio Finland. Shipment 1. Half -finals on Wednesday 26.3. starting at 6:02 pm.

The semi-finals of the Ice Hockey League were confirmed on Monday night as Tappara and SaiPa secured their place in the follow-up.

Aces and Sport were previously investigated in the quarterfinals. The top four teams Lukko, Ilves, KalPa and HIFK secured their regular season positions in the quarter -finals and have been able to rest for a week and a half.

Sports Expert Jesse Saarinen Go through the quarter -finals played.

Aces – HPK

Pori’s Aces finished seventh in the regular season, thus faced the tenth HPK.

In the end, the Pori was a much better team than Hämeenlinna, as they handled the series directly in three matches.

According to Saarinen, the Ace and HPK playoff series was a complete overwhelming walk.

– Pori spring has come to life and the team took off all the energy. As the last game of the series showed, HPK had no looking seam to answer Ace. Aces went to the first team in the quarterfinals as the first team.

Aces will face KalPa, who is third in the regular season in the quarter -finals. The series starts on Wednesday in Kuopio.

KooKoo – Sport

KooKoo, who played a high -strength spring season in the regular season, met Vaasa Sport in the quarter -finals. KooKoo was sixth in the regular season, Sport 11th.

– It was thought that KooKoo’s strong spring hire would continue in the playoffs. However, they never got to the driver and Sport was surprisingly good, Saarinen sums up.

For the first time in his fourth attempt, Sport won the playoff series in the Finnish Champions League and also advanced to the quarterfinals for the first time.

– After the early financial difficulties, the team has been built. It was great to watch the atmosphere in the last game when the team sang with the audience.

Sport ranked the most weakened in the quarter -finals in the regular season, which will receive the hardest possible responsibilities, the winner of the regular season.

SaiPa – TPS

His strong regular season coach Raimo Helminen SaiPa, who played under the leadership, was faced with TPS, who had a lot of reached the playoffs. However, the series became surprisingly flat and the solution was always sought through the longest formula – in the follow -up game.

Captain of Lappeenranta became the solver Ville Petman with another hit in the playoffs.

TPS was already 2-0 in the match series until SaiPa found his game again and then won three games in the tube.

– Although SaiPa had played well in the regular season, that team has not yet had such a culture of winning. The playoffs always create a different pressure. However, SaiPa started the machines later, says Saarinen.

– The Lappeenranta residents had much room for improvement. Here were quite similar teams. Both have a lot of skating attackers, and it was shown in that sequel that it was quite an open game. In the future, the game will be completely different.

Fifth in the regular season SaiPa will face the IFK in Helsinki in the quarterfinals.

Tappara-Kiekko-Espoo

– Espoo got off to the driver and won that first match. Tappara, on the other hand, showed his greatness in his first home match and then swept the floor with the people of Espoo, Saarinen explains.

In a decisive fifth match on Monday, the home team Kiekko-Espoo dominated the first two rounds, but in the third, Tappara was clearly more advanced.

– How, in the final round, the old familiar Tappara came to life and raged with the leadership of the top players. Certainly a big mental victory for the team.

According to the expert, Tappara was not really playing in the series what has been seen from the team in previous years. Namely, in the last three years, the people of Tampere have progressed almost sovereignly to the finals and won the championship every time.

– This time the result was enough for the quarter -finals.

Tappara got an important factor in his lineup – six times the Finnish champion Veli-Matti SavinainenSavinainen, who celebrated several championships in Tappara, played for over 14 minutes in the match and was accustomed to where it happened.

– Savanainen had an absolutely shocking effect on Tappara’s aggression. I don’t think they would have won without clay.

– From the very first change, Savinainen pulled with a full fool and drove all the tackles to the end. It felt like he wouldn’t have been out of that Tappara lineup for a day.

Savinainen had last played on 21 February. Immediately at the beginning of yesterday’s match, he rolled at a terrible pace Tobias Ekbergwho couldn’t play in the match after that.

– It was a good idea to test right at the start of the game what the day’s condition is. It was pretty good, Savinainen said after the match According to Ilta-Sanomat.

In the upcoming semi -finals, Savinainen plays a big role in the Tappara team.

The hockey tour follows the playoffs from start to finish in Arena and on Wednesdays Radio Finland. Shipment 1. Half -finals on Wednesday 26.3. starting at 6:02 pm.