Pelicans’ strong start in the deciding game of the quarterfinals took off Tommi Niemelän you secured a 4–2 win over KalPa and at the same time a 4–3 win in the semi-finals. In the semi-final series starting on Friday and Saturday in Lahti, Tampere Ilves, the runner-up of the regular season, will face each other.
The biggest surprise of the SM league season, Pelicans kept their home advantage until the end, winning all four KalPa playoff games played in Lahti by scores of 2–1, 2–1, 3–1 and 4–2. Statistically, the home team has won the stoppage time in the playoffs in the SM league with a large percentage, 82% (23/28).
Pelicans have been in the medal games of the hockey SM league for the last time and the only time in the club’s history Kai Suikkanen under in the season 2011-12. At that time, the puck pride of the mast city knocked out Kärpät in the quarter-final tie game and in the end memorably advanced to silver.
The recruitments of the Lahti people have succeeded exceptionally well, as no less than 13 of the team’s 14 playoff goals against KalPa came from the stage of foreign reinforcements: Lars Bryggman (5+2) and Lukas Jasek (3+6) Tyler Kelleher (4+0) and Ben Blood (1+2).
The best batch of the playoffs from the Pelicans is too much for KalPa
Pelicans entered the match with a completely different attitude than the opponent and played their best game of the series. Activity and courage on the puck were rewarded after only five minutes of play, when Tyler Kelleher sivalsi scored his fourth goal of the playoffs in 5:34.
Kasper from Simontaipale a wonderful solution in the gutter, in your own area. Tried something with one hand. Mistakes are easily repeated, after that by Colby Sissons tear down right after wrong. Lukas Jasek through the puck To Tyler Kelleherwho found space in Rahm’s armpit with a shot.
Pelicans young defender Topias Vilen made a big misjudgment in the middle of the team’s dominance and pulled a tackle in the attacking zone to the opponent’s head in 9:13
– Tough place. A pointless, sloppy Taklaus KalPa pack from Vilen on the offensive end by Anton Karlsson on. Both players played the situation foolishly, but the League’s policy is that Tackles aimed at the head are removed. It was acted upon, said Puhee’s expert Top Nättinen.
KalPa lost its five-minute advantage
The puck expert wondered what the defenseman was doing at the end of the offensive zone as the first tipper.
– The head was hit by that Taklaus, although it came a bit as an extension of the body. Karlsson was in a bad position. He should have known that Taklaus was coming, Nättinen continued.
KalPa reached its peak when Tuomas Kiiskinen a high stick flashed straight at the Pelicans Ben Blood’s to the face.
Sissons, the defender of the visiting team, darkened his bad game by taking the second from the cross stick, which the Pelicans did not miss.
Teemu Eronen passed with superiority to the b-point spot, from which Jasek shot directly from the pass for a 2–0 goal in 16:36.
– A very nice shot through the back post and into the goal. KalPa started to apply pressure in the situation, sometimes it just backfires, Nättinen explained.
Search time at KalPa in the second set
The second set ended 1–1, although the 20-minute game was clearly KalPan’s.
– KalPa joined the game. The opponent gave it a small seam. A two-goal lead is dangerous in hockey. Careless puck losses from the Pelicans. The people of Lahti should be humble and rude in such a situation. That doesn’t mean you should be passive, expert Nättinen said.
Pelicans defender KalPa’s stray pass Juuso Mäenpää led a drive through in the 27th minute, but he couldn’t get the puck past Patrik Bartos toowho nicely stretched himself in the situation, scooping up the game tool under him.
In the midst of a good pursuit by the Savoia Lars Bryggman tipped from a small corner to give Pelicans a 3–0 lead in 34:33. The big Swedish striker first tried from the corner and with the second attempt he coolly put the puck on the ceiling, right on the top shelf.
KalPa defender Anton Karlsson raised the visitors’ hopes by hitting a back post locker goal at the end of the second period, a minute before the buzzer. From Max Görtz a wonderful cross pass to a narrow shot from a direct attack.
In the third set Tommi Miettinen the subordinates did not want to get to the place where the work was done at first. In addition, a couple of relatively light penalties taxed the guests’ strength and belief in their own pursuit.
– In my opinion, two a little strange ices (for KalPa), considering that we are playing a stalemate, wondered expert Nättinen Benjamin Korhonen and Aapeli Räsänen little twos.
The power forward, one of the heroes of the match, Bryggman scored the liberating 4–1 goal for the home team in 56:01. Lasse Lappalainen at the end of the reduction, KalPa was left with only cosmetics.
The 7th quarter-final of the Ice Hockey Championship League:
Pelicans – KalPa 4–2 (2-0,1-1,1-1)
05.34 1-0 Kelleher (Jasek)
16.36 2-0 Jasek (Eronen, Roine) yv
34.33 3-0 Bryggman (Mylläri, Jasek)
38.58 3-1 Karlsson (Görtz, Korhonen)
56.01 4-1 Bryggman (Jasek)
57.00 4-2 Lappalainen (Sissons)
Goalkeepers Audience: 4403
Bartosak 5+ 8+ 4 = 17
Rahm 6+ 4+ 6 = 16
Pelicans won 4-3 to the semifinals
Semi-finals program 2023
Tappara – HIFK
Fri 31.3. at 18:30 HIFK – Tappara
Sat 1.4. at 17.00 HIFK – Tappara
Wed 5.4. at 18:30 Tappara – HIFK
Fri 7.4. at 17:00 Tappara – HIFK
If necessary:
Mon 10.4. at 17:00 Tappara – HIFK
Wed 12.4. at 18:30 HIFK – Tappara
Fri 14.4. at 18:30 Tappara – HIFK
Lynx – Pelicans
Fri 31.3. at 18:30 Pelicans – Ilves
Sat 1.4. at 17:00 Pelicans – Ilves
Thu 6.4. at 18:30 Ilves – Pelicans
Sat 8.4. at 17:00 Ilves – Pelicans
If necessary:
Tue 11.4. at 18:30 Ilves – Pelicans
Thu 13.4. at 18:30 Pelicans – Ilves
Sat 15.4. at 17:00 Ilves – Pelicans