On Monday, Tappara and SaiPa secured places in the quarterfinals.
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In the Ice Hockey League, Tappara dug a 4-3 victory over a league-based Kiekko-Espoo. SaiPa, on the other hand, won TPS in the follow -up and marched in the quarterfinals.
After the quarter -finals, the semi -finals were already secured by Sport and Aces.
The top four teams in the regular season Lukko, Ilves, KalPa and HIFK secured their place in the quarterfinals.
The semi -finals are visible below.
Lock – Sport
KalPa – Aces
HIFK – SaiPa
Ilves – Tappara
The quarterfinals will begin on Wednesday.
Rauhala silenced the Espoo audience
Tappara got a six -time Finnish champion in the decisive fifth match Veli-Matti Savinainen. 39-year-old Savinainen had been injured until the end of February.
In the previous game, the sadly injured Miro Keskitalo In the defense of Kiekko-Espoo, in turn Noah Nyman19.
The first two rounds still seemed that the league and Kiekko-Espoo dropped the reigning champion from Tappara’s sequel, but otherwise.
In the third round, they set off in the Espoo 3-1 lead.
The Tampere 3-2 reduction was shot by the defender Jonathan Andersson halfway through the final round.
The third round was the whole of Tappara’s screening, and the Espoo goalkeeper Petteri Rimpi Firely fired.
With just over two minutes left, Tappara was served the opportunity to handle overwhelming. It also used Joose Antosen to the ice. Julius Mattila With his goal, he silenced the Espoo audience and took the solution to the follow -up.
In the overtime, the decisive hit on Tappara fired Otto Rauhalaafter eight minutes of the follow -up.
The quarterfinals will see a local fight in Tampere as Tappara gets second in the league.
SaiPa’s season continues
SaiPa advanced to the quarterfinals when Ville Petman Solved the victory in the full Lappeenranta Race Hall.
The decisive fifth game of SaiPa and TPS was watching a full Lappenranta Kisapuisto Park nearly 5,000 spectators.
In Lappeenranta, SaiPa started scoring Juuso Heikkilä with a hit. For over a minute and the Turks leveled the match. As a scorer was Viljami Marjala.
In the second round SaiPa hit Mikko Petman and from TPS Marjala for the second time during the evening.
The leveling of the Turks was a real skill. Viljami Marjala deceived the former NHL defender Mark stay And finished elegantly in the upper corner.
SaiPan dominated the game events after two rounds. It says that SaiPa watch Kari Piiroinen had only five tackles in their account when the opposite side of TPS Noa to whine There were almost 20 tackles.
When the third installment was unclean, there was a follow -up to 2-2.
In the follow -up, Ville Petman became the hero of Lappeenranta.
The Lappeenranta residents who played a great season will face the fourth HIFK in the league in the quarter -finals.
The story is updated.