At home, Tampere’s Tappara won Kouvola’s KooKoo with goals 4–2. The rising TPS covered the Pelicans’ away with Pärssinen’s overtime score of 2–1.
Tappara took his ninth consecutive home win in the hockey league on Thursday in Tampere. Tappara, third in the league table, defeated KooKoon 4–2.
The rarity of the match was that Tappara scored all of his four goals in special situations: two in the underpower game, one in the penalty shootout and one in the overpower.
In the first installment of Tapparan Casimir Jürgens hit 1-0 undercurrent when a teammate Joni Tuulola sat for two minutes on camping ice. In the second installment Petteri Puhakka finished the penalty shot for Tappara 2-1.
Puhakka culminated in a great evening by giving the captain to Tappara at the end of the second set Otto Rauhala Rauhala fired a 3–2 lead into the home team 43 seconds before the break. At that time, Tappara was an ice seal Tomas Hamara.
In the first installment, Rauhala had scored a 1-0 underpower goal by Jürgens.
Tappara’s victory is sealed at the end by a former KooKoo striker who struck 4-2 Kyle Platzer.
The loss was the third in a row for KooKoo.
Jäähy-Pärssinen became a TPS hero
In Lahti, TPS took a valuable 2–1 away win from Pelicans in overtime. TPS broke seventh in the league table with three games less than HPK.
The winning goal was scored 2-1 by a 63.35 rush hour TPS striker Juuso Pärssinen. The second striker of the second generation, Pärssinen, started the overtime with a two-minute hook ice, which TPS survived.
– Yes, it drove the mist, Pärssinen commented to C Morelle about the excitement caused by her cooling.
TPS, who led the league in the fall, sometimes went downhill for a long time, but has won five of its last six matches.
– Let’s play work trousers on our feet, print my job, Pärssinen justified the rise of the Turku team.
Pelicans, who lost 1-4 to TPS last Sunday, received good news before Thursday’s match when it was confirmed that a Pelicans striker who had returned to Lahti from Austria Jesse Saarinen had obtained a license to play.
Defender of TPS Elmeri Eronen played against Pelicansia in the 400th match of his league career.