In the ice hockey league, the top four teams are only within one point. Lukko, who played the flute on Friday, kept his top spot when SaiPa and Ilves lost.
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A depressed Tappara beat Kiekko-Espoo 7-1 in show style and said goodbye to their five-game losing streak in Tampere. Kiekko-Espoo, which had previously won the first two Tappara meetings of the season, lost for the sixth time in a row. Julius Mattila scored 2+1.
– Tappara stepped on the gas in the second set and scored goals effectively, although he didn’t create that many chances. K-Espo mentally had a small click at that point, analyzed ‘s ice hockey tour expert Top Nättinen
K-Espoo has now played nine matches without the team’s sensational goalkeeper at the beginning of the season Petteri from Rimpwho shone with the goal of the Young Silver Lions and was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the tournament, and won only one of them – and that too in overtime.
Rimpinen’s meaning seems to be Jyrki Ahon massive for guardrails. With a save in the third league game of his career Aleksi Karjalainen19, didn’t have his best night between the posts and he had to score a couple of easy goals in the deciding phase with the goal of Espoo.
– The honeymoon is truly over. We have to slowly start to understand growing up with the games. Today we collapsed in the second set. Fortunately, tomorrow, Saturday, there will be a quick new attempt.
– We cannot go behind any individual, even Petteri Rimpinen, who will not play tomorrow. The whole team must participate in the talks. However, we have almost the same team as from the beginning of the season, when we still got results, Aho reminded.
History was made in the league round, when the series saw for the first time a match where foreign brothers faced each other. Tapparan John Quenneville28, played two years older, representing K-Espoo Peter Quenneville against.
HIFK and JYP to full point pots
HIFK, who lost to KalPa twice earlier this season, got a 3-1 revenge against Kuopio at Nordis. Kasper Lundell, Ilari Melart and Micke-Max Åsten excelled as the scorers of the winners. Sick Stefanos Lekkas Replaced KalPa in goal Patrik Kerkola17, saved the second match of his league career against HIFK.
JYP’s foreign duo Nathan Schnarr (2+1) and Danil Torgersson (1+2) excelled in a 5–1 away win against league jumbo Jukurei. JYP’s 20-year-old striker Jere Lassila is on an 11-game point streak. The win was the fourth in a row for the Central Finns.
Horky lifted the Pelicans to victory
In Kisapuisto’s Friday sauna, SaiPa lost the 2–1 lead it had acquired at the beginning of the final set, when Pelicans rose Lubos Horkyn by two and by Lars Bryggman with one goal for a 4–2 away win.
Pelicans coach Juhamatti Yli-Junnila didn’t easily swallow SaiPa’s 2-1 goal in the 3rd period, which Roni Karvinen made football with the familiar “back hammer” superiority. Based on the videos, the judges did not consider the hit with the skate to be intentionally controlled.
Expert Nättinen commented on the uproar by saying that Karvinen “mainly dodged the puck and didn’t have time to deliberately do a back hammer” in the situation, which has become a well-known goal move in football, among other things Zlatan Ibrahimovic through the agency of.
However, SaiPa was denied one goal in the final set, when Mikko Kousa hit the Pelicans goalie Olaf to Lindbom by the time the puck hits the Pelicans’ net. Raimo Helminen in turn did not like this rejection.
Sport does not lose with horses in Vaasa
Sport by Johan Sundström The 4-3 overtime goal sank Ilves. Sport played its 23rd home game of the season, and has only gone three times without a point in Vaasa.
It was a win Juuso Hahl fourth in a row for the troops, the loss for Ilves was the third in a row.
The match between KooKoo and Kärppie started an hour later than the others and is in the final set in a situation of 3–3.
Kuntopuntari’s top two KooKoo and Kärpät have won seven of their previous eight games. Defender of flies Marcus Björk is on a seven-game point streak. KooKoo’s defender Kalle Loponen already completed his 13th goal of the season.
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