Sports expert Ismo Lehkonen wondered why HIFK’s first category players didn’t answer the call in the first quarter-final, which Pelicans won 4-2 in Lahti. Having fallen into big mistakes Jori Lehterä there was especially a lot left to improve.
– We weren’t at our best in the beginning either, and we couldn’t make a winning game. Earned first touchdown for the Pelicans. Nervous control betrayal and unwinnable doing, fast forward from here and towards Friday, HIFK pilot Ville Peltonen your line.
– A really good match from us. We kept our composure the whole time and we believed that things would turn around. At least there was enough speed and feeling today, commented the two-goal hero Antti Tyrväinen.
HIFK led Juha Jääskän in the goal after the opening set. At that point, the home team destroyed their two-man advantage that lasted two and a half minutes.
In the second set, HIFK lost the lead due to gross marking errors. Pelicans trio Patrik Carlsson–Lars Bryggman–Ryan Lasch drew the score to 1–1 in 29:38.
Tyrväinen scored from in front of the goal to give Pelicans a 2–1 lead at the end of the second period Juhamatti Aaltonen from the magical luxury passport in 38.06.
In the third period, Tyrväinen sneaked through from Lehterä’s puck loss and shot a 3-1 shot past the glove side Roope Taponen in time 56.16
Frustrated by the losing situation, the HIFK hero Leo Komarov stupidly hammered the Pelicans defender lying on the ice with a cross stick and fists Michael Jordan in the neck and after the video review went to the shower with a 5+20 minute penalty in 56:29.
– Pretty sure that will result in a ban, it was such a similar act to Kärppien’s By Nick Ritchie. Antti Tyrväinen’s field put HIFK’s big players in their back pocket in the match, described Lehkonen, who commented on the matches on Radio Finland.
TPS dominated two sets, Heljanko kept Tapparaa up
In the first two sets, TPS was clearly more ready to play than the reigning champion and number one in the regular season.
TPS still didn’t get the award, when Tappara was bluntly efficient in his own, few chances and his excellent goalkeeper Christian Heljanko kept Palloseura under control.
The visitors’ head coach Tommi Miettinen was surprised when the team from Turku was denied a full hit in the opening set in a goalless situation, even if Tapparan Otto Somppi kicked the puck into his own and it went completely inside the line, and there was no goalkeeper interference in the situation.
The reason for the rejection was, after the video review, that the referees had blown the whistle before the goal.
Tapparan Carter Camper contrary to the events of the game, took Tappara to a 1–0 lead at the end of the first period.
TPS got to play for almost two minutes with five against three at the beginning of the second period, but TPS’ special men did not succeed.
The people of Tampere got to the last set with a 2–1 lead. In the middle of the match, Heljanko had blocked 31 shots, TPS Philip Lindbergh only seven. Petteri Puhakka controlled from the air Oiva Keskinen past the knuckleball offered by the powerless Lindberg in the time of 35.12.
Aarne Talvitie sohi TPS in 39:00 for the deserved 1–2 reduction in front of the goal, the sixth Palloseura superiority of the evening, which Tappara acquired for himself by playing too many field players on the ice.
Tappara finally signed up to play in the third period and after that on the ice it looked like Palloseura ran out of fuel. Otto Rauhala and finished the second one of the evening Puhakka sealing the final numbers at 4–1.
Flies ahead in everything, the winning streak was preceded by a substitution error
The center of Jukurei’s first court Michal Kovarcik injured himself in the opening change, just 14 seconds into the game in Oulu.
– There was a hard hit on the wrist. And even to a place where there was no glove. It seemed to hit the bone, now it really hurt, ‘s ice hockey expert Ismo Lehkonen reported on Radio Suomen’s broadcast.
Michal Kovarcik left the locker room looking pained, but returned to action at the start of the second period.
Kärpät also clearly dominated the opening set and took a 1–0 lead Teemu Turunen with a goal scored in 5:50. Jukurien Pakkipari Lucas Nordsäter and especially Niilo Romppanen sparkled in their own area at the opening of the game and embarrassingly lost the puck to the golden helmet Turunen.
Kärpät got the puck into Jukurie’s goal at the very end of the second period, but after video review it was rejected as a high stick. In addition, Turunen once again tipped the ball into the visitors’ post.
Jukurit unexpectedly rose to 1-1 in the third period, when Jarkko Immonen the puck went to the Kärppä player from the kick-off Ville Koivunen the goalkeeper who was stunned by a shot past his own goal Tomi Karhusen in time 45:57.
Flies Julius Junttila stepped into a big role in a tight spot and shot the winning goal 2–1 from the arc with a precise wrist shot in 49:58.
– Even the referee observer came to say that the second goal was clearly a wrong substitution. Kärpät got a clear advantage from that, said Jukurie’s coach Olli Jokinen but did not explain the loss in the situation.
At the end Joonas Kemppainen hit 3–1 from Turunen’s fine preliminary work and Koivunen sealed the final numbers to 4–1 in 57.51.
Ice hockey league 1st quarter-finals (with 4 wins to the semi-finals):
Flies – Jukurits 4–1 (1-0.0-0.3-1)
05.50 1-0 Turunen
45.57 1-1 Immonen
49.58 2-1 Junttila (Ohtamaa, Bunnaman)
56.20 3-1 Kemppainen (Turunen)
57.51 4-1 Koivunen (Kemppainen, Kivi) etc
Goalkeepers Audience: 4752
Bear 5+ 1+11 = 17
Rose 14+10+ 7 = 31
Tappara – TPS 4–1 (1-0,1-1,2-0)
16.26 1-0 Camper (Levtchi, Kontiola)
35.12 2-0 Puhakka (Keskinen, Ekberg)
39.00 2-1 Talvitie (Dudas, Marjala) yv
58.38 3-1 Rauhala (Vittasmäki) etc
58.45 4-1 Puhakka
Goalkeepers Audience: 6444
Heljanko 12+19+ 4 = 35
Lindberg 2+ 5+12 = 19
Pelicans – HIFK 4–2 (0-1.2-0.2-1)
19.00 0-1 Jääskä (Vesalainen, Bourque)
29.38 1-1 Carlsson (Bryggman, Lasch)
38.06 2-1 Tyrväinen (Aaltonen, Kral)
56.16 3-1 Tyrväinen 58.47 4-1 Kral (Lasch) yv
59.25 4-2 Nättinen (Lehtärä) im
Goalkeepers Audience: 4373
Total 4+ 7+13 = 24
Tapone 13+ 6+ 2 = 21
Thu 21.3. Lynx – KalPa 18.30
Fri 22.3. Jukurit – Kärpät 18.30 HIFK – Pelicans 18.30 TPS – Tappara 18.30