The Disciplinary Delegation of the SM League has ordered Otto Latvala and Ronald Knot ban.
The final round of the Ice Hockey League has been banned by the Ilves Otto Latvala than HIFK To Ronald Knot.
Latvala received a 5+20 minute penalty when he tackled my KalPa captain Tuomas from Kiiski On the knee near the side. Kiiskinen left the trough with limp but KalPa’s sports director Anssi Laine He survived the situation with fright.
The disciplinary delegation ordered Latvala’s knee tackling to a three -match ban. Although Kiiskinen tried to dodge and managed to avoid tackling in his upper body, the delegation drew attention to the fact that Latvala was in a wide branch position and pushed his knee forward in the end.
According to the delegation, discipline has not generally imposed a ban on knee tackling if the tackle has at the last minute dodged his upper body out of the tackle. Such a case has also insisted that the tackling player has not performed tackling with the knee pushed forward.
– The disciplinary delegation notes that in this case Latvala performs the tackle in a wide position and, in the final stages, the knee is pushed forward. As a result, the responsibility for the tackle is in the tackle, says the delegation.
The defender’s tackle was also fatal about the victory of the Ilves regular season, as KalPa ran out of two goals in the second round.
HIFK’s defender Ronald Knot, for his part, was banned by two matches after tackling the Flyers Arttu Alelasias is. The situation was not sentenced in the match.
The league disciplinary delegation considered that Knot pushed their left foot forward and hit the underlying knee on the thigh. According to the delegation, Knot compromised the opponent and pointed out that the act was directed at the puck -free player.
Jussi Paasi and Topi Nättinen went through the SM League’s 5 minutes program.