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Pelicans - Continued their amazing season by putting four goals past second-placed KalPa. Justin Hodgman opened the scoring at 11:12, and the Lahti-team were two goals up with 32 seconds left in the middle session. Antti Tyrvainen finishing after being set up by Hodgman and Ben Blood. The latter then got a goal of his own early into the final period, with Morten Poulsen completing the comprehensive win at 45:20. Pelicans are currently sitting in seventh place with 48 points, and only four back of fourth placed HIFK.
Lukko go into the Christmas break still bottom of the standings after they lost to league leaders Tappara. The Tampere-side were ahead at 6:09 when leading scorer Veli-Matti Savinainen netted after being set up by Jukka Peltola.
Aleksi Saarela did tie the game at 28:58 and for a while it looked like the Rauma-based side might be able to cause a shock result, especially once the game went into overtime. However, with 41 seconds gone in the extra session, Savinainen turned provider and returned the favour to set-up Peltola for the game’s winner.
Savinainen now has 33 points [19+14] after that game and is still leading the scoring charts ahead of Tappara team-mate Jenrik Haapala.
Lukko are three points back of SaiPa, but more worryingly now find themselves eight behind a quartet of teams. Ilves, Karpat, KooKoo and JYP now all tied on 41 points.
While Tappara now have a three point lead following their win and KalPa’s loss to Pelicans.
TPS remain third in the Standings, despite not having a game last week. On the plus side, they are still only four points behind second-placed KalPa having now got a game in hand on the team from Kuopio.
HIFK had a successful visit to face SaiPa, winning 4-2. Roope Hintz and Joonas Rask scored early on, before Mikael Kuronen pulled on back for SaiPa. Mikael Johansson then restored the Helsinki-club’s two goal lead before the first period was over. But Brock Trotter pulled another goal back for the home side early into the seconds period to set up a tense finale. It was only when Juhamatti Aaltonen netted with 28 seconds left that HIFK were sure of their victory.
JYP were thankful to Ossi Louhivaara who hit two goals against HPK. JYP had falled behind to a Teemu Turunen goal at 20:17, but with less than nine minutes to go Louhivaara tied it up to force overtime. Halfway through the extra session Louhivaara hit the winner.
KooKoo got a big win in Pori, beating Assat 5-2 who were in fine form of late. They did it the hard way too, coming from two goals behind, after Jere Seppala and Matias Varttinen scored just over a minute apart. Mikko Virtanen, pulled the first goal back for KooKoo with 46 seconds left in the opening period, and Eero Savilhati tied it just before the mid-point of the game.
But it was the final 3 minutes where Assat threw the game away. Jere Seppala was in the penalty box and that allowed KooKoo’s powerplay to click into gear. Jarkko Malinen scored at 56:50 to give his side their first lead of the game. At the same time Matti Kuparinen was assessed a 10 minute misconduct as the Pori-side started to implode. Anrei Hakulinen scored at 58:31 to extend KooKoo’s lead and then Juha-Pekka Hastaja netted another with 48 seconds left to confirm their victory.
Elsewhere, Karpat beat Ilves with a John Albert goal 30 seconds into overtime. The team from Oulu had taken an early lead through Ville Leskinen only for Miiko Hintz and Olli Vainio to score within two minutes of one another in the third period. Karpat were relieved though when Miika Pyorala levelled the scores with 70 seconds left in regulation time to force overtime and set up Albert to be the hero.
Jukurit recorded an impressive win in Vaasa, beating Sport 3-1. Teemu Henritius, Janne Kumpulainen and Topi Nattinen all scored for the Mikkeli-team by 28:39, while Jonnas Vihko’s goal at 40:56 was little more than a consolation.
Tuesday, December 20
HPK v JYP 1-2
Karpat v Ilves 3-2
Pelicans v KalPa 4-0
SaiPa v HIFK 2-4
Sport v Jukurit 1-3
Tappara v Lukko 2-1
Assat v KooKoo 2-5
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