End of game

Game stats: Shots: 54-40 ; Shots on goal: 31-25 ; Goals: 3-2 ; Faceoffs: 36-25 ; Blocked shots: 6-8 ; Hits: 20-39 ; Foals against: 7-3 ; Penalty: 6-24

Saves on third period: Peters 8, Zapolski 11.

Stats of 3rd period: Shots: 13-16 ; Shots on goal: 9-13 ; Goals: 0-2 ; Faceoffs: 10-9 ; Blocked shots: 0-2 ; Hits: 6-10 ; Foals against: 2-2 ; Penalty: 4-4

Jokerit wins home opening 3-2 after exciting moments.

End of 3 period

Dinamo at full strength.

Two minutes remaining of the third period.

Dinamo scored just seconds after Jokerit was at full strength again.

Some roughing at Jokerit net and also some penalties.

Hit by Anttila, crowd likes.

Teams are at full strength.

Dinamo player on Zapolski´s crease, whistle and face off to the neutral zone.

Teams at full strength. Quite lame was Jokerit pp this time.

We have third period going.

Begin of 3 period

Saves on second period: Peters 7, Zapolski 6.

Stats of 2nd period: Shots: 20-12 ; Shots on goal: 8-6 ; Goals: 1-0 ; Faceoffs: 14-5 ; Blocked shots: 2-2 ; Hits: 4-14 ; Foals against: 4-1 ; Penalty: 2-18

End of 2 period

Nice check by Lauridsen.

One minute remaining of the 2nd period.

Balinski shoots from the line, straight to Zapolski´s lap.

Teams at full strength.

Palola´s shot saved by Peters.

I thought the reason for penalty should be slashing insteadt of high sticking.

Meija has planty of room to shoot, bad shot goes way wide.

Galiardi shoots, way high.

Teams at full strength.

Dinamo has four skaters.

Jokerit at full strength.

Jokerit power play four on three on the ice.

McMillan´s two minute penalty is served by #29 Danny Kristo.

Lessio"s shot saved by Zapolski.

Palola"s shot is good, a bit high thouhg.

Jokerit 3rd goal on power play.

Begin of 2 period

Saves on first period: Peters 12, Zapolski 6.

Stats of 1st period: Shots: 21-12 ; Shots on goal: 14-6 ; Goals: 2-0 ; Faceoffs: 12-11 ; Blocked shots: 4-4 ; Hits: 10-15 ; Foals against: 1-0 ; Penalty: 0-2

End of 1 period

Last minute of the 1st period.

Bicevskis shoots from short distance, Zapolski saves and closes the puck.

Great dekes by Tolvanen. Afterwords O"Neill shoots high.

First penalty of the game, Jokerit power play.

Kivistö"s fierce shot hits the post.

Good slap shot by Ratilainen. Peters saves with his shield glove.

Nice dekes by McMillan. No results this time.

Galiardis shot bounces to fishnets from Zapolski.

Skorcovs" shot from the line is quite good. Zapolski saves.

Ratilainen shoots from the line, wide.

Galiardi"s shot is quite lame and it"s easy for Zapolski.

Joensuu alone at Riga net. Peters catches the puck.

After seremonies game started five minutes later than it should"ve started. Now the game is on.

Begin of 1 period

Goalkeeper:
30. Zapolski Ryan (Jokerit).
35. Peters Justin (Dinamo R).

Begin of game

Teams will start the game with following lineups:

Dinamo Riga: GK Peters, LD Stollery, RD Wrenn, LW Meija, C McMillan, RW Skvorcovs

Jokerit: GK Zapolski, LD Lepistö, RD Lundin, LW Jensen N., C Regin, RW Palola

If I"ve understood correctly, Arena should be sold out today. Or at least almost full. We"ll see. Teams enter the ice for warm up.

First home game of the season for Jokerit. Eight away games started the season and that tour went quite ok. Home opening has visitors from Riga and the visiting team is Dinamo Riga. Welcome!