Helsinki
Saint Petersburg
Game summary: Shots: 44-53 ; Shots on goal: 24-28 ; Goals: 3-2 ; Faceoffs won: 27-26 ; Blocked shots: 10-7 ; Hits: 6-10 ; Foul against: 2-3 ; Penalty in minutes: 10-4
Stats of 3rd period: Shots: 21-22 ; Shots on goal: 11-11 ; Goals: 1-0 ; Faceoffs won: 10-8 ; Blocked shots: 3-3 ; Hits: 2-3 ; Foul against: 0-0 ; Penalty in minutes: 2-0
End of game
End of 3 period
Game saver for Karlsson...and crows is wild
Timeout. SKA.
Penalty. Jokerit. 47. Lajunen Ville 2 min. Throwing the Puck Outside the Playing Area
Kozum shoots just wide
5 on 6 now..SKA has empty net
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 1. Karlsson Henrik. SKA: empty net.
Last ten minutes Jokerit just throws to puck in neutral zone and one attacker skate there..
Jokerit plays pretty safety at the moment but SKA has no places to score
Hard slap shot by Anton Belov, but Karlsson is there
Burdasov seeks the top shield...Karlsson saves
Long attack, Jensen fires..Ezhov stops
Nicely Olimb keeps the puck and Jokerit gets new attakers on ice
Lajunen brings it upwards...Ezhov keeps and faceoff
Jere Sneck plays like a pro, good extra for Jokerit roster and D
Rita makes same kind of move and shoot but Ezhov now saves it in a better way
Rita hits in his own rebound, nice one
Ketov fires..Karlsson just saves
Both teams at full
Lajunen fires and Regin tipped over...Lajunen fires the post
Begin of 3 period
Stats of 2nd period: Shots: 15-21 ; Shots on goal: 8-11 ; Goals: 2-1 ; Faceoffs won: 10-10 ; Blocked shots: 6-2 ; Hits: 1-4 ; Foul against: 1-2 ; Penalty in minutes: 6-2
End of 2 period
Penalty. SKA. 17. Kovalchuk Ilya 2 min. Tripping
Jokerit clears and will get the fourth player on ice
5 on 3 now over a minute
Penalty. Jokerit. 47. Lajunen Ville 2 min. Throwing the Puck Outside the Playing Area
Whole crowd booed and whistled for this penalty
Penalty. Jokerit. 44. Jensen Jesper B. 2 min. Interference
Ilja passed to Koskiranta, who tipped it to goal..but Karlsson makes nice save and keeps rebounds in his lap
Penalty. Jokerit. 39. Kapanen Niko 2 min. Hooking
Goal: SKA. 94. Barabanov Alexander assists: 4. Koskiranta Jarno, 17. Kovalchuk Ilya
Even strength.
Nice goal by first line, Jormakka shoots, Olimb gets piece of the rebound and Kapanen shoot it to the net
Great shift for Maxim Chudinov
Chudinov fires but Karlsson saves
Jensen was tackled by Chudinov
Olimb fires wide and over
Artjukjin was so close to drop his cloves...not yet
Same kind of start as it was in the first period. Jokerit pushed hard and SKA defence
Begin of 2 period
Stats of 1st period: Shots: 8-10 ; Shots on goal: 5-6 ; Goals: 0-1 ; Faceoffs won: 6-8 ; Blocked shots: 1-2 ; Hits: 3-3 ; Foul against: 1-1 ; Penalty in minutes: 2-2
End of 1 period
Oneminute left on the first period
Artjukhin tipped over
Both teams at full strength
Yakovlev and onetimer, Karlsson saves
As poor power play as it was couple minutes ago
Jokerit turn to play shorthnded. LEts see if SKA has better pp thn Jokerit had
Penalty. Jokerit. 44. Jensen Jesper B. 2 min. Roughing
2 in 1 for SKA...Ketov shoots over
Penalty. SKA. 73. Chudinov Maxim 2 min. Hooking
Regin on goal zone, Korpikari´s shot was ignored
Chudinov fires from blueline..Karlsson keeps the puck
Wirtanen fires, Ezhov dropped...and icing
Jokerit has been much better in first eightminutes
Joensuu has great chance to score, ezhov stretch his legs and save
Seems to be one goal game. Both team plays very good defensive play in both end
Rough start for Karlsson..he missed the puck but it is not in...slightly wide
Jokerit wins the first faceoff...direct attack to the net and Ezhov stops
Begin of 1 period
Goalkeeper:
1. Karlsson Henrik (Jokerit).
33. Ezhov Ilya (SKA).
Begin of game
Referees tonight: Olenin and Anisimov
Starting six for Jokerit: Karlsson, Ohtamaa, Lajunen, Olimb, Kapanen and Jormakka. SKA: Ezhov, Yudin, Yakovlev, Barabanov, Koskiranta and Kovalchuk
Jokerit lost last meeting agaist SKA 6-3, so it will be hard fight tonight
Tonight Jokerit meets SKA St.Petersburgh here in Hartwall Arena, Helsinki