Helsinski
Nizhny Novgorod
End of game
Stats of 3rd period: Shots: 25-7 ; Shots on goal: 15-3 ; Goals: 3-1 ; Faceoffs won: 13-10 ; Blocked shots: 0-2 ; Hits: 7-7 ; Foul against: 3-1 ; Penalty in minutes: 10-57
End of 3 period
Penalty. Jokerit. 39. Kapanen Niko 4 min. Roughing
Penalty. Jokerit. 18. Joensuu Jesse 4 min. Roughing
Penalty. Torpedo. 33. Dvurechensky Nikita 4 min. Roughing
Penalty. Torpedo. 89. Potapov Alexei 4 min. Roughing
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 1. Karlsson Henrik. Torpedo: empty net.
Goal: Torpedo. 89. Potapov Alexei assists: 26. Videll Linus, 33. Dvurechensky Nikita
Even strength.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 1. Karlsson Henrik. Torpedo: 73. Proskuryakov Ilya.
Kozun nails it into the empty net.
Quite exciting end we have. Torpedo's net is empty..
Two minutes remaining of the third period.
Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 1. Karlsson Henrik. Torpedo: empty net.
Very good was that box play by Jokerit.
Teams at full strength.
Torpedo at full strength and on power play.
Penalty. Jokerit. 18. Joensuu Jesse 2 min. Slashing
Joensuu at the corner, goalie saves and Jesse hits to gk's fingers. Gets penalty.
Jaakola's slap shot saved by Proskuryakov.
Penalty. Torpedo. 21. Osipov Maxim 2 min. Hooking
Torpedo's coach who was sent to shower is lurking at the corridor just behind the bench. Shown on the jumbo and audience didn't like that.
Teams at full strength.
Larsen ties the game.
Torpedo's coach also out with game miscondut penalty. He was showing that there was diving...
Penalty. Torpedo. Team penalty 20 min. Game Misconduct Penalty
Five minute penalty is served by 52, Nikolai Zherdev.
Penalty. Torpedo. 16. Daugavins Kaspars 20 min. Game Misconduct Penalty
Penalty. Torpedo. 16. Daugavins Kaspars 5 min. Boarding
Some big hit on the ice and Jokerit player is down. Neither of refs saw that, hopefully linesman tells that there needs to be big penalty.
Joensuu, GK saves.
Now is the Moment for Jokerit on power play.
Penalty. Torpedo. 18. Sergiyenko Yury 2 min. Tripping
Regin all alone at the net, shoots towards GK.
Dvurechensky shoots straight to Karlsson's lap.
Larsens wrister from the line goes wide.
Kostitsyn shoots fiercly, goes wide.
Attendance today is 9371, more than on Sunday's first game.
Begin of 3 period
Third period starts soon. Jokerit needs to get their playing better if they want to win this game.
This period was clearly Torpedo's. Even though game stayed long times at Torpedo's end, Jokerit had difficoulties to get to scoring zone.
Saves on second: Proskuryakov 10, Karlsson 6.
Stats of 2nd period: Shots: 16-11 ; Shots on goal: 10-7 ; Goals: 0-1 ; Faceoffs won: 16-4 ; Blocked shots: 1-4 ; Hits: 9-8 ; Foul against: 0-0 ; Penalty in minutes: 0-0
End of 2 period
One minute remaining of the second period.
Clever pass by Regin, Joensuu can't score fom that.
Makarov is angry for some reason and Joensuu gets some roughing at the net... No penalties.
Budkin shoots from the line, Karlsson saves.
Osipov from the blue line, Karlsson saves.
Talaja gets suddenly the puck and shoots, Proskuryakov saves to fish nets. And finally linesmen noticed that and the face off is at the right zone.
Aaltonen through, tries slap shot again. No good this time.
Frolov at the net, Karlsson holds Jokerit in the game.
Weird moment to take timeout. Maybe since Torpedo just iced the puck and needed some rest...
Timeout. Torpedo.
Zherdev was all alone at hashmarks and got a good shot. And into the net it went.
Goal: Torpedo. 52. Zherdev Nikolai assists: 10. Galuzin Vladimir, 26. Videll Linus
Even strength.
Just learned, one of our statistic guys has his 50th birthday today. Gongrats to him.
Begin of 2 period
What to say of first period... Both teams had their moments. Torpedo was better to the first goal. Jokerit got their play together after Torpedo goal and the end of the period was Jokerit's.
Regin had a great spot just seconds before the period ended. Somehow he got the puck past the net.
Saves on first period: Proskuryakov 9, Karlsson 5.
Stats of 1st period: Shots: 17-11 ; Shots on goal: 10-6 ; Goals: 1-1 ; Faceoffs won: 7-10 ; Blocked shots: 1-2 ; Hits: 6-5 ; Foul against: 0-1 ; Penalty in minutes: 2-0
End of 1 period
One minute remaining of the first period.
Lajunen shoots, GK saves.
That goal started from the won face off and huge slap shot by Jaakola from the line. Goalie couldn't close the puck and after rebouns Kapanen got it into the net.
Pelletier got the puck after rebound and had a great possibility to score. But Prosuyakov saves.
Kennedy went all the way through but couldn't lift the puck over GK's pad.
Lajunen shoots hard, way wide.
Quite nice was Torpedo's PP, Jokerit held that one.
Teams at full strength.
Alyaev shoots from the line, easy for Karlsson to save.
Penalty. Jokerit. 39. Kapanen Niko 2 min. Tripping
Sallinen passes puck to the net, Torpedo's defender almost plays the puck into the own net.
Game flows from one end to another end, nothing to report so far.
Plenty of empty seats in the Arena, less than 10 000 spectators is my guess.
Game is on and first whistle is offside after eight seconds.
Begin of 1 period
Goalkeeper:
1. Karlsson Henrik (Jokerit).
73. Proskuryakov Ilya (Torpedo).
Begin of game
The name of Torpedo's goalkeeper is quite long and it is hard to write quickly. I might refer to him as goalie or GK during the game...
Referees today: Eduard Odins, Yury Tsyplakov; linesmen: Stanislav Raming, Yakov Palei; stand by referee: Alexei Anisimov
Teams will start the game with following line ups:
Torpedo: GK Proskuryakov, LD Alyaev, RD Yegorshev, LW Frolov, C Semin, RW Daugavins
Jokerit: GK Karlsson, LD Jensen, RD Larsen, LW Joensuu, C Regin, RW Kozun
Torpedo won the first game and Jokerit needs a win today if they want to win this serie.
About 45 minutes and the second play off game between Jokerit and Torpedo from Nizny Novgorod starts.