End of game

Game summary: Shots: 38-58 ; Shots on goal: 21-35 ; Goals: 3-2 ; Faceoffs won: 21-31 ; Blocked shots: 9-7 ; Hits: 29-22 ; Foul against: 6-5 ; Penalty in minutes: 12-12

Saves on third period: Koskinen 2, Zapolski 8.

Stats of 3rd period: Shots: 8-19 ; Shots on goal: 3-8 ; Goals: 1-0 ; Faceoffs won: 8-11 ; Blocked shots: 6-1 ; Hits: 9-6 ; Foul against: 1-1 ; Penalty in minutes: 2-2

End of 3 period

Every time Ilya holds the puck crowd is booing.

Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 30. Zapolski Ryan. SKA: empty net.

Timeout. SKA.

Kovalchuk is trying to warm up Lauridsen...

Two minutes remaining of the third period.

Teams are at full strength.

Kovalchuk tries to reach upper corner but shot goes way wide.

Pihlström and the game is 3-2.

Teams at full strength.

Regin got a shot to his leg and it seems to hurt. Let's hope he is okey.

Salminen, Koskinen catches that shot.

Some spirit or feeling must have been left to locker rooms since at the moment the game isn't as entertaining as it was at the end of 2nd period.

Moses gets a good pass and is on breakthrough. Zapolski makes maybe a gamesaver.

Begin of 3 period

You can see there is some heat on the ice between some players. It might erupt tonight and it is possible we will see some "dances" tonight.

Very entertaingin was the last five minutes of the second period.

Saves on second period: Koskinen 9, Zapolski 15.

Stats of 2nd period: Shots: 17-23 ; Shots on goal: 10-16 ; Goals: 1-1 ; Faceoffs won: 7-8 ; Blocked shots: 3-3 ; Hits: 12-6 ; Foul against: 2-1 ; Penalty in minutes: 2-4

End of 2 period

Barabanov holds and holds the puck. Finally shoots and Z saves.

One minute remaining of the second period.

Huge shot by Huhtala after Regin's pass. Wide and high.

Salminen twice, first is barely saved by Koskinen, second goes wide.

Moses' shot saved by Zapolski.

Kovalchuk steals the puck, shoots twice. Zapolski saves first one, second goes way wide.

Teams at full strenght.

Zapolski gets a shot to his head. And afterwords some roughing and penalties.

Anttila steals the puck, Pihlström gets a good shot, three meter Koskinen saves.

Barabanov from the corner of the net, Zapolski saves.

Huhtala's shot saved by Koskinen.

Pihlström gets an awesome pass from Anttila but he can't make a good shot. Shame on that.

Teams at full strenght.

No offside, goal is good.

Timeout. Jokerit.

There is coach challenge for offside. Let's see if that goal counts.

Hershley scores shorthanded.

Regin gets an open spot and he scores. 2-1.

Begin of 2 period

Saves on first period: Koskinen 7, Zapolski 10.

Stats of 1st period: Shots: 13-16 ; Shots on goal: 8-11 ; Goals: 1-1 ; Faceoffs won: 6-12 ; Blocked shots: 0-3 ; Hits: 8-10 ; Foul against: 3-3 ; Penalty in minutes: 8-6

End of 1 period

Jormakka scores and ties the game.

One minute remaining of the first period.

Teams at full strength.

Voynov shoots, high.

Ketov's shot easily saved by Zapolski.

Teams are at full strength.

Datsuk hits the post.

Some penalties again.

Lajunen shoots from the line. There are some players at front of Koskinen and he has some difficoulties. But saves anyway.

Quite nice pass from Gusev, Shipachev can't get to control of the puck.

Teams at full strength.

Hishon dekes... but loses the puck at the same time.

Datsuk gets an open net and he scores.

Salminen gets a good shot, Koskinen saves that. Just moment before that Chudinov made nice redirection at the other end.

Regin steals the puck behind the net but there is no Jokerit player at the net...

Teams are at full strength.

Arena is almost full today. Some empty seats visible but good crowd today.

Begin of 1 period

Goalkeeper:
30. Zapolski Ryan (Jokerit).
19. Koskinen Mikko (SKA).

Begin of game

Teams will start the game with following lineups:

SKA: GK Koskinen, LD Yakolev, RD Voynov, LW Kovalchuk, C Datsuk, RW Barabanov

Jokerit. GK Zapolski, LD Rissanen, RD Genoway, LW Huhtala, C Regin, RW O'Neill

Day's game is between Jokerit and SKA from St. Petersburg. It's like a local rivalry, so close are Helsinki and St. Petersburg located.