End of game

Game stats: Shots: 41-60 ; Shots on goal: 20-34 ; Goals: 2-6 ; Faceoffs: 18-31 ; Blocked shots: 13-5 ; Hits: 17-10 ; Time on Attack: 07:49-13:37 ; Penalty: 39-10

Saves on third: Hellberg 6, Kalnins 8.

Stats of 3rd period: Shots: 12-16 ; Shots on goal: 7-9 ; Goals: 1-1 ; Faceoffs: 9-10 ; Blocked shots: 3-1 ; Hits: 5-4 ; Time on Attack: 02:30-04:00 ; Penalty: 6-4

End of 3 period

Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 98. Kalnins Janis. SKA: 45. Hellberg Magnus.

Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 98. Kalnins Janis. SKA: empty net.

Two minutes remaining of the third period.

Grant, then Moses, Hellberg had some luck with those saves.

Game flows from end to end quite speedily at the moment.

Lepistö puts the puck into the net from the line.

Teams are at full strength.

Teams are at full strength.

Jokerit at full strengt.

Teams play at even strength for a while after Yakupov dive.

Begin of 3 period

Saves on second period: Hellberg 4, Zapolski 4, Kalnins 8.

Stats of 2nd period: Shots: 11-21 ; Shots on goal: 5-15 ; Goals: 1-3 ; Faceoffs: 3-11 ; Blocked shots: 2-1 ; Hits: 6-3 ; Time on Attack: 02:21-05:11 ; Penalty: 31-4

End of 2 period

One minute remaining of the second period.

Manninen is hurt after own player´s shot hits him on the leg or foot.

Teams are at full strength.

Last penalties are co-insidental and are not on the clock. Situation on the is is four on five.

Anttila gives some hope for Jokerit.

SKA is punishing Jokerit quite strongly for the penalties now.

Goalkeeper changed. Jokerit: 98. Kalnins Janis. SKA: 45. Hellberg Magnus.

Lauridsen´s 5 min penalty is served by #6 Jesse Joensuu.

SKA scores on power play and there is some fighting afterwords.

Not too much to report of that Jokerit power play. SKA player through right afterwords and Jormakka slashes himself into the box.

Teams are at full strength.

Gusev skates "through" Zapolski´s stick and Zapo loses the stick - Gusev gets penalized for his doings.

SKA is playing quite strongly at the moment and Jokerit is having some troubles.

Lauridsen shoots well, no goal.

Second periods have been quite strong for Jokerit during this season. Now they need a strong second period to hang on this game quite a lot. Let´s see...

Begin of 2 period

Saves on first period: Hellberg 8, Zapolski 8.

Stats of 1st period: Shots: 18-23 ; Shots on goal: 8-10 ; Goals: 0-2 ; Faceoffs: 6-10 ; Blocked shots: 8-3 ; Hits: 6-3 ; Time on Attack: 02:58-04:26 ; Penalty: 2-2

End of 1 period

One minute remaining of the first period.

Teams are at full strength.

Belov from the good spot, Zapolksi saves.

SKA at full strength.

Koskiranta was on kind of breakthrough, Moses hooks him and goes into the box. SKA was asking for penalty shot but ref thought the penalty would be enough.

Quite nicely goes Jokerit power play, quite well is SKA playing box play too.

Manninen´s shot saved easily by Hellberg.

Lepistö´s wrister stops to the wall of players.

Fierce shot by Gavrikov, pad save by Zapolski.

Platt directs the puck at own end, lucky for him puck goes high.

Koskiranta wrister at Jokerit end, wide.

Lepistö´s shot hits Ketov´s hand and it seems to hurt. Needs ice on the bench.

Lepistö´s shot from the line is good, good is also Hellberg´s save.

Anttila checks Hersley and audience likes.

There is good noise in the arena since there is quite big bunch of SKA fans at the north end of arena. And of course south end is crowded with Jokerit fans. Both are noisy today and that is good.

25 seconds played and Dergachyov slides puck into the net.

Begin of 1 period

Goalkeeper:
30. Zapolski Ryan (Jokerit).
45. Hellberg Magnus (SKA).

Begin of game

Teams will start the game with following lineups:

SKA: GK Hellberg, LD Gavrikov, RD Hersley, LW Gusev, C Datsyuk, RW Yakupov

Jokerit: GK Zapolski, LD Kivistö, RD Lepistö, LW Joensuu, C Norman, RW O´Neill

Saturday afternoon and Jokerit is playing against SKA from St. Petersburg. Welcome SKA.