Avtomobilist – Novokuznetsk | 2:1 (end) | | | HC Yugra – Novosibirsk | 2:1 (3:2 after SO) | | | Cherepovets – CSKA | 2:1 (end) |
Litvínov – Vienna | 2:2 (after OT) | | | Skellefteå – Košice | 3:0 (end) | | | Tappara – Vitkovice | 2:1 (end) |
TPS – JYP | 4:1 (end) | | | Kärpät – Düsseldorf | 3:0 (end) | | | Linköping – Liberec | 3:6 (end) |
Växjö – Djurgården | 3:3 (end) | | | Storhamar – Salzburg | 3:2 (end) | | | Stavanger – Eisbären | 3:3 (end) |
Frölunda – Ingolstadt | 4:1 (after OT) | | | HV71 – Třinec | 3:1 (end) | | | Mannheim – Blues | 3:2 (end) |
Munich – Lukko | 0:3 (end) | | | Zürich – Sparta | 0:3 (end) | | | Davos – IFK Helsinki | 5:2 (end) |
Luleå – Färjestad | 1:3 (end) |
final
Tappara Tampere
2:1
(1:0, 1:1, 0:0)
Leo Runsas
Lassi Seppä
Goals and assists:
20. Peltola (Saravo, Dixon), 37. Järvinen (Kuusela, Aalto) – 29. Olesz (Strapac)
Referees: Grumsen (DEN), Fonselius – Puolakka, Pesonen (All FIN)
Attendance: 2097
Penalty missed:
Tappara Tampere:
Noronen (Karhunen) – Saravo, Aalto, Plastino, Bonsaksen, Kankaanperä, Elorinne, Mäkinen – Lajunen, Haapala, Kuusela – Savinainen, Ilomäki, Laine – Dixon, Järvinen, Peltola – Honkanen, Karjalainen, Kaksonen – Rauhala.
Subs:
Coach:
Vítkovice Ostrava: Dolejs (Kantor) – Ceresnak, Kudelka, Sloboda, Klok, Pastor, Kovar, Puzic, Stencel – Strapac, Olesz, Szturc – Nemec, Kucsera, Kolouch – Zdrahal, Balan, Burger – Hlinka, Huzevka, Vandas.
Subs:
Coach:
Subs:
Coach:
Vítkovice Ostrava: Dolejs (Kantor) – Ceresnak, Kudelka, Sloboda, Klok, Pastor, Kovar, Puzic, Stencel – Strapac, Olesz, Szturc – Nemec, Kucsera, Kolouch – Zdrahal, Balan, Burger – Hlinka, Huzevka, Vandas.
Subs:
Coach:
Referees: Grumsen (DEN), Fonselius – Puolakka, Pesonen (All FIN)
Attendance: 2097
Tappara's Liiga-season has seen its ups and downs. The team is seventh at the moment in the league and trails Lukko, which leads, by four points. More can be expected from the team.
Tappara's leading scorer's have been Kristian Kuusela in Liiga and Jan-Mikael Järvinen in CHL. Tomi Karhunen has been the goalkeeper in most games but Mika Noronen has had some high-quality games under his belt too.
Vitkovice's season in Czech Extraliga has been difficult too. They are only the tenth team at the moment in the standings and trail the leading team Plzen by nine points. More can be expected from them too.
Vitkovice's leading scorer has been Rostislav Olesz in Extraliga and Petr Strapac in CHL. Pavel Kantor has had the main responsibility on goal.
The game will start at 18.30 EET (17.30 CET). This will be a close one as most of the others too so don't miss it!
Tappara Tampere: Noronen (Karhunen) – Saravo, Aalto, Plastino, Bonsaksen, Kankaanperä, Elorinne, Mäkinen – Lajunen, Haapala, Kuusela – Savinainen, Ilomäki, Laine – Dixon, Järvinen, Peltola – Honkanen, Karjalainen, Kaksonen – Rauhala.
Vítkovice Ostrava: Dolejs (Kantor) – Ceresnak, Kudelka, Sloboda, Klok, Pastor, Kovar, Puzic, Stencel – Strapac, Olesz, Szturc – Nemec, Kucsera, Kolouch – Zdrahal, Balan, Burger – Hlinka, Huzevka, Vandas.
Referees: Grumsen (DEN), Fonselius – Puolakka, Pesonen (All FIN).
Tappara's captain JUKKA PELTOLA gets the puck on blue line and shoots the opening goal of the game from Daniel Dolejs's five-hole! Assisted by Pekka Saravo, Stephen Dixon. 1-0 and aggregate is 3-0.
Vitkovice ties the game as ROSTISLAV OLESZ skates from the middle and shoots a wrister past Tappara's Mika Noronen. Assisted by Petr Strapac. 1-1 (agg. 3-1)
Tappara takes an attacking zone face-off win, and JAN-MIKAEL JÄRVINEN gets the puck on the net. From Daniel Dolejs' back the puck bounces in.
Assisted by Kristian Kuusela and Teemu Aalto. 2-1 (agg. 4-1)
- We started the game with the same strategy as in the last game. We tried not to let them score in the first period, but they did just before the period ended, commented Zdenek Januriek, the chief of communications for team Vitkovice.
- In the second period we started to give Tappara more pressure with 2-3 players forecheck. That helped us score our goal and gave us a few more chances to turn the game to our side, said Januriek.
- Both games were tight match-ups, and Tappara got the needed advantage because they're more exprerienced team. We scored just one goal in six periods. It's way too few to win a series like this, Januriek noted.
- This was a good experience for our team to see how such tough team as Tappara is plays such games. We'll improve our game for the next season for CHL, promised Januriek.
Tappara's assistant coach Marko Ojanen was happy with a positive result on the game, and the series.
- The first period was a good solid performance on our team. On second period we got a lot of power-play chances, but managed to score only once.
- The third period was almost like we just tried to finish the game as quickly as possible, said Ojanen.
Tappara's next opponent comes from Sweden. Ojanen opened Tappara's near future a little.
- It's sure now that we're going to Sweden. But next we'll concentrate on a tough match on our national league, as last years champion Kärpät comes to visit us.
When asked if Tappara might have to chance something in their own game Ojanen replied:
- The next round will surely be different. Vitkovice played a lot of trap in the middle, when swedish teams come more likely to aggressive forecheck. Swedish players are also more developed skaters.
Ojanen doesn't see that CHL and national league would make teams every day life any more difficult.
- It's good variation. We get a lot of tough international match-ups in between the national league games, pointed Ojanen. (20:49:46)