Kärpät – Köln 3:2 (after SO) | Pardubice – Linköping 3:6 (end) | Lukko – Nottingham 6:2 (end)
Salzburg – JYP 4:0 (end) | Kloten – HV71 0:5 (end) | Bolzano – TPS 4:2 (end)
Djurgården – Eisbären 3:2 (end) | Luleå – Hamburg 6:0 (end)
after shootout
Kärpät Oulu
3:2 (0:0, 0:2, 2:0 - 0:0)
Kölner Haie
Friday 05.09.2014, 17:30 • Oulun Energia-Areena • Champions League
     
    Game over. (20:12:37)
     
    Kärpät Oulu has won after the penalty shoot-out. JOONAS DONSKOI finishes the race for Kärpät. .
     
    JOONAS DONSKOI finishes the race for Kärpät. Kärpät wins it after the penalties.
     
    Iiro Tarkki saves again. Iggulden did not score.
     
    Mika Pyörälä is unsuccessful and the games continue.
     
    Tarkki beats Johnson and no goal.
     
    Kärpät with a surprising move. Iiro Tarkki skates in between the pipes.
     
    Joonas Donskoi again with an absolute beauty. We shall continue the competition.
     
    Igulden from Köln is successful.
     
    Falk from Köln is the next player up. He does not score as Karhunen makes a nice save.
     
    Patrick Davis from Kärpät. No goal.
     
    Christopher Minard with a hard slapper and it is a goal.
     
    Joonas Kemppainen is next. He does not score.
     
    Gogulla of Köln does not score.
     
    16-years old supertalent Jesse Puljujärvi gets a shot and utilizes it. 3-2.
     
    John Tripp ties it again as he beats Karhunen five hole.
     
    Mika Pyörälä is next shooter and another goal!
     
    Jamie Johnson is the next one. Another beauty leaves no chance for Karhunen and it is a tie game.
     
    Joonas Donskoi shoots first. Absolute beauty and it is a goal.
     
    Start of shootout.
     
    Overtime finished. We will see some penalties here in Oulu. Both teams have five shooters first. If the game is still even after five pairs, the competition continues with a sudden death method.
     
    64:52
    Kärpät takes a time out.

     
    62:55
    Köln finishes quick attack with sharp shot. No goal and the game continues.
     
    62:30
    Half of the overtime played already. Kärpät remains in hold of the puck.
     
    61:29
    Ivan Huml steals the puck from Köln defence and the puck finds its way to Mika Pyörälä. Quick release but no result this time.
     
    60:51
    No scoring chances early on the overtime.
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    We have no winner after 60 minutes so we are going to overtime.
     
    58:35
    Julius Junttila sends a bouncing puck towards the Köln goalie. Aus den Birken still has no trouble of clearing it.
     
    57:36
    Uwe Krupp uses the timeout of his team.
     
    57:20
    Hard shot from Deschamps after Reifers had a bad loss in the center.
     
    56:20
    Nicolas Deschamps gives an airy pass to Mika Pyörälä who bats it from the air towards Aus den Birken. No goal.
     
    55:35
    Julius Junttila with a nice scoring chance but Aus den Birken makes the save with his pad.
     
    54:00
    And the Kärpät pressure continues. Masuhr tries again. The home crowd gives Kärpät big support at the moment.
     
    52:45
    Goal for Kärpät!
    It is ADAM MASUHR who rips an absolute bomb past Aus den Birken. Ryan Glenn gives a pass and Masuhr continues with a onetimer. The game is 2-2 now. Assisted by: Ryan Glenn, Joonas Komulainen.
     
    52:05
    Kärpät is creating huge pressure and the home crowd is starting to wake up.
     
    51:38
    John Tripp gets two minutes and Kärpät has a power play chance.
     
    51:05
    Mikko Niemelä with a great individual effort as he goes around and around the Köln defence zone.
     
    50:00
    10 minutes remaining. Kärpät is creating pressure but Köln has had couple of quick target counter attacks on Kärpät goal.
     
    49:18
    Kärpät keeps the pressure on. Vladimir Eminger shoots from the blue line but Aus den Birken makes a nice save.
     
    48:56
    Joonas Donskoi finishes a counter attack for Kärpät. The back hand shot is not quick enough to beat Aus den Birken.
     
    48:22
    Karhunen stops the play again with his glove. The game is getting really exciting towards to end.
     
    47:50
    The number four line for Kärpät brings some speed to the ice.
     
    47:26
    The play remains in Köln´s offence zone. Karhunen again with the save.
     
    46:41
    Köln creates immidiately after the goal some pressure to Kärpät defence zone. Tomi Karhunen keeps his goal clean this time.
     
    45:42
    Goal for Kärpät! It is JOONAS KEMPPAINEN who opens the scoring for home team. Joonas Donskoi works hard in the corner and gives it to Kemppainen. Hard onetimer leaves no chance for Aus den Birken. 1-2 is the score in favor of Kölner Haie.
     
    43:45
    Kärpät creates a nice scoring chance. Mikko Alikoski shoots hard close to the goal but the home team still remains scoreless.
     
    42:55
    Big hit on boards by Patrick Davis. The home crowd gives him applause.
     
    42:15
    Julius Junttila tries to challenge Kölner defence but this time defence stops the forward easily.
     
    41:17
    Ivan Huml craches to the net but the puck in already under the glove Aus den Birken. Huml gets two minutes as a reward. Charles Stephens gets a penalty as well.
     
    40:01
    Start of 3rd period.
     
    2nd period finished. Kärpät have a big hill to climb in the third period. Köln managed to score twice in the second and has a commanding position in the match at the moment.
     
    37:55
    Things are starting to heat up. Lot of pushing and shoving infront of the goal. Joonas Komulainen from Kärpät gets two minutes and Jamie Johnson from Kölner receives two minute minor and 10 minute conduct.
     
    37:39
    Nice pressure from Kärpät and couple of tries on goal. Aus den Birken remains utbeaten tonight.
     
    30:24
    Goal for Köln!
    It is MARCEL OHMANN this time. Quick counter attack from Köln. Reifers makes a nice pass and Ohmann gets to put the puck into a open net. Assisted by: Philip Reifers.
     
    27:34
    Goal for Köln!
    It is PHILIP RIEFERS who gets the goal. It was a unclear situation infront of the goal. The puck bounced everywhere and eventually found its way to the net. They revied the goal from the video but it is a good goal. 0-1 for the away team. Assisted by: Fabio Pfohl, Charles Stephens.
     
    26:12
    Philip Riefers makes shot from bad angle. Tomi Karhunen has no trouble of clearing it.
     
    25:47
    The teams are playing at full strength.
     
    25:11
    John Tripp blocks a hard shot and it sure looks like a painful one. Tripp shakes it off and continues his efforts.
     
    23:47
    Another power play for Kärpät. This time it is Daniel Schmolz who receives the penalty.
     
    23:00
    Quick counter attack by Kärpät. Lasse Kukkonen passes the puck to Mikko Alikoski who makes a deflection. The puck goes just past the cage.
     
    21:34
    Joonas Kemppainen makes a shot on goal but glove save by the Köln goalie.
     
    20:22
    Adam Masuhr tries from bad angle but Aus den Birken manages to keep the puck away from the goal.
     
    20:01
    Start of 2nd period.

     
    1st period finished. We have a scoreless game here in Oulu.
     
    19:03
    Teams are playing at full strength.
     
    17:03
    Power play for Kärpät. Marcel Müller gets two minutes for hooking.
     
    16:40
    Fabio Pfohl shoots from the point but Tomi Karhunen makes a nice glove save.
     
    16:00
    Köln is creating some pressure late in the period. Only thing missing is shots.
     
    12:02
    Teams are playing at full strength.
     
    11:05
    Hard shot on goal from Kärpät defenceman Ryan Glenn but not enough traffic infront of the net.
     
    10:02
    Another power play for Kärpät. Christopher Minard is the sentenced player.
     
    Teams are playing at full strength.
     
    07:00
    John Tripp drives to the net hard and tries to put puck into the cage but just wide.
     
    06:20
    Julius Junttila breaks away immidiately from the Kölner Haie defence but Danny Aus den Birken gets the better of him.
     
    06:17
    Kärpät forward Joonas Donskoi is sentenced for two minutes. First power play for the away team tonight.
     
    02:41
    Teams are playing at full strength. Kärpät created some nice pressure but no goal.
     
    00:41
    First penalty for Kölner Haie. Jamie Johnson gets two minutes for hooking.
     
    00:01
    Game started.
     
    The opening line ups are being called to the ice.
     
    Starting lineups:

    Kärpät Oulu: Karhunen (Tarkki) – Kukkonen, Masuhr, Glenn, Spang, Vallin, Niemelä, Eminger – Davis, Deschamps, Pyörälä – Huml, Komulainen, Puljujärvi – Junttila, Kemppainen, Donskoi – Mäenalainen, Keränen, Alikoski.

    Kölner Haie: Aus den Birken (Stefaniszin) – Muller, Riefers, Tjärnqvist, Krupp, Lüdemann, Ankert, Zerressen – Johnson, Minard, Gogulla – Schmolz, Muller, Falk – Stephens, Tripp, Pfohl – Ohmann, Iggulden.

    Referees: T. Björk (SWE), J. Leppänen (FIN) – H. Neva (FIN), H. Sormunen (FIN).
    Kärpat Oulu morning skate. Top prospect Puljujärvi is with them.
     
    The ruling Finnish champion Oulun Kärpät will host Kölner Haie on Friday. This game is the third CHL match for both teams.

    Kärpät has won both games so far. The final score in first game against Liberec was 4-3 in favor of the Finns and in the second one 2-1 against the Slovak team HC Kosice.

    Kölner Haie´s record so far is 1-1. The team managed to beat Kosice in the CHL opening but they did not manage to repeat that effort against Liberec when the Czechs scored the victory 4-3.

    Friday´s game will start at 6:30 pm GMT +2.
     
    Welcome. Game starts at 17:30.
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    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 46. Kemppainen (Donskoi, Junttila), 53. Masuhr (Glenn, Huml), dec. p.s. Donskoi – 28. Reifers (Pfohl, Stephens), 31. Ohmann (Riefers)

    Kärpät Oulu: Karhunen (Tarkki) – Kukkonen, Masuhr, Glenn, Spang, Vallin, Niemelä, Eminger – Davis, Deschamps, Pyörälä – Huml, Komulainen, Puljujärvi – Junttila, Kemppainen, Donskoi – Mäenalainen, Keränen, Alikoski.
    Kölner Haie: Aus den Birken (Stefaniszin) – Muller, Riefers, Tjärnqvist, Krupp, Lüdemann, Ankert, Zerressen – Johnson, Minard, Gogulla – Schmolz, Muller, Falk – Stephens, Tripp, Pfohl – Ohmann, Iggulden.
    Referees: T. Björk (SWE), J. Leppänen (FIN) – H. Neva (FIN), H. Sormunen (FIN)