Novokuznetsk – Medvescak | 3:5 (end) | | | Novosibirsk – HC Yugra | 7:1 (end) | | | Avangard – HC Slovan | 3:4 (end) |
Barys – Avtomobilist | 3:4 (end) | | | Traktor – Riga | 3:0 (end) | | | CSKA – Cherepovets | 5:2 (end) |
HC Pilsen – Třinec | 1:2 (end) | | | K. Vary – Liberec | 1:5 (end) | | | Pardubice – Sparta | 2:3 (end) |
Kometa Brno – Mountfield HK | 3:1 (end) | | | Vitkovice – Chomutov | 2:3 (end) | | | Mlada Boleslav – Olomouc | 0:2 (end) |
Litvínov – Zlín | 3:6 (end) |
Vienna – Kuopio | 1:3 (end) | | | Tappara – Mannheim | 2:1 (end) | | | IFK Helsinki – Esbjerg | 7:0 (end) |
Sheffield – Salzburg | 5:2 (end) |
Canada – USA | 5:2 (end) |
final
Tappara Tampere
2:1
(2:0, 0:1, 0:0)
Adler Mannheim
Leo Runsas
Goals and assists:
1. Haapala (Elorinne, Karjalainen), 20. Savinainen (Jasu, Peltola) – 26. Kink (Johnson, Sparre)
Referees: Smetana (AUT), Kaukokari – Nieminen, Pesonen (All FIN)
Attendance: 3452
Penalty missed:
Tappara Tampere:
Hrachovina (Lassila) – Kemiläinen, Elorinne, Saravo, Rantakari, Salonen, Tuhkanen, Rouhiainen – Lajunen, Haapala, Karjalainen, Savinainen, Ilomäki, Peltola, Nurmi, Röymark, Järvinen, Rauhala, Heikkilä, Jasu, Honkanen
Subs:
Coach:
Adler Mannheim: Endras (Ziffzer) – Johnson, Richmond, Akdag, Carle, Reul, Goc N., Bittner – Festerling, Kolarik, Wolf, Kink, Goc M., Sparre, Raedeke, Plachta, Tardif, Ullman, Arendt, Hofflin, Joudrey
Subs:
Coach:
Subs:
Coach:
Adler Mannheim: Endras (Ziffzer) – Johnson, Richmond, Akdag, Carle, Reul, Goc N., Bittner – Festerling, Kolarik, Wolf, Kink, Goc M., Sparre, Raedeke, Plachta, Tardif, Ullman, Arendt, Hofflin, Joudrey
Subs:
Coach:
Referees: Smetana (AUT), Kaukokari – Nieminen, Pesonen (All FIN)
Attendance: 3452
Simply, Tappara have to win in regulation time, otherwise the Liiga Champions will go out of the competition. Mannheim are through with at least an OT loss because they have a better head-to-head against the Finns. Tappera have failed to win at home this season in the CHL, while Mannheim are without a point on the road – making it all the more intriguing.
Tappara Tampere: Hrachovina (Lassila) – Kemiläinen, Elorinne, Saravo, Rantakari, Salonen, Tuhkanen, Rouhiainen – Lajunen, Haapala, Karjalainen, Savinainen, Ilomäki, Peltola, Nurmi, Röymark, Järvinen, Rauhala, Heikkilä, Jasu, Honkanen.
Adler Mannheim: Endras (Ziffzer) – Johnson, Richmond, Akdag, Carle, Reul, Goc N., Bittner – Festerling, Kolarik, Wolf, Kink, Goc M., Sparre, Raedeke, Plachta, Tardif, Ullman, Arendt, Hofflin, Joudrey.
Referees: Smetana (AUT), Kaukokari – Nieminen, Pesonen (All FIN).
A quick start to Tappara! Aleksi Elorinne shoots from blue line and HENRIK HAAPALA sticks it to net from back post! Other assist to Jere Karjalainen.
VELI-MATTI SAVINAINEN shoots from straight skating from point and Endras can't catch it. Juhani Jasu and Jukka Peltola get the assists.
Puck is played to the front of the goal where MARCUS KINK sweeps it in. Assisted by Aaron Johnson and Daniel Sparre.
Martin Roymark and Teemu Nurmi are the best!
- Of course we keep CHL in high value. We had a tough group, both Lugano and Mannheim are surely top teams of their own leagues. Getting to the play-offs especially from this group was a good performance.
Mannheim gave a tough battle to Tappara and both teams had their opportunities in the game. Tapola gave credit to the German team.
- When you look at Mannheim's style of play, coaching and everything, you can see that they are a really high-quality team to play against.
Tapola also agreed with the media that the game varied quite much.
- We responded to their combat playing well. We were clearly better in the first period. The second period was messed up a little by the penalties. Third period was mainly good but our own attacking was sometimes such that it created chances to the opponent.
Power play was one of the most positive points of the game.
- Most of our players played an excellent game today. Our power play was quite good today. We had good foundations there but lacked results. The penalties were partly justifiable and some were interpretations but that is what this is going to be.
CHL's play-off draw will be held in Helsinki next monday. Tapola told that he is mainly thinking about the travel issues, not that much about the opponent.
- Travelling is of course an issue now that the Liiga-season approaches. Hopefully we get an opponent which resides within an easy travel. We as a team hope for a good and tough opponent.
- We are of course disappointed that we lost. Tappara played a good and disciplined game. They had a better first period than we did tonight and they deserved to win.
The game was a neck-to-neck battle throughout the game and special teams along with physical playing were the big issues. Simpson gave credit to Mannheim's penalty killing and physicality even though power play wasn't as excellent.
- I think that our penalty killing was very good. It was a hard-fought game, like a play-off game. In the physical game we had no difficulties.
Mannheim's this year's CHL ended in group stage. Simpson liked the whole experience very much and eagerly awaits for a new shot in the tournament.
- CHL is a good tournament. I am a believer in CHL and I'm positive about it. I think that it's a good thing that club teams play against each other all over Europe. It's a good variable and a good advertisement to club ice hockey. I'll very happily come back next year if possible. (22:16:29)