KalPa aims for the seventh consecutive home victory.
Ville Hämäläinen replaced Pekka Virra behind SaiPa’s bench. Mikko Lieri / AOP
A round of six matches will be played today in the ice hockey SM league. Several teams have a chance to rise to the top of the league with a win.
On Thursday, the head coach Pekka Virran SaiPa, which sent to other countries, surprised Kärpät in the second round. Kristian Pospisil your painting Ville Hämäläinen for the first time under the team. Antoine Morand shot just 40 seconds later already 2–0 for the league jumbo.
Flies Ville Koivunen narrowed it down with a back corner swing at the end of the second period, but Elmeri Laakso pushed SaiPan back to a two-goal lead in the next change.
At home, undefeated KalPa punished by Colby Sissons JYP, who received a backlash from Tappara yesterday, with a power play goal. The visitors leveled at the end of the second period Sami Nikun through the agency of.
In Hämeenlinna, KooKoon was responsible for the only opening goal of the entire round Oskari Manninen. To the end of the second period Ari Grondahl took the people of Kouvola to a two-goal lead.
Lukko, who topped the league, went Harri Kainulainen with a man-of-the-match goal for a 1–0 lead against HIFK. Feelings heated up when Otto Karvinen you tackled Lukon in the head Take Somppi. Karvinen was put out of action and Somppik also left the locker room with his cheek open.
The 1–0 readings also came in Pori, when Jami Virtanen scored his second goal of the season against Jukurei.
The story will be updated as the matches progress.