Vesa Parviainen
Young people have a future, they say, but the league is the present, writes Vesa Parviainen.
Tappara pressed on, but Petteri Rimpinen of Kiekko-Espoo was unprecedented. Matti Raivio / AOP
– The old saying that the goalkeeper is half a team is true in hockey, says Pekka Virta, an expert at Iltalehti.
Another old saying knows that the winning goalkeeper makes the coach a genius.
Kiekko-Espoo coach Jyrki Aho rose to the Einstein class yesterday as the team took a 1-0 victory over Tappara with Petteri Rimpinen’s fantastic goalkeeper game at the first playoff round.
The league season has been so remarkable that even the leadership of the series as a leader in the leader of the series is not to be considered a strange surprise.
And to prevent the wrong image of the events, the disc-espoo is not just hanging on the rhymes. After the opening round, Arttu Tuomaala’s lucky home leadership had been fully deserved.
From the second round, Tappara was better able to pass the Espoo intense centerpiece of Espoo and thereby reach the end hockey and exploitation with better timing.
Towards the end, Tappara pressed more and eventually won the attacking area sovereign 22.35-11.07.
However, Rimpinen won the fight against Filip Lindberg, who also played well from 31-17, and kept his goal clean with the help of the sacrificial defense of field players.
As many as 18 of the Espoo tackles of an Espoo who reads the game came in the final round when Tappara applied for a handicap. In the last three seconds, Rimpinen had to stretch to two tackles.
– After all, this is a new place for myself. I had no league playoffs before this evening, Rimpinen, who plays his debut season, reminded in an interview with MTV.
– It was exciting to start playing, and through that I got a good charge.
Where’s the tune and coping? Mika Saukkonen asked.
– I haven’t been to Ruiss before and now I was, maybe that, Rimpinen replied as Pokka, referring to last summer’s visit to Ruisrock, Turku.
The nickname “Showtime” got more margin again. Rimpinen does not stress in the rink or in front of the media.
In January, Rimpinen, who was selected as the best goalkeeper for the Junior World Cup, is very close to the same title in the league.
His fighting rate of 91.13 was the second best in the regular season after Ace Niklas Rubin, and in the playoffs it is exactly 100.
Of course, it has to be added that for the time being, but it is clear from the opening match that the entire match is culminating in the performance of an 18-year-old sensation guard: how far he can support the hockey Espoo?
Without the Six Gold’s Veli-Matti Savinainen, Tappara’s mask gaming was too tame.
According to rumors, the championship magnet would return to real action in this playoff series after a month’s absence.
Also, the lack of Otto Leskinen, the number one pack, taxed Tappara’s impact on Tuesday.
The other three matches saw one expected home win and two unexpected away wins.
Like the evening of Espoo, both of them were based on the top performance of the young goalkeeper.
Aces kept HPK’s control in Pori with numbers 3-2, but TPS and Sport, who have gone to their own teams as underdogs, are able to get another attachment to the semi -finals today in front of the home audience. Three enough to continue.
TPS drilled a 2-1 victory over Lappeenranta, two hits of two hits and 19-year-old Noa Vali, as many as 37 tackles.
The Turku goalkeeping problem seems to be about to be solved so -called at the time of the Count.
Sport, on the other hand, surprised KooKoo in Kouvola with numbers 3-1, while 18-year-old Masi Härkönen held a round of the highest goal (3.23) in KooKoo in just one goal.
Like Rimpinen, Valo and Härkönen played the first playoff match in their league career.
Even experienced opponents are chewing.
Noa Valo is ready to carry TPS’s number one reference. Tomi Natri / AOP
Sport watchman Masi Härkönen stopped KooKoo in one goal. Jaakko Stenroos / AOP