Riku Isokoski
Tappara’s collapse against Ilves culminated in Veli-Matti Savinainen’s fooling, writes Riku Isokoski from Tampere.
Veli-Matti Savinainen’s tricks in the second round bumped into Tappara’s own ankle. Mika Kylmäniemi, AOP
It was a humiliation. Even the subordination.
The first match of the Super Series between Ilves and Tappara revealed in a stupid way, which is a hump plot.
Ilves’ 4-0-year-old victory was a swelling sauna that Tappara has not experienced in the playoffs around.
Tappara’s package spread to the black moment of Veli-Matti Savinainen, known as the miracle of the playoffs, at the end of the second round.
At a critical moment, in a 0-2 loss, Savinainen rolled frustrated by Toni Utusen and immediately stretched to Simon Johansson’s ice.
Two cools were sentenced to this clay, one of the blocking of Utus and the other for violence to Johansson. During these, Ilves scored two goals and sealed the opening game victory.
The Tampere local series threatens to fall as soon as possible. Gamely, Tappara could hardly undermine the lynx who did not shake in a tight spot.
The biggest question mark in Ilves in this series is how it can defeat its spiritual buzz. Last spring’s farce -like collapse in the quarterfinals is still in fresh memory.
Tapparak is still Mörkö for Ilves, even though Ilves has dominated local games in the regular season. These threats seem to be useless.
Based on the opening match, one can say that the rise of Tappara requires a miracle.
For that, the spooky setback was defender Daniel Brickley’s leg injury in the second round. The condition of Brickley, who was in the locker room, looked like he was not returning to the trough for a moment.
Otto Leskinen, another power defender, was already on the sidelines, whose foot broke up in Saturday’s match against Kiekko-Espoo.
Tappara does not withstand any absences of these two defenders. Brickley and Leskinen, who have scored nearly 40 points in the regular season, are by far the best reel defenders of Tappara.
The importance of defenders who play smoothly under pressure has been emphasized in modern hockey. Without the power of power, Tappara will become more and more on long defense heads, which consume energy and cause cold.
The difference in energy seems to be decisive in the Tampere series. Tappara’s first round against Kiekko-Espoo was very consuming for it and could not breathe.
There is no confusion that Ilves is a much fresher team. In addition, it plays with strong self -confidence.
It seems strongly that the high thriller like spring 2017 is not seen in Tampere now. Ilves is stronger in every way than Tappara.