Tappara is progressing step by step towards the Finnish championship.
Anton Levtchi is having a good spring. The winger has produced 3+7 power points in ten relegation games. TOMI NATRI / AOP
Tampere’s Tappara won the second final with 2–0. Otto Rauhala and Waltteri Merelä were the team’s scorers.
The game was entertaining and sometimes hot.
– We had a good entry. We put up with a lot today. The solution was to score two goals more than the guy. We had to defend more today than in the first final, thanks to Anton Levtchi, who started the season in the Florida Panthers NHL organization, and from there moved to Tappara.
Hot Heljanko
Both goalkeepers played brilliantly on Friday. Lahti’s Patrik Bartosak saved 20 times, Tapparan Christian Heljanko got to the black road 26 times.
– The team defended well and Heljanko is a good goalkeeper. But in the future we have to defend even better, Levtchi, who scored 3+7 power points in the playoffs, continued.
Tappara was surprisingly hot throughout the match and took three second places. In addition, a couple of judges got through on Friday night in Lahti.
Ben Thomas rolled Ben Blood ugly, got 5+20 minutes and the Canadian’s game ended towards the end of the opening set.
– I don’t know what is the reason for the freezes. The Pelicans moved well and we got fouled, that’s about it.
The series is finished
Christian Heljanko plays for Tappara in the Finnish championship. TOMI NATRI / AOP
Tappara leads the final series with a 2–0 victory. Many are already ready to extend the Canadian toast to Axebreasts.
– Let’s enjoy this victory for about three minutes. On Saturday, we will start the game from scratch again, this will not change the situation. There will be a good workout in the morning and at 5 pm Tappara must be ready, we will try to be ready, the 27-year-old attacker said.
– We try to get good energy at the start and skate a lot. You have to enjoy every moment. It will probably hurt again and a lot will happen in the game.
Tappara played for more than a week before the final series, Pelicans’ break was almost a week long. Now we play two days in a row.
The league was not completely successful in preparing a series program this spring.