Rikard Grönborg has been in the headlines this season because of his judge comments. Matti Raivio / AOP
Tappara’s head coach Rikard Grönborg had a surprising angle of entry into the opening match of the Ilves semi-final that ended in a 0-4 loss.
Grönborg said after the match that he thought Tappara was better than Ilves.
– The result does not match game events. We skated, controlled more reel and created more of a goal expectation, Swedish listed.
Lynx’s head coach Tommi Niemelä wondered at Grönborg’s review.
– I do not fully agree that we would have clearly been a worse team in flat. But the quality of our offensive game in flat ones was not what we wanted.
Ilves scored two of his four goals. The first two goals came in the most even field.
– Mentally, we probably were clearly ahead of the opponent. We were strong at those moments when we had to be, Niemelä praised.
“The place of the run”
Grönborg had a matter of two talked -about situations after the match.
According to him Daniel Brickley In the case of an injury To Samuli Ratinen The judgment given was wrong.
– It was a clear place to run.
Ratinen whistled a two -minute penalty for combing right at the start of the second round. Brickley was still trying his game, but the power player was 13.49.
Ratinen hit Brickely’s foot in a situation at the end of the trough. The Yankee kit was led from the ice to the locker room.
At the end of the second round Veli-Matti Savinainen took two cools, during which Ilves scored two goals and moved to a 4-0 lead.
– The prevention was clear, but [Simon] Johansson It started, so it should have come to the lynx, Grönborg saw.
The Tampere Local Series will continue on Friday with Tappara’s home match.