TPS reduced the wins of the final series to 1–3 by defeating Tappara in Turku 1–0.
Jussi Eskola
- Defender Elmeri Eronen shot the only goal of the match.
- The final series will continue on Thursday in Tampere. The championship is still interrupted for Tappara.
The fourth match of the final series is approaching the end of the third round in an unbeaten draw. The championship is intermittent for visitor Tappara, but TPS is fighting.
The audience of more than 10,000 people in Turku’s Gatorade arena, in turn, is fiercely encouraging and, in turn, is quietly biting their nails out of excitement.
No one knows how much league is left in 2021-22. It can be over in minutes or continue over the day.
There are less than seven minutes left in the third round when the start is in Tappara’s defensive area.
TPS: n Mitch Hults scratches the starter. Aarne Intonen gets to the puck first and continues with its defender Elmeri Erosellewho takes a couple of kicks in and rises to the draw: 1-0 and the crowd explodes into an infernal scream.
Andrei Karejev keeps the Turku goal clean until the end, a little final will end the hot match for the home win – and everything is still open.
Knife with throat
Jussi Eskola
TPS kept his captain’s promise.
– I can’t promise a result, but I promise we’ll do our best, Juhani Jasu told Iltalehti on Monday night after the third final loss.
The team takes it for granted, and it came from there.
– We go game by game and we win game by game, 20-year-old Intonen, who is playing a great breakthrough, said after the game that he was remarkably calm compared to what kind of emotional storm the team had just gone through.
TPS played, so to speak, with a knife in his throat, which could not help but bring pressure.
– Of course, Inton admitted.
The set-up was highlighted during the second break, when TPS knew he was basically a goal away from the silver and summer holidays – and correspondingly a goal away from the fact that the championship goal is still alive.
However, the team did not leave for fear of defeat and did not go to the plaster.
– More experienced players were in the voice, Intonen said, mentioning Jasun and the Deputy Captain Ville Lajusen.
Their key message was that the team needs to play with their strengths.
– Let’s be brave and pressured. We already played the first two rounds, and then it finally paid off.
Intonen was building the result himself.
– A little that disc was left to rotate after the start. Then instead I lined it up and went towards the goal, he repeated his foreplay, which included the feed and the mask.
– Good temperance and good traction from the “cat”. Important paint.
Erosen’s nickname comes from his father, who has played an extensive career From Kimmo Erosen, known as a cat – like skater. No boy is left behind in skills, and the goal was third for Elmeri Erone in these players.
Jussi Eskola
Turku residents
TPS has more than a dozen players from Turku, including Eronen and Intonen.
It tends to lift the spirit and commitment of the young team.
– Of course it works. Everyone is good friends with each other, and has been known and played on the same team since childhood. It’s easier to play when you know the team better, said Intonen, who is the fourth best scorer in the playoffs at 3 + 5 = 8.
Miracle trick
The final series will continue on Thursday in Tampere.
TPS is trying to do a trick that has never been successful in the League finals once again, that is, to get behind and past behind three losses.
In the history of playoff, the miracle has been seen once, when the Espoo Blues defeated KalPa 4–3 in the semi-finals ten years ago.
– We have to go to Tampere to pick up the robbery. The first will be taken on Thursday, Intonen assured.