It is Tappara and Pelicans who settle for the gold in the hockey league. On Thursday night, the Pelicans won at home over Ilves with 3–1 and reached the final with 4–2 in games.
The Pelicans are having an excellent season in the FM league in ice hockey. The base series four Pelicans are now in the finals after first knocking out KalPa with 4-3 in the quarter-finals and then Ilves with 4-2 in the semi-finals.
The Lahti team secured their final ticket by defeating Ilves 3–1 at home. The Ilve team won the first semi-final, but then the Pelicans won four out of five games.
The Pelicans got off to a brilliant start in the fifth semi-final when the team took a 3-0 lead after 21.57 through Topias Vilén. Joni Ikonen and Aatu Jämsen accounted for the home team’s two goals in the first period.
Ilves needed 44 minutes to open the scoring account, but the visitors got no closer than a reduction goal by Henrik Haapala.
The final series starts in a week
For the Pelicans, the final series will be the second. In the 2011–12 season, Lahtisklubben had to settle for silver after a 1–4 final loss against JYP.
The success is a big feather in the cap for the 39-year-old head coach Tommi Niemelä, who is in his third season with the Pelicans. I Continued rundringning before the season, nine out of twelve media representatives predicted that the Pelicans would not take a top-10 spot in the regular season.
The Tappara–Pelicans final series begins in just under a week, on Wednesday, April 19. A possible seventh and decisive game will be played on Tuesday, May 2.
The bronze match Ilves–HIFK is scheduled for Thursday, April 20.
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