TPS - JYP on Nelonen this afternoon

This afternoon TPS will meet the leading team, JYP. TPS is 1 point from going to the playoffs but going up against the leading team in the league wont be easy.

This game will be brought to you live this afternoon at 5 a clock from Nelonen so don´t miss it.

Daniel Corso injury has a big impact on Kärpät

Kärpät, one of the leading teams in the SM-Liiga, are having problems because of the first line attacker, Daniel Corso´s injury.

Yesterday Kärpät played against Ässät, who are currently on a 12th place in the SM-Liiga standings. Normally this would be an easy match up for Kärpät since they have an outstanding team but Ässät was dominating and almost won the game. Kärpät won 2-1 on ovetime but are having some difficulties that has to be improved if they want to win the SM-Liiga title.

It is not for sure how long Daniel Corso will be gone but hopefully for Kärpät, he will be back soon. Without him, Kärpät will have a hard time with their incoming games.

Daniel Corso was announced week 9´s hot streak

Kärpäts player, Daniel Corso was announced last weeks #1 hot streak. Jussi Makkonen from HPK came on a second place and Kalle Koskinen came on a third place. Alexander Salak, TPS´s goalkeeper came on a 6th place and Kalpas goalkeeper, Mika Oksa, on a 10th place.

TPS, a rough road to the playoffs

Two games ago, TPS was still within the 10 teams heading for the playoffs. Now they have fallen down to 11th place , and have to win some of the best teams in the league to get back within the top ten.

The next opponent TPS will meet is Blues who is on a 5th place in the league at the moment. After that the will meet Jokerit who is on a 3rd place and JYP who are the current leaders of the SM-Liiga.

TPS will have to play their absolute best to win these teams and get past Pelicans who is the last team to enter the playoffs at the moment.

Teams are fighting for a place in the playoffs

In about 3-4 weeks it will be settled which teams will go to the playoffs in the SM-Liiga.
Ässät is only 6 points behind TPS with 68 points and are fighting for a place in the playoffs. Yeasterday Ässät won 2-0 against Ilves which was a very inportant win for them.

They still have a chance but Lukko is also fighting for the same place as Ässät and have one point more than Ässät so its going to be a battle between these teams.

Lukko is at the moment playing against JYP and leading 3-1 with only 10 minutes left of the game. If they take this win home, they will have 72 points,only 2 points less than TPS and a place in the playoffs.

Helsinki IFK wins away game while Jokerit loses at Hartwall Arena

Kalpa won 2-1 against Jokerit earlier tonight at the Hartwall Arena in Helsinki. All of the goals came in the 3 rd period and Kalle Sahlstedt was the one to lead the home team to a victory.

Helsinki IFK won against Oulun Kärpät in a tight game. They won 3-2 on regular time and keep on winning their away games.

Tomorrow, Friday the 20th of February Jyp will meet Lukko in Rauma.

Toivonen and Nickersson have caught the flu!

Ilves goalkeeper, Hannu Toivonen is sick and it is not clear wether he will play on Thursday or not. He was allready sick in yesterdays game against Saipa. Matt Nickerson is also sick and it is not clear wether he will play tomorrow either.

They both have caught the flu so they are not in a critical condition and they should feel better within a couple of days.

Follow JYP-Kärpät on Canal + tonight in Jyväskylä

Tonight, two of the best teams in the finnish icehockey league are playing against each other.
JYP is currently the leading team in the SM-liiga with 91 points against Kärpät who are on a 5 th place but only 8 points behind.

Both JYP and Kärpät have one of the league´s point leaders witch should make the game interresting. Jarkko Immonen from JYP is on 5th place on the leading board with 49 points and Toni Koivisto is currently the point leader in the league with 56 points.

The game will be showed on Canal + Sport 1 tonight at 6:30 pm finnish time.

I will post an update on tonights game aswell as other games that are played this evening in the finnish icehockey league.