Summary of week twenty-five

03/08/2008 - PM

This summary includes games from two different weeks, last week and this Tuesday’s games. Now that each team has played 56 games, the regular season is over and play-offs begin.

Results:

26.02. HPK-Tappara 2-3
26.02. Ilves-Blues 4-3
26.02. Jokerit-KalPa 5-1
26.02. Kärpät-Pelicans 5-3
26.02. SaiPa-Ässät 3-1
26.02. TPS-JYP OT 2-3
27.02. Lukko-HIFK 0-2
28.02. JYP-HPK 4-0
28.02. Lukko-Pelicans 2-3
28.02. Tappara-SaiPa 1-0
28.02. TPS-Ilves 2-5
28.02. Ässät-Jokerit 1-5
29.02. HIFK-Kärpät 6-4
01.03. HPK-KalPa 3-1
01.03. Jokerit-Blues 0-3
01.03. JYP-Ilves 6-3
01.03. Lukko-Kärpät 3-5
01.03. Pelicans-HIFK 1-3
01.03. SaiPa-TPS 2-5
01.03. Tappara-Ässät 4-1
02.03. Blues-KalPa 4-1
04.03. Blues-Tappara 2-1
04.03. HIFK-TPS 3-2
04.03. Ilves-Lukko 5-2
04.03. KalPa-SaiPa 3-1
04.03. Kärpät-Jokerit OT 3-2
04.03. Pelicans-JYP 1-4
04.03. Ässät-HPK 3-5

The last games were meaningful for Jokerit, Tappara, Pelicans and JYP from the top six teams. Jokerit and Tappara battled for the third spot as Pelicans and JYP did the same for the fifth position. The battle for the winner's spot was taken place on the first Tuesday when Kärpät won Blues ensuring the win for the team.

HIFK and Ilves had also ensured their position, but TPS and Lukko had only one point difference before last Tuesday. However, both teams lost their last game making no difference to their placements.

Teams for play-offs:

Kärpät
Blues
Jokerit
Tappara
JYP
Pelicans

HIFK
Ilves
Lukko
TPS

The play-off will begin on Friday 7th March with first round which will be played among the teams placed 7-10. Two of those teams will continue to the quarterfinals, which will start on Wednesday 12th March.


Play-off pairs for the first round:

HIFK- TPS
Ilves-Lukko

Quarterfinals:

Kärpät- (Ilves/Lukko/TPS)
Blues- (HIFK/Ilves/Lukko)
Jokerit- Pelicans
Tappara- JYP

Best scorers from each team and their standings in the League statistics:

1. Janne Pesonen, Kärpät 34+44
2. Ville Leino, Jokerit 28+49
4. Jarkko Immonen, JYP 26+37
7. Loppi Matias, Pelicans 18+40
9. Koskela Timo, Tappara 20+33
14. Laine Teemu, TPS 17+28
15. Vesce Ryan, HIFK 26+18
16. Keller Ryan, Blues 22+22
22. Bishai Mike, Ilves 13+28
29. Immonen Jarkko, SaiPa 19+19
33. Kiiskinen Tuomas, KalPa 12+26
37. Joensuu Jesse, Ässät 17+18
40. Toporowski Shayne, Lukko 12+22
65. Salonen Pasi, HPK 11+17


Other:

Forward Janne Pesonen from Kärpät has been selected as League's player of the month for February. He was rewarded on the last Tuesday when Kärpät played against Jokerit.

The League and Philips have selected Tappara's forward Jori Lehterä as February's young player of the month. He was rewarded on Saturday's game when Tappara played against Ässät.

Defenceman Erik Hämäläinen played his career's 1000th League game on Saturday when Lukko met Kärpät. During his 21 League seasons Hämäläinen has played with 287 different teammates.

Referee Jari Levonen was rewarded for his career's 300th League game which he refereed on Thursday's game between JYP and HPK. This current season is Levonen's 7th in the League.

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