Definately the toughest group by far. Kärpät ranked 3rd and Bern 5th even with the KHL teams in the mix. Skellefteå 26th.Outside of KHL you could argue that this group has three of top 10 orgs in european hockey. Grenoble is also a decent pro team which can also win couple of games like the win over Skellefteå. At the moment Kärpät (and Bern) seems to be a favorite to go through needing only one win from remaining three games.
This Ranking is not particularly meaningful. That would mean that Jokerit would only be the fourth best Finnish team. The KHL clubs have to be rated much higher. Yekaterinburg must to be on 3rd. Kazan, Ufa, Dynamo Moskow in Top 20.Definately the toughest group by far. Kärpät ranked 3rd and Bern 5th even with the KHL teams in the mix. Skellefteå 26th.
Top 250 européen / European ice hockey club rankings / 2018-19
This Ranking is not particularly meaningful. That would mean that Jokerit would only be the fourth best Finnish team. The KHL clubs have to be rated much higher. Yekaterinburg must to be on 3rd. Kazan, Ufa, Dynamo Moskow in Top 20.
Tuned into the start of the third. Predicting a Kärpät win.Bern-Kärpät tied at 1-1 after two and based on stats, it's even otherwise as well.
Good game by Bern and Kärpät. HPK is good as out.
They're making a hell of a lot of noise!I recommend to tune into the Ambri-Munich game, just to witness the best hockeysupporters Switzerland has to offer.
@Maverick41 I don't think 3.652 is that much of Hakametsä's capacity, which is 7.300. It's more than half still, 50.03 percent to be exact! We should keep that stuff out of this thread, though, or the trolls will come. I also tag here @Ciccarelli.
Tappara desperately needed points and six points we got. If we get another six points from the Norwegians, we are quaranteed to qualify for the playoffs once again which is awesome. Friday's game against KAC was a decent effort. First period was a little suspicious. The Austrians created a lot of scoring chances by speed and skill and also by our defence's mistakes. In the second period Tappara spent a lot of time on opponent's defensive zone not letting them make routine line shifts and that drained KAC's energy. On the latter half of the game Tappara had plenty of pretty goals against the exausted KAC. 8-3 was the final score.
Today's game against Biel I couldn't follow that closely, but it seemed a lot like the previous encounter. Hiller looked great again and so did our Heljanko. Tappara was pressing for goals, but only had one on one of many powerplays. Luckily it was enough, 1-0 was the score.