Happee defeated by Indians
Julkaistu: 16.10.2017 00.00

Happee defeated by Indians

Westend Indians became the first team to defeat Happee in this season. The courageous away team outplayed Happee almost completely and gained rare away points from Jyväskylä.

Happee started well and dominated the first ten minutes. Jaska Kunelius scored 1-0 after five minutes and just a moment later, Paul Kotilainen increased the lead after a series of beautiful passes. The Indians stayed positive and managed to equalize with goals on power play and even strength.

Happee was weak in the second period and the away team managed to utilize the home teams confused defence. Happee’s only goal in the period was a power play goal by Petri Kauko. The away team created a lot of chances and scored four goals in the second period.

Happee lifted its defence in the beginning of the third period and took the initiative. Jonne Junkkarinen and Jami Manninen scored a goal each and reduced to 5-7 but Heikki Iiskola killed the last spurt of Happee by finalizing his hat-trick with the 5-8 goal.

The best players of the game came from the away team. Santeri Toropainen and Heikki Iiskola executed hat-tricks. Happee failed to deliver as a team even though Petri Kauko and Jami Manninen got a goal and an assist each.

Head coach Mikko Lehto was unhappy with the undisciplined defence and the weak performance:

- Our last game was a couple of weeks ago so we tried to focus into starting strong. I think that we were on top for the first ten minutes but we spent the rest of the game cutting corners.

- We defended poorly and we let them score quite a few goals in an empty net. Nobody defended the far post. We created some kind of a spurt but we couldn’t really challenge the opponent. I also have to give some credit to the Indians. They were humble and disciplined. On Monday we wear our working gloves again and continue with training, Lehto finishes.

Next game is away against LASB on Sunday the 22nd and the next home game is on Sunday the 29th of october against TPS.

Match statistics in finnish

http://salibandy.fi/tulokset/#/ottelu/happee-indians/1507/2193

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