HIFK’s crisis will not subside in the hockey league. The fifth match of the season already resulted in the fourth loss.
HIFK–KooKoo 1–5
of HIFK another dark chapter was written in the rough beginning of the season, when Kouvola’s KooKoo took a 5-1 away win from the Helsinki Ice Hall.
HIFK is plowing in the League as a series jumbo after five rounds played. The account has only one win from the opening round against HPK. After that, the points have alternately gone to Tappara, Ilves, SaiPa and KooKoo.
During the league’s current scoring system, HIFK has never started its season this badly. After just four games, the score was record low, and the loss to KooKoo weakened the statistics even more.
HIFK took the lead in the second set of the match Iiro Pakarinen goal, but then KooKoo put the wind in the wind. In six minutes, the game turned upside down.
First Joose Antonen fired by the HIFK pack Joonas Lyytinen skate through the handicap, after which Samuli Ratinen caught Lyytinen’s stray pass and misled him further to maximize the humiliation before the lead goal. Antonen scored the 3–1 goal right from the start with his second of the night.
In the final Linus Andersson beautified the readings at the end of a great superiority pattern, and nailed the fifth goal into the void Heikki Liedes.
When HIFK took a time-out two minutes before the end of the match in a seemingly hopeless situation, shouts of “Peltonen out” echoed from the stands, the coach To Ville Pelton. After the game ended, the audience booed and whistled.
The home team brute of hard work Micke-Max Åsten already played his 400th league match on Saturday, all of which have come in HIFK’s shirt. 30-year-old Åsten is currently the longest-serving player in the Helsinki club.
The crowd remembered their cult striker with thunderous applause when he was announced on the ice before the match.
Åsten, known by the nickname “Mule”, broke into HIFK’s representative team for good in the 2015-16 season, after he had been tirelessly knocking on the League’s gates for four years before that.
11 seasons and 400 matches have produced 22+36=58 power points for the quad chain driller, but perhaps even more memorably numerous bruises and a couple of cracked teeth.
of HIFK the lineup also saw his league debut against KooKoo when he was 17 years old Kasper Halttunen made his legendary redshirt debut. He immediately got into the second chain injured Olli Palolan to the place.
Halttunen fired a few fiery shots at the KooKoo goal, but despite a hard effort, the first league goal was still not born.
The young attacker is a second-generation league hockey player. His father Niko Halttunen played one match in his career at HIFK in the 1993–94 season.
Despite the miserable early season, HIFK attracted 7,071 pairs of eyes to Saturday’s KooKoo match. The team aims to turn its course on Wednesday when it hosts Vaasan Sport.
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