HIFK-Saipa 1-2 16.01.1997

Victorious at last

After loosing five we return in winning ways.

The big picture remains unchanged, though. It seems impossible for HIFK to open play fast enough, this results in the opposition having plenty of time to get back to defend and to forecheck. This obviously makes scoring goals extremely tough.

Kortelainen was reunited with O.Jokinen, but the latter would need some rest and has underperformed lately. Hurme-Wahlberg-Laukkanen won the game for HIFK. Wahlberg 2+2 and Laukkanen 1+2 were especially good. It has to be said that Kalpa is bottom of the league and therefore things will change drastically on Thursday when TPS play HIFK.

Stars of the game:

*** Wahlberg

** Laukkanen

* Hurme