FEL Finnish fights 2012-2013

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The Finnish preseason officially starts tomorrow with the legendary season opener Pitsiturnaus. Lukko arranges the tournament for the 19th time. The participating teams are: Lukko (group A), Sport (group A), Ässät (group A), Ilves (group B), Pelicans (group B) and TPS (group B). Tomorrow we also should see the first fight(s) of the season as there's almost 100% guarantee for fights in Lukko-Ässät game. The tournament start at 9am local time and the Lukko-Ässät game starts at 10:15am local time. All games have two 15min periods except the final that has two 20min periods.

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What a huge ****ing disappointment! No fights in Lukko-Ässät game. Patrik Moisio (Ässät) challenged Matt Generous (Lukko) but Generous just turned away. Have to say I was worried of this after Lukko announced that one of Finlands biggest pacifists Risto Dufva is their new coach. I was especially afraid that there would be no fights after the anti-fighting comments by Dufva in news papers.

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And the first player to drop gloves in Finland this season is Tappara's Ville Nieminen who shed his mits on Wednesday against Tommi Huhtala of Blues. The fight wasn't much as Huhtala didn't drop his gloves and got only 2min roughing minor and Nieminen got 2min for cross-checking+2min for roughing+10min misconduct for dropping gloves. Not a very good start of season so far.

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Fight in an InterLeague game between Mestis team KooKoo and KHL team Sibir Novosibirsk, Jesse Lustberg (KooKoo) vs Nikita Zaitsev (Sibir). Also reports say that KooKoo's Matt Nickerson challenged Sibir's bench and got a 10min misconduct for it.

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Video of the Lustberg vs Zaitsev fight, Lustberg in black:

Драка Никита Зайцев ("Сибирь") VS - Jesse...

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Fight in European trophy, Ilari Melart (HIFK) vs Richard Gelke (Mannheim). Reports say clear win Melart.

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And here's the video of the Melart-Gelke fight, Melart in red:

HIFK vs. Adler Mannheim | Ilari Melart vs....

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Yesterday we had a fight in HPK-Ässät game, Antti Aarnio (HPK) vs Jani Honkanen (Ässät). The fight started after agitator Aarnio had layed some hits on Ässät's player and Honkanen wanted him to stop. Reports say win Honkanen.

Some pictures of the fight, Aarnio in orange, Honkanen in white
http://kuvapankki.jatkoaika.com/g2/d...-240812-18.jpg
http://kuvapankki.jatkoaika.com/g2/d...-240812-19.jpg
http://kuvapankki.jatkoaika.com/g2/d...-240812-20.jpg
http://kuvapankki.jatkoaika.com/g2/d...-240812-21.jpg

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A nice weekend so far for Finnish teams. Yesterday we had the Aarnio-Honkanen fight in Kultakeskus-tournament that was mentioned earlier. Also yesterday in European trophy Jonathan Ferland (Vienna Capitals) and Antti Halonen (KalPa) had something that was discribed as faustkampf(=fist fight) in the Vienna Capitals homepage. Ferland got 2+2+10min and Halonen 2+10min. Today in we had three events. In European Trophy TPS' young defender Rasmus Ristolainen took on Christian Dubé of Swiss Fribourg-Gotteron. Both got 2+2+10min. The bronze medal game in Kultakeskus-turnaus also had a fight, Tuomas Vänttinen (HPK) vs Petri Meri (Sport), both 5+Game. And finally in Easton-tournament game between Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and Pelicans' Ryan O'Marra had a fight with so far anonymous Torpedo player who had been giving hard time to O'Marra's team mate Timo Pärssinen. Both fighters got 2+5+Game for their effort.

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Just confirmed that the Torpedo player O'Marra fought was Vladimir Gorbunov. Here's also a picture of the fight: http://www.ess.fi/upload/image/2012/8/25/687225_.jpg

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Video of the Ferland-Halonen fight from Friday, Halonen in yellow:

UPC Vienna Capitals, 2012-08-24, #24 Jonathan...

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Here's a video of Gorbunov-O'Marra fight, not sure if it can be viewed outside Finland but let's hope it can be. O'Marra in turqoise:
http://www.ess.fi/?category=3280&fol...videoid=521283

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Today in European Trophy we had a fight between Radek Dlouhy (Brno, Czech Extraliga) and Atte Ohtamaa (Kärpät). Both fighters got 5+Game for roughing.

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Some brawling in Mestis today as Joona Manninen and Otto Karvinen from Jokipojat took a round with Toni Hyvärinen and Jesse Rohtla (Jukurit).

Pairs:
Manninen vs Hyvärinen
Karvinen vs Rohtla

Penalties:
45:39 2min KARVINEN Otto Jokipojat Väkivaltaisuus
45:39 5min KARVINEN Otto Jokipojat Väkivaltaisuus
45:39 20min KARVINEN Otto Jokipojat Automaattinen pelirangaistus
45:39 5min ROHTLA Jesse Jukurit Väkivaltaisuus
45:39 20min ROHTLA Jesse Jukurit Automaattinen pelirangaistus
45:39 2min MANNINEN Joona Jokipojat Väkivaltaisuus
45:39 10min MANNINEN Joona Jokipojat Automaattinen käytösrangaistus
45:39 2min HYVÄRINEN Toni Jukurit Väkivaltaisuus
45:39 10min HYVÄRINEN Toni Jukurit Automaattinen käytösrangaistu

Pictures: http://jatkoaika.com/mestis.php?sivu=kolumnit&id=14442

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Some action in European Trophy game between local rivalries Jokerit and HIFK!

First, at 1.59 Ilari Melart (HIFK) drops his gloves and jumps Jarkko Ruutu (Jokerit). Ruutu turtles and Melart gets 5+Game, no penalty to Ruutu. Then, at 6.47 Semir Ben-Amor (Jokerit) retaliates and attacks Ville Peltonen (HIFK). HIFK immediately reatialtes that attack as Mikko Jokela jumps Jokerit's Jani Rita.

Here's ome quotes from the official European Trophy site:

"01:59 Then Melart jumps on Ruutu without his gloves. The IFK defender is ejected from the game.

01:59 Melart gets 5 minutes for roughing and a game misconduct. PP for Jokerit."

"06:47 Multiple fights going on on the ice!
06:47 Ben-Amor jumped on Peltonen who has a hard time going off the ice. After that Jokela started a fight with Rita who didn't drop his glove. Jokela and Ben-Amor are ejected from the game.
06:47 The refs are discussing about the penalties right now.
06:47 It's clear that this brawl was started by Ben-Amor. After that, IFK reacted.
06:47 Peltonen looked like he had a concussion in the hands of Ben-Amor. Two players had to help him get off the ice.
6:47 And here come the penalties: Jokela 2+5 mins + game misconduct, Töykkälä 2 mins roughing, Rita 5 mins + game misconduct, Ben-Amor 2+5 mins + game misconduct, Väänänen 2 mins for roughing. IFK will have almost a five minute PP when the Melart penalty ends"