Ilves devour city rivals Tappara with huge win in Liiga semi-finals game two

[p]The lowest seeds left in the competition held off a late [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/tappara/llrWVOwG/"]Tappara[/a] rally to win game one in what was technically an away match for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/ilves-tampere/Oh5uGzDT/"]Ilves[/a], but with the whole of the best-of-seven series played at Nokia Arena, how much home advantage would count was up for debate.[/p][p]But in front of their own fans, Ilves made a real case for it - in an opening period which was beset by penalties on both sides of the ice, Ilves finally made use of a powerplay after 17 minutes,[b] when [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/mantykivi-matias/l2eFpoRg/"]Matias Mantykivi[/a] squared the puck to [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/henman-luke/ADRnATR0/"]Luke Henman[/a] on the right, and he finished in style.[/b][/p][p]The Lynx came out for the second period with their tails up, and made it count two minutes later when [b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/ratinen-samuli/IPXDuzXP/"]Samuli Ratinen[/a] carried the puck right around the Tappara goal before his pass-cum-shot deflected in off [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/matinmikko-aleksi/j7cwkcxi/"]Aleksi Matinmikko[/a]'s skate.[/b][/p][p]It was 3-0 just past the midpoint in the match when [b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/torok-matic/KtWca625/"]Matic Torok[/a] picked up a loose puck on the edge of his own zone and raced away unchallenged before firing home[/b]. Then, inside the last four minutes of the period, [b]Ratinen netted his third of the series with a quick one-timer from the right wing.[/b][/p][embed guid="c02b665a-ad68-40e2-a0fa-490376369a44" url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFDLOrkfRIY" social-type="youtube" /][p]Tappara came alive in the third period in game one, but they fell apart this time - [b]it was all too easy for [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/johansson-simon/IZ62cQAC/"]Simon Johansson[/a] to jink his way through the defence before lifting goal number five over the goaltender[/b], and when [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/andersson-jonathan/S0dKa0R3/"]Jonathan Andersson[/a] was called for roughing soon after, T[b]orok completed his brace on the resulting powerplay.[/b][/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/player/pavlat-dominik/6ZgG0Tde/"]Dominik Pavlat[/a] made 17 saves to complete his shutout, as Henman, Johansson and[/b] T[b]orok finished with three points each in a devastating [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/game/hockey/ilves-Oh5uGzDT/tappara-llrWVOwG/?mid=GEApVWoJ"]6-0[/a] derby triumph[/b] that puts Ilves in a great position ahead of game three on Tuesday 21st, which also sees [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/saipa/Q9sYH4O9/"]SaiPa[/a] and [a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/team/kookoo/ljjApDE3/"]KooKoo[/a] return to action.[/p][p][b][a href="https://www.flashscore.ca/hockey/finland/liiga/"]Follow the Liiga playoff semi-finals on Flashscore.[/a][/b][/p]