A brave victory

A brave victory

Davide Tuniz18 Apr 2015Davide Tuniz»
 

Despite the injuries Croatia wins Estonia, on the verge of relegation

 
 
 
 

Estonia has maybe the last chance to escape from relegation facing the irregular Croatia, plague by injuries: four players aren’t in the roster today: Dario Kostovic, Dominik Kanaet, Geoff Waugh and Alan Letang. Estonia coach Jussi Tupamaki chooses Villem-Henrik Koitmaa in the net, while Don MacLean has only three lines in hand. To get things worse, at 07:30 captain Marko Ljubic must be carried out after a rough charge.

After seven minutes another injury: captain Marko Ljubic leaves the ice: he will be back in third period

One minute before Andrei Makrov had opened the score for Estonia on Mike Auksi pass. At 09:09 a malicious diagonal shot by Artur Fedoruk doubles the score for Estonia. Coach MacLean calls a time-out, absolutely necessary to clear the mind.  The words of the coach have an immediate effect because Croatia scores at 11:28 after a nice tic-tac-toe between Andy Sertich and Ryan Kinasevich, finished from the latter. At 16:49 Dekanich is decisive in rebounding a deflection by Jastrebov while Estonian fans already celebrate the goal. Croatian goalie works a lot also in the last minutes of period, with Estonia on power play.

Croatia try to take advantage of a power play at the beginning of second period, but Koitmaa is reactive on Kinasevich and Blagus. Estonia is less enterprising so Croatia finds the second goal with a shot by Perkovich after a nice wrap-around by Blagus. Good move but Koitmaa isn’t perfect in placement. Estonian goalie redeem yourself at 27 when perfectly rebounds a dangerous shot by Perkovich, at 29 when stops a solo by Kinasevich and at 30 deflecting with the leg on Milicic. Estonia appears again one minute later with a missile by Auksi, controlled by Dekanich and at 32 with a diagonal by Sorokin. After a nice save by Koitmaa on Blagus, Estonia has a great chance at 35 when Karik steals a puck and is one-to-one with Dekanich but wastes shooting on goalie. Croatia completes the comeback at 39 when Estonian defence forgets Matija Milicic alone and for the forward it’s easy to tap in a pass from Sertich

Croatia third goal, scored by Matija Milicic

Estonia produces the maximum effort in first minutes of last period with a constant but inaccurate pressure without real dangerous situation for Dekanich. When the pressure weaken Kinasewich scores the fourth goal after an insisted work by Murray behind the gate, a goal that probably means relegation for Estonia. With 3 minutes to play coach Tupamaki calls a timeout and pulls Koitmaa trying desperately a goal to reopen the match but a stubborn move by Murray results in the final empty net goal

MVP: Kevin Parras – Ryan Kinasewich


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