Finnish Liiga · Saturday 31 October · LähiTapiola Areena
JYP – Jokerit 5:4 (after overtime): Finnish Liiga, 31/10/2026
Key facts
Form, table position, scoring and head-to-head in one place
Form: up to the last 5 matches in all competitions, most recent on the left (W = win, D = draw, L = loss). Averages come from the league table; where there is none, from these recent matches.
Form · last 5
League position
Goals per game · season
Head to head · 1
wins – draws – wins
Match report
The match in a few sentences: score, scorers, table impact
The text is generated automatically from the match data and updates with it.
Finnish Liiga: JYP – Jokerit 5:4 (31 October). JYP won after overtime. Venue: LähiTapiola Areena.
By period: 2:4, 0:0, 2:0, 1:0. Jokerit led after the first period (2:4), but their opponents came back to win.
Goals: M. Hannikainen (Jokerit); A. Forslund (Jokerit) ×2; A. Kalapudas (Jokerit); R. Newkirk (JYP); V. Liikonen (JYP); A. True (JYP); V. Ojantakanen (JYP); L. Tukiainen (JYP).
Table now: JYP — 4th, 35 points from 17 matches; Jokerit — 16th, 15 points from 18 matches.
Head to head (1): JYP — 1 win, Jokerit — 0.
Score by period
Goals in each period
OT = overtime, SO = shoot-out.
| Team | 1 | 2 | 3 | OT | Σ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JYP | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Jokerit | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Events
Goals with assists and penalties by period
1st period
- 04'pen.
Tripping
- 07'pen.
High sticking
- 07'
🏒 M. Hannikainen0:1
assist: P. Virta, A. Forslund · Power-play
- 10'
🏒 A. Forslund0:2
- 12'
🏒 A. Kalapudas0:3
assist: E. Kuusla, H. Nikkanen
- 13'
🏒 R. Newkirk1:3
assist: H. Pesonen, V. Ojantakanen
- 14'
🏒 V. Liikonen2:3
assist: J. Puustinen, J. Korjus
- 16'
🏒 A. Forslund2:4
2nd period
- 09'pen.
Cross-checking
3rd period
- 03'
🏒 A. True3:4
assist: A. Vidgren, J. Arola
- 09'pen.
Slashing
- 17'pen.
Tripping
- 17'
🏒 V. Ojantakanen4:4
assist: R. Newkirk, S. Vatanen · Power-play
Overtime
- 02'pen.
Tripping
- 04'
🏒 L. Tukiainen5:4
Power-play
Game leaders
Top performers in this game
Points (goals + assists)
- 13
- 22
- 32
- 41
- 51
- 61
Skaters
Each skater's contribution in this game
G = goals, A = assists, P = points (G + A), Pen. = penalties. Counted from match events; +/−, shots and time on ice are not available from the data source.
JYP
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| R. Newkirk | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| V. Ojantakanen | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| A. True | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| L. Tukiainen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| V. Liikonen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| A. Vidgren | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| H. Pesonen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Arola | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Korjus | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| J. Puustinen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| S. Vatanen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| E. Peltola | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Jokerit
| Player | G | A | P | Pen. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Forslund | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| A. Kalapudas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Hannikainen | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| E. Kuusla | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| H. Nikkanen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| O. Larsen | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| P. Curry | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| P. Virta | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| M. Caito | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| M. Fortier | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Goaltenders
Shots, saves and goals against
SOG = shots on goal, SV = saves, GA = goals against, SV% = SV / SOG, TOI = time on ice.
JYP
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O. Salminen(W) | 6 | 2 | 4 | 33.3% |
| O. Setanen(W) | 14 | 10 | 4 | 71.4% |
Jokerit
| Goaltender | SOG | SV | GA | SV% |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. Karhunen | 42 | 37 | 5 | 88.1% |
Team stats
Both teams' numbers side by side
- 42Shots on goal16
- 12Saves37
- 75%Save %88%
- 33Faceoffs won31
- 6Penalty minutes6
- 3Penalties3
- 2Power-play goals1
- 66%Power play %33%
- 66%Penalty kill %33%
- 0Short-handed goals0
Teams in the table
Both teams' positions in the league table
Full table on the competition page. Form: recent matches, most recent on the right.
Team leaders
Each team's best players this season
Recent matches
Both teams' recent results in all competitions
Head to head
Previous meetings between the two teams
Only matches in our data source (usually recent seasons).
JYP 1 : 0 Jokerit
- 17.09.Full timeJokerit
2:4
JYP