GDT: Preseason 9/28/09 - "No Jet lag here!" Panthers Vs. Tappara

[Beezer]

Tonight your Florida Panthers take on the Tappara Tampere! Game time at 12:00pm live from the Tampere Ice Hall in Finland!

TV: None.

Radio: (No promises during preseason)Listen Live to http://gamecenter.nhl.com/nhlgc/console.jsp

Temperature at the drop of the puck:

Sunrise, Florida.: Sunny 87 degrees

Tempere, Finland: Brisk 50 degrees



VS.

Expected Starting Goaltenders Panthers Tomas Vokoun GP W L OTL GAA SV% SO 0 0 0 0 0.0 .000 0 VS. Tappara Harri Sateri GP W L OTL GAA SV% SO 0 0 0 0 0.0 .000 0

Standings Florida: Wins Losses OTL/SOL Total Points 0 0 0 0 Tappara: Wins Losses OTL/SOL Total Points 0 0 0 0 A Clean Slate!!! Eastern Conference Standings: Rank Team GP Pts 1 Boston 0 0 2 Washington 0 0 3 Philadelphia 0 0 4 Montreal 0 0 5 NYR 0 0 6 New Jersey 0 0 7 Carolina 0 0 8 Buffalo 0 0 9 Pittsburgh 0 0 10 Florida 0 0 11 Toronto 0 0 12 Ottawa 0 0 13 Tampa Bay 0 0 14 Atlanta 0 0 15 NYI 0 0

2008-09 Team Leaders Florida Points Stephen Weiss 61 Goals David Booth 31 Assists Stephen Weiss 47 PIM Nick Boynton 91 GAA Tomas Vokoun 2.49 Save % Tomas Vokoun .930 Tappara Points ? ?? Goals ? ?? Assists ? ?? PIM ? ??? GAA ? ?.?? Save % ? .???

Special Teams Florida: PP% PP Rank PK% PK Rank 0.0% 1st 0.0% 1st Tappara: PP% PP Rank PK% PK Rank 0.0% 1st 0.0% 1st

Injuries Tappara Player Position Date Of Incident Status Injury ?         Panthers Player Position Date Of Incident Status Injury N. Tarnasky C Sept. 15, 2009 3 weeks Ego

Red Hot Cats Of The Night The Red Hot Cat Of The Night tonight is the Sunrise Express Line for combining for 2 goals and 2 assists in the last game!!! Cpt. Caber’s Corner - ``I'm obviously honored,'' McCabe said. ``I see myself as a guy who works his butt off day in and day out in practice. I try to lead by example.'' ``You earn that respect,'' DeBoer said. "Absolutely," he said. "I feel honestly that I've matured a lot over the years and I've had a chance to play with some of the best leaders of all time — Mats Sundin, Doug Gilmour, Mark Messier. I've learned a lot from those guys and hopefully I can carry it into this locker room."- McCabe Link to full articles: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/ho...y/1248711.html http://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/f...tory?track=rss

Player Quotes Preseason Comments So Far: Koistinen also gets to play the role of tour guide and interpreter for his teammates. The free agent signee from Nashville has been pulled into work whenever teammates encounter someone who doesn't speak English -- such as Saturday morning when the team's luggage arrived from the airport. ``Ville, Ville!'' his teammates shouted when they realized the driver of the truck didn't speak English. Article: Panthers Get To Work! Link to full article: http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/ho...y/1253844.html “We need another Michael Frolik, a guy who comes to camp with not a lot of expectations and surprises you and become a regular contributor. I think that's going...” - Coach Pete DeBoer, on Florida giving rookies a shot to make the 2009-10 roster out of training camp. - The Sunrise Express line of Nathan Horton and David Booth flanking Stephen Weiss at center, continues to play together. “Our plan is to start the season with those guys together, but obviously they have to produce,” - DeBoer said. “All three(Garrison, Backman & Kulikov) are prepared to play in the NHL right now and they all give us different things. With Dmitry, really the only knock on him is experience, which will come in time, obviously,” said DeBoer.”[/b] SUNDAY COFFEE ARTICLE: 9/27/09 " You want competition and game-like situations, but you also want practice time between games in order to actually work with your team and correct some of the things you do." - Panthers Head Coach Peter DeBoer Link to full article: http://panthers.nhl.com/club/news.ht...id=DL|FLA|home

Primary Target Need to know that we can score enough goals to win those games in which we allow too many goals.

Hope to see more of this from Ballard this season!!!!!!!!!

-Malkin-I believe I can fly!

Really hope Frolik improves on last season!!!!!!!!!

We need one of our high picks to pan out like others have for other teams!!!

Let's Go Panthers!!!!!

[Laus723]

Another great GDT dude!

[FinlandKristian]

im guessing for tappara the goalie will be harri sateri nd its tampere

[Beezer]

Originally Posted by Laus723

Another great GDT dude!

Thanks for noticing!

[Beezer]

Originally Posted by FinlandKristian

im guessing for tappara the goalie will be harri sateri

Thanks for the information. Added it in there!

[pb1300]

Did this game finish already?

[Laus723]

Originally Posted by Beezer

Thanks for noticing!

Well...I was sitting next to you as you made it. Was fun watching how you make em.

[Laus723]

Originally Posted by pb1300

Did this game finish already?

It's tomorrow.

[Beezer]

Originally Posted by pb1300

Did this game finish already?

Since it is an early game tommorrow(noon), I decided to do it late afternoon today to get more then just 2 hours use out of it.

Originally Posted by Laus723

Well...I was sitting next to you as you made it. Was fun watching how you make em.

[Mogo]

I'll be there! Only a 2 hour car trip. But most likely will get wasted so got a hotel room just in case

Btw. Former NHLer Ville Nieminen plays for Tappara, also one of he owners of Tappara is a huge Panthers fan and goes to a lot Panthers games in Florida. He owns a house in Florida.

[Beezer]

Originally Posted by Mogo

I'll be there! Only a 2 hour car trip. But most likely will get wasted so got a hotel room just in case

Btw. Former NHLer Ville Nieminen plays for Tappara, also one of he owners of Tappara is a huge Panthers fan and goes to a lot Panthers games in Florida. He owns a house in Florida.

You better get some nice pics to post here on the boards from the game.

[KWGoon]

Originally Posted by Mogo

I'll be there! Only a 2 hour car trip. But most likely will get wasted so got a hotel room just in case

Btw. Former NHLer Ville Nieminen plays for Tappara, also one of he owners of Tappara is a huge Panthers fan and goes to a lot Panthers games in Florida. He owns a house in Florida.

Although I'm sure you know this but maybe it bears repeating. A popular drinking song sung to the lullaby tune "are you sleeping". There are other tunes too but I forgot them.

Lapin Kulta, Lapin Kulta
Karjala, Karjala
Sininen ja Olvi, Sininen ja Olvi
Koff, Koff, Koff. Koff, Koff, Koff.

(These are among the more popular Finnish beer brands.)

[FinlandKristian]

Originally Posted by KWGoon

Although I'm sure you know this but maybe it bears repeating. A popular drinking song sung to the lullaby tune "are you sleeping". There are other tunes too but I forgot them.

Lapin Kulta, Lapin Kulta
Karjala, Karjala
Sininen ja Olvi, Sininen ja Olvi
Koff, Koff, Koff. Koff, Koff, Koff.

(These are among the more popular Finnish beer brands.)

great research man

[RCGP]

Originally Posted by pb1300

Did this game finish already?

Initially I thought this was a Finnish joke.

[Finnpin]

Originally Posted by Beezer

Thanks for the information. Added it in there!

Its Tampere or Mansester not Tempere

Btw the ice hockey hall where they play is the first one in Finland and it was built for the 1965 Ice Hockey World Championships.

[Zach_Birch]

Tappara always gives a box of local delicacy "black sausage" to away team after the game. I wonder if Koistinen can persuade anyone else to try it.

Actually, it tastes good, especially with lingonberry jam

[Finnpin]

It is good by I can see the Panthers running away from it

[portal333]

No, I'm sorry... black sausage and the like is not tasty. The memories of being forced to eat blodpudding from the school cafeteria still haunt me.

It's baked blood, y'alls.

[jol]

Originally Posted by Zach_Birch

Tappara always gives a box of local delicacy "black sausage" to away team after the game. I wonder if Koistinen can persuade anyone else to try it.

Actually, it tastes good, especially with lingonberry jam

Black or blood sausage actually is one of South Florida delicacies, very popular in South America, "morcilla".

JOL

[portal333]

Originally Posted by jol

Black or blood sausage actually is one of South Florida delicacies, very popular in South America, "morcilla".

JOL

I've had the good fortune of not encountering it in Florida then.

[Montsy14]

If anyone has an online feed, please share.

[BlackLabel]

The game wont be shown on TV even in Finland so I doubt there will be any online streams.

The game against Jokerit on Wednesday will be broadcasted on TV though.

[Montsy14]

Originally Posted by BlackLabel

The game wont be shown on TV even in Finland so I doubt there will be any online streams.

The game against Jokerit on Wednesday will be broadcasted on TV though.

darn, thanks.

[ES]

Originally Posted by FinlandKristian

im guessing for tappara the goalie will be harri sateri nd its tampere

I would rather think that both Tappara goalies would share the duties. These kind of games are special for European teams and as it's only exhibition game, it's not mattering too much what the result is.

Info on Tappara roster:

Former NHL players
L Ville Nieminen
F Lee Goren (has played in Panthers)

Recently drafted players
C Niclas Lucenius, Thrashers 2007
L Jonas Enlund, Thrashers 2006
C Jori Lehterä, Blues 2008
D Harri Ilvonen, Wild 2007
G Harri Säteri, Sharks 2008

Regular season statistics so far

Name, #, Pos, GP, G A P PIM ± PP SH GW S S% Icetime
Lehterä, Jori 21 C 7 1 10 11 2 4 1 0 0 17 5,9 19.09 
Enlund, Jonas 26 L 7 6 3 9 4 4 0 0 1 27 22,2 18.32 
Goren, Lee 44 F 4 2 6 8 6 2 1 0 0 20 10,0 19.07 
Lucenius, Niclas 73 C 7 3 2 5 10 2 1 0 1 22 13,6 12.57 
Koskela, Timo 11 L 7 1 3 4 8 -3 1 0 0 12 8,3 16.32 
Ilvonen, Harri 77 D 7 0 3 3 6 0 0 0 0 23 0,0 20.50 
Saravo, Pekka 6 D 7 2 0 2 8 4 1 0 0 25 8,0 23.22 
Koskinen, Joonas* 17 F 7 2 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 17 11,8 13.27 
Nieminen, Ville 30 L 6 1 1 2 20 -1 0 0 1 20 5,0 16.25 
Halme, Jussi 15 D 7 1 1 2 12 -1 0 0 0 14 7,1 20.25 
Peltonen, Tomi 87 L 6 0 2 2 4 1 0 0 0 6 0,0 9.27 
Pyymäki, Jarkko 28 F 7 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 8 12,5 8.06 
Peltola, Jukka 81 R 4 1 0 1 4 0 0 0 0 4 25,0 7.29 
Pentikäinen, Atte 82 D 6 0 1 1 8 3 0 0 0 5 0,0 13.49 
Lähde, Nestori* 14 R 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0,0 7.09 
Junnila, Jyri 20 R 7 0 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 10 0,0 13.01 
Strömberg, Kim 22 R 7 0 1 1 14 1 0 0 0 17 0,0 15.07 
Mäntylä, Tuukka 18 D 6 0 1 1 29 1 0 0 0 21 0,0 22.45 
Hughes, John 9 R 6 0 1 1 2 -1 0 0 0 15 0,0 14.39 
Malkamäki, Miko 4 D 2 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 5 0,0 16.37 
Korhonen, Lasse 52 D 6 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 13 0,0 17.09 
Säteri, Harri 29 G 7 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - - 
Lehto, Mika 34 G 7 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - - 
Turkulainen, Jesse* 16 D 1 0 0 0 4 -1 0 0 0 0 0,0 10.30

A note on shots - all shots are counted (not only SOG like in NHL) so that affects the numbers and percentage.

[Clint]

Originally Posted by ES

A note on shots - all shots are counted (not only SOG like in NHL) so that affects the numbers and percentage.

Interesting. I would assume that this effects only shooting percentage and not save percentage, correct?