2023-04-21 20:42:44
HERNING:With a solid team effort, Aalborg Pirates won three DM match balls via a 6-2 victory in Herning.
Aalborg’s sharp defensive was decisive. Keeper George Sørensen had several class saves. His counterpart in the Herning case did not.
Herning had chosen to let two local musicians set the tone with an alternative version of the Danish national anthem. That version didn’t quite hit the right note. The question was which of the two teams was better on the notes when the match started.
Immediately, it was Herning who came out the best in the fourth DM final. Shortly into the game, a collision sent Thomas Spelling into the locker room. In advance, Pirates were hampered by cancellations from Oliver Anker and Jeppe Jul Korsgaard.
All speculation regarding injury problems disappeared as if by magic when Julian Jakobsen put the puck on goal from a very sharp angle – probably with a return puck in mind. To everyone’s surprise, however, the puck ended up in the net. Herning keeper Mac Carruth looked surprised when he might see that the puck had gone into the goal.
However, the lead was a short pleasure for the packed away section. Herning equalized shortly following when Brett Perlini. The good news for the Pirates was that Thomas Spelling got back on the ice and might take part in the game once more.
After the 1-1 score, the match waved back and forth. Both teams were dangerous. Perhaps Herning was a little more dangerous, but there were no further scores before the first break.
Herning Blue Fox – Aalborg Pirates 2-6
- Ice hockey, Metalligaen
- 4. DM-finale
- Periodecifre: 1-1, 0-2, 1-3
- Goals: 0-1 Julian Jakobsen (2.53), 1-1 Brett Perlini (4.05), 1-2 Matt Salhany (26.54), 1-3 Patrick Bjorkstrand (28.43), 1-4 Victor Rollin Carlsson (45.39), 2- 4 Mathias Bau (55.23), 2-5 Julian Jakobsen (57.09), 2-6 Patrick Bjorkstrand (58.34)
- ,Expulsions: Herning 4×2, 1×5+20, Aalborg 2×2
- Spectators: 2500
- This leads Aalborg Pirates 3-1 in the final series
- The fifth game will be played on Sunday at 17:30 in Aalborg
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In the second period, the introduction offered the same open exchange of blows that had characterized large parts of the first 20 minutes.
The first big chance of the period occurred when Morten Poulsen was suddenly free for a conversion, but George Sørensen was in place in the Pirates cage.
The same cannot be said for his colleague Mac Carruth, who did not look entirely innocent when Matt Salhany put the Pirates up 2-1 soon following. Again, the Herning keeper seemed slightly confused when a careless puck from Trevor Gooch suddenly ended up in the net.
The second period also featured the first sending offs of the game. Herning was hit with a couple of tickets for involuntary cooling. In connection with the second of three expulsions in quick succession, Patrick Bjorkstrand punished his boyhood club.
Via a short pull, he hammered the puck into the goal from a short distance. Herning continued to take more or less correctly judged dismissals, but Pirates failed to put in a coup d’état that a score to make it 4-1 would have been.
The Pirates closed out the second period in the stupidest way possible. After four expulsions in a row to Herning, the Pirates camp must have shown that the first expulsion to the Aalborg team might be very loose.
It was now a clear send-off that Ian Edmondson earned himself in the very last seconds of the second period when he responded to a tackle with a cross-check that left the referees in no doubt regarding a trip to the penalty box.
In the majority of Herning’s subsequent powerplay, the pirates had completely shut down Herning, but just before Ian Edmondson might leave the penalty box, George Sørensen had to pull a huge save out of his sleeve.
Now the challenge for the Pirates was that they mustn’t become as passive as they were when they tried to take the 2-1 lead home in game three.
However, Pirates managed to hold on in the Herning zone, and that resulted in a capital roar from Herning’s Jonathan Racine-Clarke. The Herning player ended up being sent to the shower, and this also gave Aalborg five minutes in the lead.
Victor Rollin Carlsson grabbed that chance when he made it 4-1 with over two minutes left in the five-minute lead. The Pirates had a few more chances in the advantage period, but it didn’t lead to more scores.
With a 4-1 lead at the back, it seemed, all else being equal, that the pirate ship would probably sail to victory safely in port.
When Herning rarely became dangerous, as so often before, Mathias From wrote regarding those situations. He was linked up with Mathias Bau, but even that combi mightn’t do anything. That’s why Herning lifted keeper Mac Carruth with just over five minutes left in the game. The six once morest five game gave Mathias Bau a chance, which he quite consistently converted into a reduction, and then the fox smelled blood.
The sweaty palms really became a reality in the Aalborg camp when, shortly following the reduction, Ian Edmondson went into the penalty box for the second time in the match. Herning bet everything and once more raised Mac Carruth to the bench and now played six once morest four.
The missing keeper was decisive when Julian Jakobsen showed his enormous class and worked his way to a loose puck, which he sent into the empty goal. Soon following, Patrick Bjorkstrand imitated him, and thus the many traveling Aalborg Pirates fans might pay tribute to their heroes following a job very well done.
A Pirates victory in Sunday’s DM final will equal DM gold for the pirates. The puck is dropped at 5:30 p.m.
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