December 6th 2018
Stavanger Oilers vs Storhamar 7-3 FINAL
(1-0, 4-0, 2-3)
The first period was quite equal with both teams racking up 2-3 huge goal scoring opportunities. Stavanger were the team capitalizing, in the first powerplay of the night, when Daniel Rokseth’s onetimer from downtown beat Oskar Östlund low on the glove side. For Storhamar Patrick Thoresen, Robin Dahlstrøm and Jens Jakobs all missed from short range, Thoresen seeing his goal post shot gliding on the goal line and out the other side behind goalie Henrik Holm. Östlund made a huge save in the dying seconds of the frame to keep it at one behind.
It’s no secret that the Yellows have struggled a bit as of late, and sadly it all unfolded itself in the middle half in Stavanger. Everything went wrong for our blue dressed players in this period, it was almost unbelievable to witness. It started with a missed major call on Stavanger’s Lorentzen for his career threatening kneeing towards Patrick Thoresen, only to see Mario Lucia score in the next shift. It was just brutal, and of course totally unacceptable. Luckily Thoresen survived the blow and could keep playing.
Storhamar lost their cool after the Lorentzen tackle and became undisciplined and unfocused. From that point it became ugly for our guys, and Stavanger took advantage by scoring three straight powerplay goals before the buzzer, in order by Stephan Vigier, David Morley and Jonas Løvlie. The best boxplay team in the league seemed like … not exactly that. Östlund made some nice saves to keep the hosts from going even further ahead, but somehow it felt like it didn’t matter. It was the worst period for Storhamar’s sake for at least a couple of years.
The final act was just for show from both teams. The nerve was gone and neither team managed to keep it at 100%. So it ended in a lot of scrappy plays and chances both ways. Stavanger managed two goals and our guys got three. Nothing more to report from one of the grimmer days in Storhamar’s history. Goals by Mario Lucia and Jonas Løvlie for the hosts and Victor Svensson, Kjetil Martinsen and Martin Rønnild for Storhamar.