Harsh penalties for Jokerit and HIFK

There were several fights in the game starting at 1.59 of the first period. The ugliest incident came 6.47 in the first period when Jokerit's goon Semir Ben-Amor jumped on Finnish ice hockey icon Ville Peltonen from behind and knocked him out. Peltonen was assisted from the ice and is suffering concussion. At the moment nobody knows when will he return.

This incident was the ugliest thing that has happened in Finnish ice hockey. You can hardly ever see incidents where a goon jumps on so called star player and even from behind so that another one doesn't even have a chanche to defend himself.

There were also some video evidences that Jokerit coaches would have ordered Ben-Amor to take Peltonen out and this made incident even more severe.

As a summary following penalties were given today by SM-liiga:

Jokerit:
penalty fee of 40 000 EUR
Head coach Tomi Lämsä, 8 games
Assistant coach Tomek Valtonen, 8 games
Semir Ben-Amor, 18 games
Jarkko Ruutu, 4 games
Ossi Väänänen, 1 game

HIFK:
Penalty fee of 25 000 EUR
Head coach Pasi Sormunen, 8 games
Juuso Salmi, 12 games
Ilari Melart, 6 games
Siim Liivik, 6 games

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