Helsinki a first semifinalists, Tatran ends at the tournament    (18. 8. 2007, (18.8.2007, florbal.cz – bink, translated by Eva F Novak)) A first semifinalists is already known. Helsinski SSV conquerred a Czech champion from Střešovice 9:3 and in the evening is going to fight in T-Mobile Arena for its participation in the finals. Helsinki jumped in the match in high pace. Immediately in the beginning it managed to gain a two-goal lead. „In the beginning we offered them the goal chances due to our mistakes,“ said a captain of Tatran, Milan Fridrich after the match. „Howlers originated from a weari. Together with the friendly match against Wiler it was the seventh difficult match at the tournament and in addition, the whole time we are playing only with two play lines..“ Tatran managed to loosen from opening pressure of the Finnish opponent and even to take up initiative for a while during the second period. It achieved to lower to 3:2, but Helsinki managed to use fast counterattacks and create secure lead. „When the score was just for one goal, they managed to increase to 4:2 and so to calm down,“ said Milan Fridrich. „Then in the third period they were only increasing their own lead and so we had to open our play. They just waited for breaks and didn’t have to use their offensive power at all,“ thought Fridrich. The most successful in Helsinki colors was Santto Manner. The most productive man of the last season of the Finnish league score fivetimes. „We wanted to score as much goals as possible. Five would be good, but those nine goals usually is our typical aim,“ added a Finnish forward, Markus Huhtimo.