Third match of 1/2 Finals, serie is tied 1:1 (5:4OT, 3:7).

Frisk is regular season champion, by far most efficient team in league with 4,73 goals per match and today they will play in Halden for second time. In first match they were close to getting something from that match, maybe they deserved to win, but Comet had four leads and Frisk main goal through the game was to catch them. Eventually Comet won in OT. Already in that match it was obvious that Frisk was better team, whenever they made pressure Comet conceded. Second match was looking as its score shows. Frisk took early lead with three difference, it was as that until the end of 2nd period when they decided to rest some players, even then Comet didn't managed to come close, they lost with 3:7.

Comet finished fifth in the league, and made a surprise eliminating favorized Sparta in Quarter Finals. That six games were pretty exhausting and it's only a matter of time when it will show on their play. To make things worst for them, except tiredness there is another threat to the team, some kind of virus attacked the team, and there is a number of players who are questionable for todays match, questionable through injuries or illness are: Linden, Nasvall, Nystrom, Arup and Engbretse, and most important absent player could be Pat Grotnes, first goalie. He didn't played in 2nd match against Frisk and his substitute Dahl-Nielsen proved as unadequate with only 75% of SVS. Even if some of this players play today i don't think they will be on 100%.

Along with better quality, Frisk players should be a bit more fresh as they had easier series and one game less played, this questionable players should prove as very important and under this circumstances i can't see nothing else but an away win. Only thing that goes in Comet favor is home advantage which shouldn't be too much as Comet is only sixth best home team, while Frisk is 2nd best on the road. This season H2H looks like this:

2008-03-11 Frisk Asker 7-3 Comet

2008-03-09 Comet 4-4,5-4OT Frisk Asker

2008-02-21 Frisk Asker 5-4 Comet

2008-01-10 Comet 5-2 Frisk Asker

2007-12-02 Frisk Asker 5-2 Comet

2007-10-18 Comet 3-5 Frisk Asker

At this odds i'll take Frisk medium/high...

Pick : Frisk
Odds : 2.30
Stake : 7 / 10
Bookmaker : Expekt
Date : 2008-03-13
Match Result : 0-4
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