With KalPa’s Champions Hockey League season coming to an end with back-to-back meetings with the Stavanger Oilers, Ikonen took the chance to build up his confidence. In the games that became friendlies due to both teams having already been knocked out, Ikonen had his best performances of the season. He scored his first professional goal when he jumped on a rebound to get it past the goalkeeper from in close.
That capped off a fine game where Ikonen also showed good moves where you can tell that he still has the vision that made him a standout performer as a junior.