GDT: Quarterfinal • May 12 • Finland 4, Norway 1

[member 116805]

Good game Finland, congrats.
Good tournament Norway.

Glad to see that whoever said Norway would be outshoot was proven wrong. shots were36-34 Norway. We just were unlucky and not good enough finishing today.

Next year gentlemen! Muhahah!

 

[TollefsenFan]

 

[vsk92]

do finland play the winners of canda vs russia in the semi finals ????

 

[member 116805]

do finland play the winners of canda vs russia in the semi finals ????

Yes sir

 

[Diagonaali]

Full props to Norway, good dame. Special teams decided this one, 5 on 5 teams were pretty equal, which is quite embarrassing for Finns since Norway had only 3 defensemen for half of the game. On the other hand we have Lepistö playing so it balances it quite a bit.

Bring on Canada!

 

[cbj21]

Thanks for a great fun time this WC. Hope for more next year

 

[Tissotti]

Canada will **** Finland.
That's the holiday spirit from me.

Russia is so random with it's bad and good days that anything is possible against them.


Amazed by Norway. We played crap but thankfully for once we scored when we where given a change. Something totally different when we where against Germany when we controlled the game but could not score.

 

[Eidyia]

Norway was a very, very tough opponent. Congrats for a great tournament, in coming years with Thoresen, Z-A and less injuries you're definately going to be in the top4 some day.

Finland's gonna have tough time with this defence in future but we'll see...

Anyway, salut Norge

 

[member 116805]

Good guess!
Let me ask you though, did you also predict Norway to have more shots on goal?

 

[Mara]

Finland is looking good for the bronze game. Beating CAN/RUS is gonna be too much. At least we can beat SWE and get a medal.

 

[member 116805]

Norway was a very, very tough opponent. Congrats for a great tournament, in coming years with Thoresen, Z-A and less injuries you're definately going to be in the top4 some day.

Finland's gonna have tough time with this defence in future but we'll see...

Anyway, salut Norge

Thank you!
Maybe next year we can meet in the group play.. 1st game would be ok by me hehe
And good luck against canada/russia!

Soumi Finland Perkele!

 

[MaNNe]

Canada will **** Finland.
That's the holiday spirit from me.

Russia is so random with it's bad and good days that anything is possible against them.

Agreed, Canada will bash Finland, but I think the Russians will aswell. If they do manage to win Canadians they'll have a good enough morale boost to just roll over us. Bronze is the only thing I see as achievable, but we are by far the worst team left in the tournament right now.

 

[Stifmeister]

Well Finland won but it wasn't an easy victory. Norway played very well when they weren't in the penalty box, as it was expected. Good game, Norway!

So..next it's Canada?

 

[ES]

Referees had many horrible calls this game. And not even talking about penalties they called, but two other things.

1. Finland scored 4th goal four-on-four under delayed penalty. Refs called the player in the box out and put the delayed penalty into effect, as it would happen if the goal is scored on power play. Finland got 26 extra seconds of power play there.

2. Calling too many men on the ice to Norway late in the game, while Norway had pulled their goaltender. Realized that mistake and penalty was not put into effect.

 

[illone84]

I have a feeling that Ovechkin is gonna wake up today and score 2 goals.

 

[Paatos]

Norway sure has progressed in leaps and bounds

Yeah, onwards to the bronze game most likely...

 

[llwyd]

Agreed, Canada will bash Finland, but I think the Russians will aswell. If they do manage to win Canadians they'll have a good enough morale boost to just roll over us. Bronze is the only thing I see as achievable, but we are by far the worst team left in the tournament right now.

Classical Finnish sentiments! Not a nation of optimists, are we... Anyway, these are best of one games: with a hot goalie and a bit of luck, we have a realistic shot for even the gold, but of course, usually the material will count, so it's still a longish shot. But great that once again we are playing for the medals!

 

[Latex*]

Kummola is sooooo annoying!

 

[happysquirrel]

What a bad game from Finland and alltogether a boring game to watch.

I sure hope we see a totally different team in the next two games.

Congrats to Norway for a great tournament.

 

[TollefsenFan]

I wonder about the rankings Since Latvia and Belarus screwed up. Perhaps we can climb on the ranking ...... hope so!

 

[MaNNe]

Classical Finnish sentiments! Not a nation of optimists, are we... Anyway, these are best of one games: with a hot goalie and a bit of luck, we have a realistic shot for even the gold, but of course, usually the material will count, so it's still a longish shot. But great that once again we are playing for the medals!

It's a realistic viewpoint, of course the game is not played on paper, anything can happen. But the odds for that with the material we have are extremely low. Saying anything else, is unrealistic.

 

[BusQuets]

Agreed, Canada will bash Finland, but I think the Russians will aswell. If they do manage to win Canadians they'll have a good enough morale boost to just roll over us. Bronze is the only thing I see as achievable, but we are by far the worst team left in the tournament right now.

I disagree Sweden might be even worse than Finland

 

[Madude]

It was good game. Norway definetly had chances just couldn't score.

Like I said before the game I want to see Aaltonen gone. ****ing useless speedster with no finish. Rather give youngsters like Joensuu a chance. Also break up Salmela and Lepistö.

 

[Levi]

I don't know, I think we may benefit from being the underdogs.

 

[Eidyia]

I wonder about the rankings Since Latvia and Belarus screwed up. Perhaps we can climb on the ranking ...... hope so!

Don't know about the rankings but for me it seems both Norway and Denmark are ahead of Latvia and Belarus.

Latvia has been average for years and Belarus only got surplus players in addition of their three NHL stars. Both Scandinavian countries has much more depth though and Denmark with their NHL-players will be hard to beat even in the best vs. best tournaments. Same goes with Norway in some extent.

It was good game. Norway definetly had chances just couldn't score.

Like I said before the game I want to see Aaltonen gone. ****ing useless speedster with no finish. Rather give youngsters like Joensuu a chance. Also break up Salmela and Lepistö.

Pelicans ruined Aaltonen. Also, if Aaltonen can't score how could a grinder like Joensuu do any better job?