RARRRRR! Justice is served, I've rarely seen a team that badly outworked up two goals after first period. Brief recap, watched it on tele on tape delay (damn YLE, which is why you haven't seen any Finns posting here) you should get a better recap for someone at the game.
First period - Russian (?) ref was calling it thight, and Czechs in particular took stupid penalties. Still both goals came on even strength. First Olesz found a hole between Toivonen's stick side pad and post from zero angle. Then he either got lucky or did something truly spectacular, he was parked in front of the net with Jalasvaara massagin his back (horrible effort from Jalasvaara) and a weak shot came from point, he either fumbled a misdirection or stopped the puck, it came to his backhand and he tapped it over Toivonen's glove. Puck in the air and back to the goalie.
Apart from Olesz goals and some nice stickwork leading to partial breakaway by Fleischman, Finns pretty much owned the period. They were laying the body and outhustling extremely passive Czechs, but had trouble handling the puck.
Second - Finns put up more presure and Czechs were just lost, finally at the end of the period Töykkälä had a shot on two-on-one after penalty on Kantee ended, it hit a dman but Töykkälä and Salminen just pushed the puck at Swarstch (sp?), who dropped it. Dman came to mop it away at the same moment that the goalie put the glove on it and it went in.
Third - Czechs got a penalty at the end of second. Lepistö blasted to it to top glove hand corner (right in this case) with Bergenheim and Salminen masking the view. Who said he can't shoot. Finns kept the preasure, fourth line of Petrell-Piispanen-Nurmi was particullary noticeable with Piispanen doing Sundin like stunts (why can't this guy get time on PP?) However it came ended when Barinka was doing a Kenny Jönsson impresio n admiring his pass and Petrell just wasted him with a shoulder to head hit. Barinka broke his nose and Petrell got five min, harsh IMO, which Finns then killed. The winning goal came when Tukonen and Bergenheim just got the puck in front of the net and Filppula sweeped it in up close.
Of the Finns, Filppula, Lepistö, Immonen and Piispanen were the ones showing good puck control, rest of the forwards worked really hard too. Apart from Olesz, Fleischman stood out from the Czech team.
First period - Russian (?) ref was calling it thight, and Czechs in particular took stupid penalties. Still both goals came on even strength. First Olesz found a hole between Toivonen's stick side pad and post from zero angle. Then he either got lucky or did something truly spectacular, he was parked in front of the net with Jalasvaara massagin his back (horrible effort from Jalasvaara) and a weak shot came from point, he either fumbled a misdirection or stopped the puck, it came to his backhand and he tapped it over Toivonen's glove. Puck in the air and back to the goalie.
Apart from Olesz goals and some nice stickwork leading to partial breakaway by Fleischman, Finns pretty much owned the period. They were laying the body and outhustling extremely passive Czechs, but had trouble handling the puck.
Second - Finns put up more presure and Czechs were just lost, finally at the end of the period Töykkälä had a shot on two-on-one after penalty on Kantee ended, it hit a dman but Töykkälä and Salminen just pushed the puck at Swarstch (sp?), who dropped it. Dman came to mop it away at the same moment that the goalie put the glove on it and it went in.
Third - Czechs got a penalty at the end of second. Lepistö blasted to it to top glove hand corner (right in this case) with Bergenheim and Salminen masking the view. Who said he can't shoot. Finns kept the preasure, fourth line of Petrell-Piispanen-Nurmi was particullary noticeable with Piispanen doing Sundin like stunts (why can't this guy get time on PP?) However it came ended when Barinka was doing a Kenny Jönsson impresio n admiring his pass and Petrell just wasted him with a shoulder to head hit. Barinka broke his nose and Petrell got five min, harsh IMO, which Finns then killed. The winning goal came when Tukonen and Bergenheim just got the puck in front of the net and Filppula sweeped it in up close.
Of the Finns, Filppula, Lepistö, Immonen and Piispanen were the ones showing good puck control, rest of the forwards worked really hard too. Apart from Olesz, Fleischman stood out from the Czech team.
