Oh, really? In all honesty, i can't recollect the last time we had SO MANY 100% opportunities against any team?! We should have scored at least 10 goals, but for your goalie (Ovechkin alone should've scored 3) - but the puck just would not go in, invariably finding your keeper's body or, at times, he played really well.
It also says tons about your adequacy and common sense when u pour accolades on your goalie for great performance and bash the attacking team for "poor effort". If u are reasonable and adequate, u can't seat on both chairs: today's victory is 10000% kudos to Lassilla. He bought u this game almost single-handedly.
But as I said it's basically what I wanted:
1) I saw a clearly improved Russian team, playing much better team hockey and creating dozens of scoring chances, however still with problems in defense.
2) Now we got a chance of playing Canadians in the QF to have a second go at avenging our vancouver loss (the first minor one was a 5-2 win at the last worlds and the last should happen in Sochi). It's gonna be verrry interesting, whatever the outcome!
And u, finns, have some fun just for now, little boys, at the expense of this INCREDIBLY, UNFATHOMABLY, UNBELIEVABLY LUCKY win. You are very unlikely to get a medal at this WC anyway