Euro Hockey Tour: EHT 2020-2021 • Karjala Cup • Nov. 2-8 [CZE/FIN/RUS/SWE]
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SoundAndFury
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A literal laugh out loud on this one.Should've sent the U18 team.
Yeah, those Liiga players shouldn't be facing the raw might of fully grown russian teenagers. Not fair.Should've sent the U18 team.
themelkman
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Finnish national team from 2002 to 2005 was mostly shit like this. (World Cup -04 doesn´t count)
Finns and Swedes cancelled their U20 games scheduled for these days. They can't blame Russia for that.
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yeah he looked so good
That was pretty funny but the rest of his game was decent
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Even when we beat Sweden, they usually look better. Today was not like that. I was actually calm watching the game and that never happens as it's usually over by the first. In retrospect, I wish we'd left behind some of our better players and brought more young ones.
I really liked the way Russia U20 played in this game against Finland. It reminded me of the old Soviet style of hockey of the 1980s. I read from somewhere that Larionov made these boys watch some old Soviet games from the 1980s and tries to teach them to play this style of hockey.
themelkman
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Very humiliating loss for this Finnish team ofc this isnt very good quality Finland maybe 6th-8th best possible national team with over half of this team national team rookies from Finland, but still very humiliating to lose with good/decent liiga players who are seasoned pro's 6-2 againts Russian juniors today.. Same calibre loss as againts Hungary 2009. Jalonen must be ashamed atm playing in home field so patheticly after all we are talking about defending world champion not Italy or France leveled hockey nation here. Then after all this was meaningless game firstly Wch 21 propably wont even be played it will be cancelled because of Belarus/Covid situations most likely and if it would be played its likely almost no one from this tournament would make it to any of these four team's rosters.
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It's hard to blame the coach. What is he supposed to do if the whole team decides to just mail it in? If this was a club - sure, but he had what, 3 days with these guys? To many of them, this was the first NT camp at all.
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Eye of Ra
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The only good thing he did was 1 good shot. only good players for Sweden was Friberg, Bristedt and Wedin. The rest was shit.
I think it's a very different situation losing to Hungary in a symmetrical test of strength, they really did humiliate themselves in that one and the Hungarians likewise had one of their more memorable victories that they can celebrate. Russia on the other hand sending their WJC team for an additional training camp was just poor taste and disrespectful, although the hosts played like shit and have to take responsibility for that, there never was any good outcome available to them.
Aha, so the Finns' loss was a symbol of protest against Russia's disrespect? Good to know.
On ice they lost because they played like shit against a team that played well. But by sending the WJC team the Russians willingly created a situation in which their opponents were left in an unfairly asymmetrical situation with no good outcome possible.
Asymmetrical? What's next? The average age of teams will have to match before the game?
