PGT: Game 4: Finland 1 - Sweden 2

[behemolari]

Very disappointed for team effort especially their immature mentality. I've never thought Ahokas is competent main coach, still don't.

Lot of guys trying to solo it, Sweden was a real team and deserved win.

 

[Prntscrn]

Is KHL really that bad or why is Eeli Tolvanen such a useless sack of ****?

Top 3 or so are good the rest pretty much sucks. Overhyped league. Very slow too, completely different compared to NHL/AHL and SHL

 

[JianYang]

Not that sad. The better team won

That's irrelevant to what I'm talking about.

If this is a good call in the IIHF, then it has the potential to burn someone in an "even" game.

 

[PatrikBerglund]

The Finnish coach Ahokas has been badly schooled by the Swedish coaches. Embarrassingly so really.

Sweden made this a game between the defenses, Sweden's strength, and Ahokas had no idea what to do.

How so?

 

[sadpanda]

Finland has a lot of potential. I think it will only get better.

Sweden, not so sure. This might be the best they can do. Should be happy with their game today. No flame, of course

 

[TheGoldenJet]

Brannstrom >>> Jokiharju

as predicted.

 

[Jussi]

Very disappointed for team effort especially their mentality. I've never thought Ahokas is competent main coach, still don't.

Lot of guys trying to solo it, Sweden was a real team.

Well he has lead a Finnish junior team to gold in NA, so there's that...

 

[EK47]

Sadly Ginning isn’t looking much better than the Hfboard-crowd predicted. Sandin is a rover looks dangerous everytime he touches the puck. Elvenes is easily the most creative swedish forward.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Kind of thought both teams sucked

Hopefully they'll get stronger as the tournament goes on

 

[LOFIN]

2nd line from Finland was pretty much the only one who showed up. Not going to blame it on GK.

 

[aphyro]

Anyhow the better team lost today... Finland was overall better than Sweden this game. But hey ill take this 3points!

 

[HanSolo]

Kind of thought both teams sucked

Hopefully they'll get stronger as the tournament goes on

Kind of my thinking as well. Sweden had a good first but after the second goal I found the entire game pretty unremarkable.

 

[MarVell]

Brannstrom >>> Jokiharju

as predicted.

I tried to say the same.

 

[HanSolo]

Anyhow the better team lost today... Finland was overall better than Sweden this game. But hey ill take this 3points!

Finland waited until the last 5 minutes to be the better team. Let's be real.

 

[king89]

2nd line from Finland was pretty much the only one who showed up. Not going to blame it on GK.

Yeah, i think the others guys will get an heads up now. Luukkonen was great.

 

[aphyro]

Finland waited until the last 5 minutes to be the better team. Let's be real.

Lets be real Finland was the better team 5v5 Sweden scored two goals in power play and in which 1 of this 2 goals were scored on 5v3 where it shouldent even have been a penalty to begin with.

 

[behemolari]

Well he has lead a Finnish junior team to gold in NA, so there's that...

thats the sad part, because of that they were thinking he knows the job. he is out coached 99% times

 

[FinnishSniper]

Lets be real Finland was the better team 5v5 Sweden scored two goals in power play and in which 1 of this 2 goals were scored on 5v3 where it shouldent even have been a penalty to begin with.

No

 

[timmeh]

Lets be real Finland was the better team 5v5 Sweden scored two goals in power play and in which 1 of this 2 goals were scored on 5v3 where it shouldent even have been a penalty to begin with.

Why shouldn’t it have been a penalty? It was according to the rules, like it or not

 

[CLW]

How so?

The reason Sweden has such a great record is that they play a superb team game. The Swedish coaches game plan was to neutralize the Finnish team's strength, the Finnish forwards, by putting pressure on the Finnish dmen when they had the puck and tie up the Finnish forwards in the neutral zone. Ahokas never had another idea how to get the Finnish game going even after this game plan was obvious. It's no coincidence Sweden's best player, a dman, scored two goals.

The Swedish coaches were relaxed and smiling throughout the game. They knew exactly how Finland wanted to play while Ahokas was clueless.

Sweden absolutely schooled Finland in this game, and I say that as a Finn. Finland has started to produce talent again but they are way behind Sweden's tactical understanding.

 

[Tomas W]

Brännström was very good.

 

[MarVell]

thats the sad part, because of that they were thinking he knows the job. he is out coached 99% times

It seems to me that it’s often blamed on the coaching if Finnish teams/players don’t perform as desired. Are there ANY good coaches in the country?

 

[aphyro]

No

No? so you saying Finland wasent better than Sweden in 5v5?

Why shouldn’t it have been a penalty? It was according to the rules, like it or not

Was it? to me that hit looked pretty clean.

 

[BoldNewLettuce]

how many seconds did Broberg play?

 

[HanSolo]

Lets be real Finland was the better team 5v5 Sweden scored two goals in power play and in which 1 of this 2 goals were scored on 5v3 where it shouldent even have been a penalty to begin with.

Neither team was good 5 on 5 but Sweden was still controlling possession for a majority of the game. You wanna keep the rose colored glasses on and ignore that the Finns need to be much better going forward, be my guest, but you're not correct. I have no dog in this race as an American, and Sweden was better for a majority of the game. Until that late Finland powerplay