Olympics: GDT 13 feb Finland vs Sweden

[mattihp]

Fantenberg must be smirking. But better not be playing when Komarov plays.

 

[Gsus]

Very light touch and he can avoid the goalie if he wants to.

Very light touch.

 

[King 88]

Very light touch and he can avoid the goalie if he wants to.

Ok sure buddy open your eyes maybe?

 

[karhukissa]

This is ridiculous

 

[David OSullivan]

Omg. That was hilarious.

New rule. Crosscheck one of the oppositions players into your goalie for pp time. And they watch replays.

What a joke.

 

[mattihp]

Kemiläinen looks shook up. Foot or ankle?

 

[Tmu84]

Fantenberg's crosscheck was far from light, but i think the rules don't allow changing the penaltied player..

So far entertaining game

 

[Kezaster]

Finnish C team versus Swedish C team looks pretty entertaining.

 

[David OSullivan]

Very light touch and he can avoid the goalie if he wants to.

Ha ha. Seriously man. We all have our bias here but you know that was a bs call. The Finnish pp call was light enough but that call and the fact the viewed replays is a complete head scratcher.

 

[Jyri]

1x free coach challenge per perioid for penalties whould be in place.

 

[karhukissa]

Sweden plays exactly like i thought, super aggressive and lights out press. It's been working well but there's a risk of overplaying and finns have skill to turns those into 2 on 1's and dangerous scoring chances.

 

[Tmu84]

Finnish C team versus Swedish C team looks pretty entertaining.

Thanks to games played on NHL-sized ice makes this much more entertaining to watch. If this was big sized rink, I'd bet we'd be watching a snooze fest...

 

[Kezaster]

Thanks to games played on NHL-sized ice makes this much more entertaining to watch. If this was big sized rink, I'd bet we'd be watching a snooze fest...

Exactly what I've been thinking, such a good call using the smaller rink.

 

[David OSullivan]

Yep. Sweden looked good there. Very hard working team. Finland not creating a great deal yet. Hopefully to that will turn.

 

[Kezaster]

Also Fins won't be winning this game if they don't start doing a better job getting under from swedish forescheck pressure and Swedes are crossing our blueline with way too much ease.

 

[illone84]

the game needs more intensity. fin needs to go down 1 zip and then the blue engine will turn on lol

 

[king89]

Sweden plays exactly like i thought, super aggressive and lights out press. It's been working well but there's a risk of overplaying and finns have skill to turns those into 2 on 1's and dangerous scoring chances.

They look better then I tought, I'm shocked lol.

 

[mattihp]

Anton Lander is 50% forehead

 

[Elias40]

But yeah, I like it. I watched Slovakia-Latvia in the morning and I need to see quality hockey, the match was horrible and if Slafkovsky hadn't played, I wouldn't even turn it on.

The Swedes do not dwell on any combination of how to get the puck into the zone, there will be one longer pass, a corner throw and a fight for the puck, which they are still winning and are aggressive enough. The few chances arose in this way, when the Finnish defenders lost the fight and the Swedes shot the goal immediately after gaining the puck and want to reach the free puck.

Swedish exclusion ok, JDL struck Antilles with a hockey stick, on the other hand I'm not so sure. Bengtsson's cross was on Aaltonen, but far enough away from the goal, and only Aaltonen must know if he could correct his fall so as not to hit Hellberg.

 

[mattihp]

Fantenberg, not Bengtsson.


I also was conflictwd when Björninen first was hooked, then held but still opted to play the puck instead of embellishing. Wow have i changed.. I used to despise embellishing and revel when a player plays through it.

 

[Kezaster]

ok Jalonen show us what you got, you wanna coach in NA this is a pretty good opportunity to show your stuff.

 

[mattihp]

It's uncommon to see Björninen lose faceoffs

 

[mattihp]

Swedes are physically strong. I widh Komarov had one more step.

 

[mattihp]

Sloppy penalty..

 

[Jyri]

Cross-checking