GDT: May 11 • Finland vs. Belarus

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2015 IIHF World Championship
Group A

May 11
10:15 AM ET • 16:15 CET

Finland
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

15 Tuomo Ruutu

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27 Petri Kontiola​

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71 Leo Komarov​

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36 Jussi Jokinen

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16 Aleksander Barkov​

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72 Joonas Donskoi​

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41 Antti Pihlström​

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26 Jarkko Immonen​

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70 Teemu Hartikainen​

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20 Janne Pesonen​

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24 Joonas Kemppainen​

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50 Juhamatti Aaltonen​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

18 Sami Lepistö

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38 Juuso Hietanen​

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28 Anssi Salmela​

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7 Esa Lindell​

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63 Topi Jaakola​

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55 Atte Ohtamaa​

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6 Tuukka Mäntylä​

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2 Jyrki Jokipakka​

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Starter​

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Backup​

35 Pekka Rinne​

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32 Juuse Saros​

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Scratched​

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Details​

F 25 Juha-Pekka Hytönen​

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Healthy​

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F 23 Ossi Louhivaara​

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Healthy​

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G 33 Atte Engren​

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Healthy​

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Belarus
Confirmed lineup.

Left Wing​

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Center​

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Right Wing​

74 Sergei Kostitsyn​

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17 Alexei Kalyuzhniy

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46 Andrei Kostitsyn

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13 Sergei Drozd​

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23 Andrei Stas​

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91 Artur Gavrus​

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11 Alexander Kulakov​

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88 Yevgeniy Kovyrshin​

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61 Andrei Stepanov​

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85 Artyom Volkov​

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77 Alexander Kitarov​

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15 Artyom Demkov​

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27 Alexei Yefimenko​

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Left Defense​

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Right Defense​

89 Dmitriy Korobov

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57 Ivan Usenko​

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25 Oleg Yevenko​

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5 Nikolai Stasenko​

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8 Ilya Shinkevich​

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14 Yevgeniy Lisovets​

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26 Nikita Ustinenko​

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Starter​

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Backup​

35 Kevin Lalande​

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31 Igor Brikun​

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Scratched​

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Details​

F 59 Sergei Demagin​

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Healthy​

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D 22 Oleg Goroshko​

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Healthy​

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G 1 Vitaliy Koval​

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Healthy​

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Officials​

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Referee​

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TBA | -

Referee​

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TBA | -

Linesman​

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TBA | -

Linesman​

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TBA | -

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[Larionov Fan]

Andrei Kostitsyn has been suspended for this match.

http://www.iihfworlds2015.com/en/news/kostitsyn/

Regards,
LF

 

[Finnpin]

Go Suomi Go!

 

[Mestaruus]

Probably 3-1 or 2-0 for Finland.

 

[fouba]

Juuse on uusi mailma mestarihei!

I think Finland is way too big favourite for this match for Belarus has played well.

Still expecting a win for Fin with a clean sheeeeett

 

[JJTT]

Lalande is injured and will not play.

 

[Uncle Scrooge]

Go Suomi Go!

Should've probably mentioned Belarus in Finnish is "white-Russia", so other people than just us Finns get the joke

 

[schmiedi]

How will start today in net for Finland?

 

[JJTT]

How will start today in net for Finland?

Rinne most likely

 

[schmiedi]

i think if he his helthy he should play this game because the risk that Saros will have again a shoutout is high

and then finland must ask the iihf if they can play with two keepers

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

All day I've been waiting for the poster Aki Berg to wake up and come post something here, it's been dorman for a year now so probably won't happen..

reason for Finland's iron clad defence? Aki Berg has come out of retirement to take up the equipment manager's gig and herd the Finnish defenders

 

[JJTT]

All day I've been waiting for the poster Aki Berg to wake up and come post something here, it's been dorman for a year now so probably won't happen..

reason for Finland's iron clad defence? Aki Berg has come out of retirement to take up the equipment manager's gig and herd the Finnish defenders

Looks like he has bulked up a bit

 

[aphyro]

Should've probably mentioned Belarus in Finnish is "white-Russia", so other people than just us Finns get the joke

Well Belarus in Swedish is Vitryssland so yeah White-Russia

 

[Finnpin]

Aki Berg is cool guy. Made few millions in NHL and still after retirement works in hockey world, even though it's a work that doesn't get respect from regular fans. Go Aki Go!

 

[IceHockeyDude]

I gues Aki Berg is happy even with a poor salary-sheet

 

[Urbanskog]

Should've probably mentioned Belarus in Finnish is "white-Russia", so other people than just us Finns get the joke

It's "White Russia" in most languages.

 

[SoupyFIN]

Hartikainen in, Louhivaara out. Otherwise the same line-up as in the last game, with Rinne returning obviously.

http://leijonat.fi/maajoukkueet/mie...ko-venajan-kimppuun-rinne-palaa-maalille.html

 

[Faterson]

The fifth straight shutout, please. It would be perverse for Finland to stop now, when Slovakia urgently needs Finland and Norway to beat Belarus.

 

[FiLe]

So Belarus loses their most effective player, A.Kostitsyn, due to a suspension and thanks to Lalande being out play their 3rd string goalie, Koval.

Not saying this will be easy as they still have the necessary tools to do some damage if our guys fall asleep, but still...

 

[Matti_A]

White again huh?

Did team Finland forget to bring their blue jerseys? They are much nicer anyway.

 

[od71]

White again huh?

Did team Finland forget to bring their blue jerseys? They are much nicer anyway.

as far as I know it depends on a bench team sits. On the right bench always white jerseys

 

[Saekki*]

as far as I know it depends on a bench team sits. On the right bench always white jerseys

Home team chooses jerseys first, Finnish will always pick white.

E: If possible that is, against Sweden we might have to use blue ones.

 

[Gsus]

Home team chooses jerseys first, Finnish will always pick white.

E: If possible that is, against Sweden we might have to use blue ones.

With the blue ones we have good memories. U20 Gold, 6-1 win 2011 WC Gold game.

 

[FiLe]

Rinne just broke the single goalie shutout record, btw.

 

[44]

Aaltonen with two giveaways in the offensive zone on that one shift. Not good