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GDT: Playoff round - February 20 - Finland vs South Korea

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2018 Olympic Tournament
Playoff Round

February 20
7:10 AM ET • 1:10 PM CET

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Finland
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
19 Mikko Koskinen
77 Juha Metsola

Defensemen:
4 Tommi Kivistö - 18 Sami Lepistö "A"
50 Miika Koivisto - 38 Juuso Hietanen
42 Miro Heiskanen - 55 Atte Ohtamaa
5 Lasse Kukkonen "C"

Forwards:
13 Julius Junttila - 23 Joonas Kemppainen - 70 Teemu Hartikainen
20 Eeli Tolvanen - 27 Petri Kontiola "A" - 81 Jukka Peltola
37 Mika Pyörälä - 62 Oskar Osala - 65 Sakari Manninen
25 Jonas Enlund - 40 Jarno Koskiranta - 86 Veli-Matti Savinainen
12 Marko Anttila

Scratched:
G 31 Karri Rämö
D 2 Mikko Lehtonen
F 24 Jani Lajunen


South Korea
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
1 Matt Dalton
50 Sung Je Park

Defensemen:
5 Bryan Young - 6 Won Jun Kim
23 Eric Regan - 61 Don Ku Lee
7 Hyon Ho Oh - 44 Alex Plante "A"
3 Yeong Jun Seo

Forwards:
11 Ki Sung Kim - 25 Brock Radunske - 19 Sang Wook Kim
10 Michael Swift - 22 Mike Testwuide - 87 Min Ho Cho
13 Young Jun Lee - 47 Sang Hoon Shin - 27 Jin Hui Ahn
8 Won Jung Kim - 36 Woo Sang Park - 96 Sang Woo Shin
63 Jin Kyu Park

Scratched:
G 41 Kye Hoon Park
D 2 Hyung Gon Cho
F 9 Jung Woo Jeon


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Hopefully Finland doesn't underestimate Korea. CZE beat them only 1-0 so who knows. Switzerland 8-0'd them so dunno what to think. It's a question of match up and I see that Finland is more similar to Czech than Switzerland.

It's for sure that Korea needs some luck, goalie on fire, home crowd support, score the first goal, staying out of the penalty box. Even all that may not be enough.
 
Well if the Finns dont win, I doubt the Finnish players will be able to show themselves in Finland ever again, so they will make sure they win this.
 
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Tomas W said:
Well if the Finns dont win, I doubt the Finnish players will be able to show themselves in Finland ever again, so they will make sure they win this.
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When you bet 500 Euro for South Korea,you could be a rich man,when the koreans to make sensation ;).
 
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Haha... The odds are 250 to 1. :rolly: So €500 would bring in €125,000. Nice enough!

EDIT: I messed that up, those are the odds for Korea winning the entire tournament. Rather small odds, if you ask me! For tonight's game, I'm seeing odds like 30:1 and 40:1, which isn't quite as tempting.
 
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Hopefully Finland doesn't underestimate Korea. CZE beat them only 1-0 so who knows. Switzerland 8-0'd them so dunno what to think. It's a question of match up and I see that Finland is more similar to Czech than Switzerland.

It's for sure that Korea needs some luck, goalie on fire, home crowd support, score the first goal, staying out of the penalty box. Even all that may not be enough.
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CZE had them as first game of the tournament with a bunch of excitement playing in their backyard. Korea looks like they got gassed by the 2nd/3rd against Canada and Switzerland, it looks like they rely on their north americans most of the game. Also Switzerland scored something like 3 or 4 goals against Korea's backup goalie in like 6 shots, Dalton is much better than their backup.

I think Finland should win this easily but sometimes a goalie just says "nope!"
 
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I think our Finnish Lions have very good chance of getting a glorious victory here. The preliminary games were very nice indeed even if they lost to those Swedes in a tightly fought match. The offensive is rolling and I don't think Koreans have a proper way to stop them, unless they ask for help from northern friends. So our Finnish Lions can take this match as a proper finishing practice in anticipation of a probably tougher ordeal against team Canadian.
 
5-1 Finland.

The Koreans hung tough for the first half of the game against the Czech, Swiss, and Canadians but gassed hard in the third. The North Americans have been quieter than expected outside of Dalton who's been excellent. Young has added some much needed physicality.

The result should be similar to the Fins playing Poland or the Ukraine.
 
We know the script. Korea is gonna play a tight checking game to keep it as even as possible in the first two periods and then shit themselves 6 ways from Sunday and get steamrolled letting 5-6 goals in the 3rd. Dalton going to keep this team afloat for as long as they possibly can though

Good luck to the Koreans, but yeesh dem odds are ugly
 
I think it's a bit strange that some players will get one more game than others to collect points in. What I mean is that these qualification for play off round games shouldn't count in an individuals total points. However let's hope we'll take this opportunity to sharpen our game.
 
No more strange than some play-off series going to 7 games and others only to 4. Doesn't mean we shouldn't keep track of the play-offs scoring list.
 
You've clearly got a point, but there are no play-off series in international tournaments. This format is not used in the World Championships either.
 
Yeah, the analogy is that to win the ultimate prize, players from the competing teams don't necessarily need to play the same amount of games. This is perhaps less noticeable in the Stanley Cup play-offs with the spread of 16 to 28 potential play-off games (the two extremes are rare, though, and it's usually somewhere around the middle) than here at the brief Olympic tourney with 6 vs. 7 potential games. At the World Championships, while the top 4 teams play the same amount of games, there's a different anomaly in that the weakest teams playing to avoid relegation, etc., are potentially allowed to pad their scores by playing against weak opponents multiple times compared to if they had made the play-offs. It's just never completely fair in terms of scoring opportunities.
 
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At the World Championships, while the top 4 teams play the same amount of games, there's a different anomaly in that the weakest teams playing to avoid relegation, etc., are potentially allowed to pad their scores by playing against weak opponents multiple times compared to if they had made the play-offs. It's just never completely fair in terms of scoring opportunities.
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The relegation round hasn't existed since 2011 in the World Championship,
 
It still exists at the U20 Championships, for example, and it existed for many years among men as well, and I kept noticing players from the weakest or weaker teams among the tourney's top scorers thanks to that, but it never seemed to bother anyone. It is what it is. If you wanted to be 100% fair, after all, you'd need to give all the other 11 teams a chance to play against Korea at this tourney to pad their scores (with all due respect for Korea's 1-2 performance against the Czechs).
 
Didn't know they had practice matches in the middle of a tournament. :sarcasm:
 
If we don't get a medal in this tournament, I blame Dave Art and Lauri Marjamäki. In this exact order.
 
If Finland wins, that's a two Olympics streak of the unthanked task of eliminating the host.
 
I think Lehtera did that goal just to steal Kontiola's thunder, again.
 
Heiskanen playing much more aggressive on the offensive zone. Probably a result of the gap in talent between the two teams.
 
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