NikoEhlers
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Denmark shouldve taken their chances in the first, getting behind with a finish team that plays tight was a too big challenge
GDT: Quarterfinals - May 19 - Finland (5) vs Denmark (1)
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Denmark was completely a one line team. Could have possibly been a bit more interesting if they had Nielsen and Bodker.
No wonder. That Eller line was practically playing every second shift... The. Entire. Game.
Meanwhile, Denmark's 4th line only got an odd shift here and there. I can understand it if they don't have the quality down there, but in that case you need to run up the score early - otherwise you're going to be gassed by the time third rolls around. And that's when you just don't win games on this level.
Have you looked on ice times, The 1 line didn't had very much more time on the ice than the second and third line.
Worst game by Finland thus far. Not a surprise though because of Barkovs absence, a guy like him who plays 20 mins a game and dominates every shift. I hope he's back in the semis, Finland really need him.
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Eller eller Eller eller Eller.
Men tack, Danmark, for a clean and efforted game. Keep it up, looking for to see three of them cross flags for future QFs and beyond.
Quonis
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Dansk Metal is one of the major trade unions in Denmark. Mostly for workers who work in electronic or mechanical trades. Metalworkers, blacksmiths, plumbers, mechanics, constructions workers and lots of similar trades.
Pretty happy with our performance this year, even though we're disappointed right now. 5-1 sounds worse than it should have been, I think we played a reasonable game.
Congratulations, Finland. Now go win this tournament, please.
Justinov
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Actually disagree here.
The Finnish team held back to save energy all the 3rd period and play security-defensive-first hockey and only got the two last goal from the expected Danish goalkeeper leaving the ice and then a typical Danish "after goal scored against us meltdown".
So 3-1 would have been a fair result and I think it would correspond better to how the match looked.
Finland only has 28 shots, so 5 goals are a bit over the top (only Kazakhstan had less against us??).
Eller 21:14
Hansen 19:21
Ehlers 18:42
Storm 18:54
Jensen 18:08
Madsen 17:30
Christensen 16:27
Green 13:57
Poulsen 12:14
Bau 8:49
Bjorkstrand 7:14
Starkov 4:55
Yeah, there's only a 5-7 minute disrepancy between 1st and 3rd alone. No difference at all.
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Btw why is it Danmark? Isn't it cultivated farmland mostly, rather than uncultivated foresty hunting/frontier mark? Even Finland is land because of the southwestern farming area of the modern-day province of Finland Proper which the name was originally restricted to.
(been entertained, now grave education)
(been entertained, now grave education)
Justinov
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Mark means border-area:
The Danish march (Dan-mark) is actually geographically Holsten which was the forested border-area between the Frankish Empire and the Danish Kingdom. So it was the Frankish word that became the name for the country internationally.
Småland was another forested border area between Danes and Swedes.
Good question what Danes actually called it in Viking times. Probably Daneveldi? "Rule of the Danes".
The leader of the army was in the middle ages called the Marsk in Danish.
In English it is Marshall.
Matti_A
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If I'm allowed to play the devil's advocate for a second; you take away the own goal by Denmark and that post shot goes in late in the game we'd be looking at overtime in this game.
Hockey is a game of small margins were puck luck plays a big part no matter what people say.
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Thanks a bunch, I forgot the marsh area there.
Danes quite likely were called that at the Viking times, as the settlement that was about half of the current England was called Danelaw/Danelag back then.
QnebO
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Now I see meaning of this drink!
Edit: It is after Finnish Marsalkka Mannerheim. Well, could've been!
Justinov
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Yeah the area of England that was ruled under Danish law.
Which is quite funny because Denmark itself didn't have a "Danish law" for all the country before 1683!
You had until then separate laws for Jylland, Sjælland and Skåne (the last one actually preserved in a middle age manuscript written in runes).
So a march meaning a boggy place and it is related to "border areas" as it is very hard to move through, but a "Mark" in Frankish is just a border area whether it is marshy, forested or mountains.
The Franks has a Frisian Mark (marshy) and a Spanish Mark (mountains) beside the Mark to the Danes (forested and marshy in the western part).
Justinov
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Now I see meaning of this drink!
Marskens Snaps = The Snaps of the Marsk
Could also be Marsk Stig Andersen's favourite drink as he was the most famous one - accused of murdering a Danish King and then later became a pirate (viking).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stig_Andersen_Hvide
PS: I see that it is actually a vodka.........adjusted for the Finnish pallet!
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That may have been a hyperbole, but the point still stands. If the disrepancy is like that, you're going to have trouble late in the game if you're trying to catch up instead of protecting a lead.
Tightening up towards the end is one thing, doing so from the beginning of the game tells that you really don't have much business winning in the first place - it would essentially require the game of a lifetime to do so.
Something I noticed about the Finnish powerplay. For a while now Laine hadn't had proper shooting chances despite people screaming for Hietanen to pass to him. Often Jokinen had tried a desperate pass to him only to have it intercepted and puck cleared. After Jokinen took a few shots at the goal himself (and the one failed shot by Hietanen) Laine suddenly had two shots. It makes me wonder if the opponent was covering him too well for the others to pass to him until they forced the attention to themselves.
Laine not getting to shoot as much as he did early in the tournament definitely is not just because our other guys have stopped feeding him. The defensive diamond trying to play him out is actually blatantly clear at times.
Rather a typical qf when there is a clear favourite and pressure free and pretty good underdog facing each other. Very rarely it's that easy going for the favourite. (Well, Russia-Germany today might be an exception...)
