I cannot argue with that. Although Jalonen did make a mistake after the goal and he was quite lucky to escape with it. Russians generated a lot of chances in the last ten minutes.
But as I said earlier. It's one game. Finns are always good at those. Seven game series? Russians win, period. It is completely irrelevant to the result today, but it is important for the Russian fans to understand in their state of defeat. That was a good team, a better than many Russians have iced. It wasn't a well coached team but not many Russian teams have been since CCCP. But the basic structure is sound. There is easily enough talent there and lately this year included I think there is more of team first attitude as well. It is terrible to lose, and we'll see how my Canada does later; and you might want to switch the coach, too - but Russia is not in a bad shape and this game is irrelevant in the big picture. Any team can fall to this Finland - in one game.
