GDT: Semifinals - May 21 - Finland (3) vs Russia (1)
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shtorm2005
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Funny how that video tries to pass the Jormakka incident as something that happened in the final game, when in reality it happened in an earlier game - you can even clearly see that he's wearing a white jersey while through the rest of it all the Finns are wearing blue. 
While there was plenty of shady stuff going on, I just can't take that vid seriously. The guy who cut and posted it should be solidly spanked and anyone who posts it should be smacked upside the head.
While there was plenty of shady stuff going on, I just can't take that vid seriously. The guy who cut and posted it should be solidly spanked and anyone who posts it should be smacked upside the head.
jj cale
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Gsus
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That tells much really.
I see this game as a deciding factor for Finland if they will get the gold. If you can beat Russia in their capital's home ice, you can beat the final opponent (just like they did already in the prems eventho those games are history).
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Canada can never be taken lightly even though Finland seems to have better defensive forwards and goalie.
Would be very good if that is the case. Russia is no Denmark and knowing their home game reffing, we'd need all the help we could get. I wonder if we might see them trying first of all swapping the Ds in PPs and secondarily, having someone like Aho/Granlund instead of Koivu/Jokinen as the playmakers. Probably too much to ask.
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jj cale
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I'm sick of this underdog ****.
You guys lay on **** all the time.
I don;t buy it.......................................4000 people playing all the time.
And every one of them is playing hockey.
You're no underdog.
It depends on the opposition, you know. In this tournament, Finland is the stronger team on paper vs. everybody save for Canada and Russia.
Finland already beat Canada, so it's hard to call them underdogs if they meet again. That game will start on equal footing.
Russia is still the favorite for this game however. That makes Finland the underdog.
jj cale
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Pfft.
Russia is still the fave but in no way are they garunteed to win.
But it certainly won't be some big lapland upset........................Finland is more then capable of beating those guys.
Who do their fans think they are fooling anyway?
Gsus
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I'm not sure how my post relates to being the underdog? I just said that it won't be an easy task for Finland to beat Russia who have their infernal home crowd behind them. And it wouldn't be an easy task to any other country either.
I actually said in my previous post that I'm pretty confident in my team.
We are just hoping that it doesn't happen again. I think every other hockey fan would feel the same way if their team had lost the Golden game same way. It's no coincidence those refs have not been seeing another minute on international game since that game.
Isn't being underdog the opposite of being the favorite? And both teams can't be favorites. At best they're at equal footing, but that is not the case here. As good as Finland has played, Russia still has clear material advantage.
Unless there's some term that describes a team that is not the favorite, but is not at a massive disadvantage either?
jj cale
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I can't wait for them to have the "material advantage" against poor Finland.
I can't lose in this game.
It's a win-win situation.
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I had an anxious feeling about Canada but Finland dominated them. Finland has never iced this good WHC team.
Gsus
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No, I don't mean like 2007.
I mean like 2016. In Finland the mentality back then was basicly that semifinal was already a big accomplishment. Since finnish hockey has risen they want more, they want the third gold of the year for this country. I think this team has what it takes to win the gold and if we beat the host team, I don't have the same kind of "fear" in the gold game.
My news feed tells me that Oleg Znarok (the russian coach) could face a suspension as he allegedly talked something about killing a reporter or smth
Here we go again.
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I saddens me that it gets completely forgotten that on their part Russia had been dominating the tourney from the get-go, while our PP and PK had been abysmal and getting to QF hadn't even been in our hands in the end. We could cling on well 5-on-5 on the finale, even controlling the game time to time, but we had enough chances of our own on PP which amounted to nothing while the Russians had a deadly PP. We would have had a better chance maybe at it, if not for the reffing, but it wasn't exactly them who robbed us. The end result wasn't a huge crime, considering the whole tourney.
I'd rather talk of this year's WHC. We gots a PP and PK now.
The biggest weapon Finland would have vs Russia is that Russians, especially at home under massive pressure, have difficulty staying cool -> stupid penalties -> capitalize on PP. Sadly, Finnish PP has not been very effective for quite some time and because of ref issues I'm not sure if we are even going to see many penalties.
If this happens, Finland would have to outplay Russia and I just have quite some difficulty seeing that happening considering our coach's approach to the game. Certain players would need to truly clutch it up if Finland wants to advance to the finals.
If this happens, Finland would have to outplay Russia and I just have quite some difficulty seeing that happening considering our coach's approach to the game. Certain players would need to truly clutch it up if Finland wants to advance to the finals.
Losing to Finland would be painful , but not even close to 2007 painful when we had a 14 year old gold drought , top team with Malkin and Ovechkin, winning every game including round robin vs Finland and then losing the semi final on that stupid goal.
That was very painful
That was very painful
