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GDT: WHC - Great Britain vs Finland

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FinPanda

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Finland today:

Mikael Granlund-Sakari Manninen-Teemu Hartikainen

Mikko Lehtonen-Juuso Hietanen

Toni Rajala-Valtteri Filppula-Jere Sallinen

Miro Heiskanen-Mikael Seppälä

Harri Pesonen-Juho Lammikko-Joel Armia

Niklas Friman-Sami Vatanen

Saku Mäenalanen-Hannes Björninen-Marko Anttila

Esa Lindell-Atte Ohtamaa

G: Olkinuora (Tuohimaa)

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Lets go Finland! Excited to see Heiskanen play.
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Eventhough GB have lost all its' games so far, this is not just a walk in a park and if nothing else as FinPanda mentioned, it will be exciting to see Heiskanen and Lindell aswell. Not sure why Säteri is not as a back-up goalie it seems like Olkinuora is locked as the number one goal keeper now, incase it was not clear before.
 
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IceHockeyDude said:
Eventhough GB have lost all its' games so far, this is not just a walk in a park and if nothing else as FinPanda mentioned, it will be exciting to see Heiskanen and Lindell aswell. Not sure why Säteri is not as a back-up goalie it seems like Olkinuora is locked as the number one goal keeper now, incase it was not clear before.
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What? That GB team is Mestis level.
 
IceHockeyDude said:
Eventhough GB have lost all its' games so far, this is not just a walk in a park and if nothing else as FinPanda mentioned, it will be exciting to see Heiskanen and Lindell aswell. Not sure why Säteri is not as a back-up goalie it seems like Olkinuora is locked as the number one goal keeper now, incase it was not clear before.
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I don't think it means that at all. If anything it probably means Säteri is #1 and having a rest today.
 
Finland playes all goalies (even if it means playing as a net opener) to get the great Team spirit, so that is why Tuohimaa is in. And good warm up/getting into the tournament mood for Heiskanen/Lindell. Separating them means that at least in this (and most probably the next) one Heiskanen and Lindell get small minutes in comparison what they bare used to. So far (average/game) top 6 defencemen in the tournament:

1. Fehervary (SVK) 25:47
2. Jones (USA) 25:19
3. Auvitu (FRA) 25:11
4. Schmidt (USA) 23:29
5. Lauridsen M (DEN) 23:15
6. Trivellato (ITA) 23:14
 
Its quite increidble how consistently Jalonen plays all his 4 pairings so equally. I do hope though that Heiskanen will play a bit more when it truly matters.
 
Patrik Barkov said:
What? That GB team is Mestis level.
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Yes, I would say so as well. To be clear, Mestis level players are still good hockey players who can skate and shoot and so on, and it is not possible to deliver just a 50 or 60 % performance and win against such players. I have been rather impressed by the GB team so far, I was afraid they might get smashed with scores like 1-12 but no, they are playing good. But still, they are quite clearly the weakest team in the group, possibly in the whole tournament.
 
Patrik Barkov said:
What? That GB team is Mestis level.
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Anything can happen in one game and every team should be taken seriously. It's not a coindcidense GB is playing in this tournament. Are you saying the result of this game is decided before it has even started? Finland is the clear favorite, but was it the Olympics or last WHCs where Finland lost to Kazakstan?
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I don't think it means that at all. If anything it probably means Säteri is #1 and having a rest today.
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Säteri's confidence is not the highest at the moment. Olkinuora was the number one goalie in last year's WHCs, but yeah the number two during the Olympics. Olkinuora played well against USA and Säteri was shaky against Sweden. Olkinuora has a better record in this tournament and I hope he continues against the Czechs.
 
IceHockeyDude said:
Anything can happen in one game and every team should be taken seriously. It's not a coindcidense GB is playing in this tournament. Are you saying the result of this game is decided before it has even started? Finland is the clear favorite, but was it the Olympics or last WHCs where Finland lost to Kazakstan?

Säteri's confidence is not the highest at the moment. Olkinuora was the number one goalie in last year's WHCs, but yeah the number two during the Olympics. Olkinuora played well against USA and Säteri was shaky against Sweden. Olkinuora has a better record in this tournament and I hope he continues against the Czechs.
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I'm leaning towards Olkinuora too, but feel like Jalonen might disagree. Anyway since it's b2b games Säteri plays tomorrow and then the one that starts vs Czechia is #1(barring a meltdown in that game).
 
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Can´t really watch this game because it will be just one of those finnish games against the lesser teams. Low scoring and making the opponents goalie a hero. Finland will most definitely win this but I wouldn´t be surprised if we lose against Austria with Säteri letting in some easy goals.
 
Armia looking at almost the entire net. I'd like to see who stick checked him there to keep that out.
 
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