IIHF World ChampionshipDiscuss International Tournaments like the WJC, Olympics, and World Cup, as they take place, or discuss past tournaments. performances.
I assume this is pretty much challenger team for Russia with all the top guns playing in the superseries? Shots 20-3 for finland in the 1st...
Yes, their WJC-team minus some injured guys is playing in Canada right now. Finland had 3 PP's vs 0.5 for Russia though. An expensive stream (11€) can be found here: http://digitalvideodesign.solidtango.com/
There's a finnish guy on ice whose like 5'4 and he is facing russian D who is like 6'6/7
i commented this on Russian forums, it's stupid to pick such big d-men to play in europe on big ice with european teams, I bet finnland has a tremendous speed adv, the score is 2:0 meanwhile. most of the russian team here is u19 (94 born) guys to watch Osnovin, Barabanov, Romantsev, Mikhailov, Khlopotov, Kadeikin, Sorokin
i commented this on Russian forums, it's stupid to pick such big d-men to play in europe on big ice with european teams, I bet finnland has a tremendous speed adv, the score is 2:0 meanwhile. most of the russian team here is u19 (94 born) guys to watch Osnovin, Barabanov, Romantsev, Mikhailov, Khlopotov, Kadeikin, Sorokin
I think avg for the whole tournament is under 19. Sorokin looks really good out there.
i commented this on Russian forums, it's stupid to pick such big d-men to play in europe on big ice with european teams, I bet finnland has a tremendous speed adv, the score is 2:0 meanwhile. most of the russian team here is u19 (94 born) guys to watch Osnovin, Barabanov, Romantsev, Mikhailov, Khlopotov, Kadeikin, Sorokin
Maybe it's just for development, i.e. giving ice time to the raw 6'6 project dman instead of developed 5'9 dman, who probably has very little potential to become a world class player. It's something Finland should be doing more actually, it doesn't really matter who wins these game anyway.
Only Wennberg stands out as a positive. Lindholm is dishing the puck to a teammate and then the play goes dead every time. He needs to take some own initiatives, he's playing the game like he would in the SEL.
Only Wennberg stands out as a positive. Lindholm is dishing the puck to a teammate and then the play goes dead every time. He needs to take some own initiatives, he's playing the game like he would in the SEL.
That's the problem with european top playmakers (too smart as hockey players compared to rest of the teenagers) they start to shine after they get's actually good linemates whom they can abuse. Example: Teravainen was on exact same situation last year at 4Nations, then some swedes started to bash him something like: pfft TT is 2nd round talent he can't play he will never make it to NHL etcetc.
So, should i start to bash him now that he can't carry the team
