GDT: Group E • 05/14/10 • Finland 2, Belarus 0

[Systemfel]

2010 IIHF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP | GROUP E
MAY 14 • 20:15 CET • 2:15 PM ET
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Lanxess Arena, Cologne, Germany

Finland
Official lineup.

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
36 Jussi Jokinen	26 Jarkko Immonen	20 Antti Miettinen
24 Sami Kapanen (C)	27 Petri Kontiola	50 Juhamatti Aaltonen
40 Antti Pihlström	15 Juha-Pekka Hytönen	29 Lauri Korpikoski
71 Leo Komarov	23 Riku Hahl	45 Oskar Osala
-	Extra Forward:	22 Tommi Santala

Left Defense	Right Defense
41 Pasi Puistola	3 Petteri Nummelin (A)
21 Janne Niskala	44 Sami Vatanen
7 Mikko Mäenpää	5 Lasse Kukkonen (A)
6 Topi Jaakola	-

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
35 Pekka Rinne	31 Petri Vehanen

Scratched	Reason
G 31 Iiro Tarkki	Healthy
C 52 Jori Lehterä	Healthy

Belarus
Official lineup.

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
18 Alexei Ugarov	71 Alexei Kalyuzhny (A)	84 Mikhail Grabovski
59 Sergei Demagin	26 Andrei Stas	19 Dmitri Meleshko
18 Alexander Kulakov	88 Evgeni Kovyrshin	16 Mikhail Stefanovich
68 Yaroslav Chupris	8 Andrei Mikhalev	82 Artem Senkevich
-	Extra Forward:	13 Sergei Drozd

Left Defense	Right Defense
25 Sergei Kolosov	24 Ruslan Salei (C)
5 Nikolai Stasenko	7 Vladimir Denisov
91 Kirill Gotovets	52 Alexander Riadinski
43 Viktor Kostyuchenok (A)	-

Starting Goalie	Backup Goalie
31 Andrei Mezin	1 Vitaly Koval

Scratched	Reason
G 2 Sergei Shabanov	Healthy
D 4 Alexander Makritski	-

Officials

-	-
Rick Looker	Referee
Patrik Sjöberg	Referee
Roger Arm	Linesman
Peter Sabelström	Linesman

[FinHockey]

Finland's lineups:

1. Jussi Jokinen-Jarkko Immonen-Antti Miettinen

Petteri Nummelin-Pasi Puistola

2. Sami Kapanen-Petri Kontiola-Juhamatti Aaltonen

Janne Niskala-Sami Vatanen

3. Lauiri Korpikoski-Juha-Pekka Hytönen-Antti Pihlström

Lasse Kukkonen-Mikko Mäenpää

4. Leo Komarov-Riku Hahl-Oskar Osala

Topi Jaakola

Goalie: Pekka Rinne

No Santala or Lehterä.

[mattihp]

2-1 Finland.

Aaltonen and Miettinen score.

Ugarov was awesome with his skating and energy in the olympics and will be dangerous with more icetime. I believe he will score on a magnificient pass from Grabovski.

[Savolainen]

Hahl or Hytonen should be replaced by Lehterä..
But at least Osala is playing and Santala isn't.

[mattihp]

Originally Posted by Savolainen

Hahl or Hytonen should be replaced by Lehterä..
But at least Osala is playing and Santala isn't.

I don't think Lehterä is one bit better in that kind of role than Hahl nor Hytönen. Those guys can skate better and have had better games than Lehterä.

[Finnswiss]

Originally Posted by Savolainen

Hahl or Hytonen should be replaced by Lehterä..
But at least Osala is playing and Santala isn't.

I also don't know why you prefer Lehterä over Hahl and Hytonen. Lehterä couldn't impress me too, he hasn't showed better performance than Hahl or Hytonen so far. Additionally this game the Finns have to win anyway otherwise they don't deserve the quarterfinal. The deciding game for the quarterfinal for the Finns should be Monday against Slovakia.

[mattihp]

There is no browserbased stream I suppose?

[dfk711*]

Link anyone? The only link I found isn't working...

[mattihp]

Is anyone watching the game? Please give us updates

[dfk711*]

http://www.atdhe.net/19153/watch-finland-vs-belarus

Found one that works

[mattihp]

Rick Looker is one of the refs :O oh no.

[mattihp]

Originally Posted by dfk711

http://www.atdhe.net/19153/watch-finland-vs-belarus

Found one that works

Thanks

commentators sound really weird. Like several voices on top of each other.

[dfk711*]

Ahh so close, off the post

[mattihp]

Mezin is still a really good goalie at this level. I have no idea why he has no NHL stint in his past.

[mattihp]

Belorussians seem to have NO confidence with the puck, giving it away constantly. But it doesn't look like Finland wants to capitalize too much on that o.O

[mattihp]

Close again, but Mezin made it look easy.

[dfk711*]

Come on Kapanen, bury one of those chances already

[mattihp]

Sami Kapanen close again! He seems to have found some old time energy.

[mattihp]

Good play by the Komarov line.

[Blank]

Finland making the goalie look like a Vezina candidate again..

[mattihp]

Smart play by Jussi, challenging Mezin behind the net. No goal yet though

[mattihp]

Mezin with a save on Mäenpääs shot

[mattihp]

Originally Posted by Blank

Finland making the goalie look like a Vezina candidate again..

Well. Mezin is the best goalie Finland has faced this far. By quite a bit.

[mattihp]

First period ended 0-0.

Finland with 12 shots, Belarus with 5.

Some good tendencies, especially from Kapanen and Immonen(!).

[dfk711*]

Originally Posted by mattihp

First period ended 0-0.

Finland with 12 shots, Belarus with 5.

Some good tendencies, especially from Kapanen and Immonen(!).

Finland controlled most of the play, they just couldn't find the net. One post and a break away chance for Kapanen.