Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2019

[Belle 937]

Congrats Finland. Good luck in the Gold medal game.

[phelps 7,649]

nice game (maybe lacking a bit on the physical side) with really unexpected final result...

 

I didn't really think it was possible for Lankinen to keep a clean sheet against the Big red Machine and all of their NHL stars...it was definitely a great performance and a tactical masterpiece by the Finnish coaching staff...

 

in the end, I proved right once again on the Russians...they can build groups of players with loads of talent, but they don't play like a team, they never show that pride...I never see that "fire in their eyes" as it is for many other teams...

 

it's really difficult to win tournaments relying only on being the most skilled players on the ice...sport (and especially team sports) is more than just that...

[hckošice 14,778]

Missed the first semifinal, but now back at time for the second one, let s start the totallympics live ticker

 

vs one hell of a match we are going to have. Matt Murray the Canadian goalie celebrating today his birthday facing one of the best playing teams of the tournament but also the most penalized team (43 two minutes penalties already in this tournament by the Czechs) and knowing the fantastic power play efficiency of this Canadian team it´s going to be really interesting to see how the Czechs will held this issue

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Canada with higher amount of shots on goal so far, but the Czechs shots looks more dangerous in the first 5 minutes

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GOAL   Mark Stone opened the score at 5:18 assisted by Stecher.

 

1-0 Canada

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Thats what the Czechs needed, delayed penalty..

[hckošice 14,778]

Jonathan Marchessault send to the penalty box for 2 minutes for Slashing.

 

Time 06:26

 

30th CZE power play in this tournament they scored in 6 of them

CAN played 20 times shorthanded and conceded only 6 goals

 

Face-off won by Canada

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Huge save of Murray after a deflected puck from Palát.

 

Canada survived the first PK, in full strength

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Quick return to the first semifinal

 

Results after 1st Period:

 

Russia - Finland  0-0  (0-0, -,-)

 

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Results after 2nd Period:

 

Russia - Finland  0-0  (0-0, 0-0,-)