GDT: Finland - Italy 12:05 CET 02-16-2006

Fredrik Norrena will be starting goalie for the Lions.

Let's say 6-1 Finland.

Selänne: :bow:
O.J: :handclap:
Ruutu: :yo:
Nemo: :yo:
Koivu: :teach:

The Lion roars!

If someone has full line-ups, please post them!

6-2 Finland.

I'll be dissapointed if we can't score 10+ goals today.
Italy should have lost most of it's mental strenght against big brother Canada.
Ikken should get the SO too.

Finland get ready to be booed!

I think the best way to describe this game is a goal scoring practise session for team Finland. I am disappointed if Team Finland doesn't score more than five goals. I addition to that, a shutout would be nice but not important. At the end the victory is all that matter but I'd expect a nice win for us from this game.

(Finland 10 - 0 Italy)

alright, game is underway, see you all after the 1st

You can follow the game from internet:

http://www.yle.fi/urheilu/mediasali/torino/torinostream4.html

You can follow the game from internet:

http://www.yle.fi/urheilu/mediasali/torino/torinostream4.html

don't post those links .... too many watchers results in server crashes :eek:

Finland are gonna waste them if they play like they did over the Swiss

Go Teemu! I'm expecting a hat-trick today!

6-1

N.Kapanen
O.J X2
Teemu
Ruutu
M.Koivu

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Tuzzolini

Jussi stopped on a breakway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by an Italian goalie! LOL

Is Muzzatti in goal again?

Is Muzzatti in goal again?
Hell is in goal for Italy this time.

Is Muzzatti in goal again?
No. Gunther Hell is in goal for Team Italy.

Hahaha Italy has hell in goal :biglaugh:

Jussi stopped on a breakway!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by an Italian goalie! LOL
Yeah, weak finishing attempt by J.Jokinen. He should have scored.

Hahaha Italy has hell in goal :biglaugh:
Don't laugh. He has stopped two breakaways when I write this. He could very well make hell for Team Finland if he continues to play like this.

Italian goalie seems to be playing a helluva game :)

one hell of a goalie

our only idea on powerplays seems to be shoot from the blueline.. they need to try a russian powerplay, pass the puck around round round then shoot from lot closer..

Some people just require a big stage to break out on, maybe this is the chance for Hell to break loose.

Maybe if Italy and Slovakia both get through, we could see Satan take on Hell, that'd be a fun match-up.

But seriously, I can't watch the game at the moment but was wondering how Saku Koivu has looked today and yesterday, is he still in the slump he was in before the break in Montreal or has he looked like his old self again?

Finland :banghead: Vs. :madfire: :madfire: :madfire: Gunther Hell

22-5 in shot so far...

22-5 in shot so far...
Keep us updated...

I can't get the live feed to work >_<

And can't find any live coverage.

Finland wont win until hell freezes over.

Gunther Hell!!

0-0 after 1st period.

0-0 after 1st period.
:banghead:

Finland wont win until hell freezes over.


buh-dum CRASH! :yo:

First period 0-0. Team Italy has fought well and played well defensively. Disappointing for Team Finland though. Two breakaways, multiple PP situations and no goals after first. Next period I'm expecting a totally different team Finland to emerge. More intelligent play, more movement and a good result.

Dangerous scoring chances 3-3 :shakehead
We wont se double digits for Finland today thats for sure.
Reminds me of the Denmark game last year at the WC's.

4 PP, around 25 shots and 0 goals!!! wow

Keep us updated...

I can't get the live feed to work >_<

And can't find any live coverage.


I'll do what i can...Currently working...thank god for captions on the TV :)

:banghead:
Don't worry yet, there are still 40 minutes to play. Btw I didn't expect to be an easy game for Finland.

But the italian goalie is playing well so far...

No surprise here: Finland can't score. :shakehead

buh-dum CRASH! :yo:

I thought the line you quoted was very good too. I wanted to add that it seems like Team Finlands ability to score goals has Gun-ther Hell, but that might be pushing it a bit. Hopefully Finland will figure this guy out in the 2nd 'cos from what i'm reading here, it seems like he is the only thing standing between Finland and the 2 points. Unless the goalie gets injured, then if Finland win they can say they went through Hell for the 2 points.

Ok, no more puns from me

Called my brother and he says that Jere looked splendid in the first... Maybe he'll be our first scorer in this game?

If Hell gets a shutout today, I'll counter with one of my own tomorrow...

(I've played 3 games as a goalie and have let in 3+7+15 =25 goals)

Teppo, do your magic! :)

No surprise here: Finland can't score. :shakehead

Are you expressing your fear? Any signs of panic yet? :D

I wonder if Hell can keep this up. However Italy needs to capitalize on their chances. The Finnish goaltender doesn't seem anything special.

Are you expressing your fear? Any signs of panic yet? :D

There's no need to worry. This has happend before with weaker opponents. Finland will score 2 goals next period and 2 or 3 in the last.

I am sweating icecubes.

There's no need to worry. This has happend before with weaker opponents. Finland will score 2 goals next period and 2 or 3 in the last.

Yeah thats probably true. I didn't realize the speed of Finland. They are a very fast team.

Yeah thats probably true. I didn't realize the speed of Finland. They are a very fast team.
Skating and two-way play is pretty much key for any finnish team.

Yeah baby!!!! 1-0

It was bound to go in.

Lehtinen :bow:

Called my brother and he says that Jere looked splendid in the first... Maybe he'll be our first scorer in this game?
Good guess. Lehtinen scored a PP goal. 1-0 team Finland. FINALLY!

1-0 Lehtinen

No problem :handclap:

edit: I'm so slow

and now a powerplay..

2-0. Another PP goal. Saku Koivu is the scorer.

2-0... Italy must stay out of the box

2-0 Teemu!

2-0 Teemu!
No, no... It was all Saku. Numminen added a second assist.

Teppo Winnipeg with two assists already :)

Peltonen totally schooled that Italian defenseman priot to the penalty that lead to our first goal. :bow:

No, no... It was all Saku. Numminen added a second assist.

How has Saku looked so far at the Olympics?

How has Saku looked so far at the Olympics?
Saku has looked ok so far. The usual Saku I've seen in the national team games.

How has Saku looked so far at the Olympics?

He's been ok, but he can play hell lot better. We need Saku to be the maestro on the ice when heading up the bigger teams.

Nice to see Numminen is continuing to try and get only assists and no goals on the season, even if it isnt NHL games

Teppo Winnipeg with two assists already :)
:biglaugh: Ha ha... Priceless...

Faceoffs 17-17 :shakehead

We're gonna be creamed on faceoffs by Canada/Czech/Russia/Sweden..

3-0

3-0

Who scored?

Who scored?

Nummelin shot from the blueline, and either Lehtinen or O Jokinen got a stick to it..

Nice to see Numminen is continuing to try and get only assists and no goals on the season, even if it isnt NHL games
Teppo has scored one goal in the tournament so far. He scored the second goal against Switzerland.

It was Petteri Nummelin, but I think the shot was deviated by J. Jokinen

30.11 Petteri Nummelin (power play)
(Sami Salo, Olli Jokinen)

*edit: text-tv now Says J.Jokinen (Nummelin, Salo)

30.11 Petteri Nummelin (power play)
(Sami Salo, Olli Jokinen)

Thanks. Looks like Finland is gonna roll to another easy victory.

Wow the Fins are dominating, is there anywhere i can watch this game?

Cheers Padawan and Jokeri, hopefully as the competitions rolls on, Saku will step his performances up a level with each game and by the time the Olympics are over he will return to Montreal in top form for the playoff stretch. If he happens to have an Olympic gold medal (and/or one of those places on the IOC competition commitee thing he is eligible for) then i certainly wouldn't mind.

Finns starting to look a bit tired. Italy sucks, a bunch of Canadian-born thugs who can't play a lick and somehow got Italian citizenship.

Wow the Fins are dominating, is there anywhere i can watch this game?I don't know if it works in Canada, try following link:

http://www.yle.fi/urheilu/mediasali/torino/torinostream4.html

Finns starting to look a bit tired. Italy sucks, a bunch of Canadian-born thugs who can't play a lick and somehow got Italian citizenship.


Or they have Italian Heritage in their blood :)

Norrena is valuable on the pp ;)

Peltonen (Nummelin, Norrena)

Peltonen with a beauty! 4-0

Finns starting to look a bit tired.
Italy is tired, so i dont think that Finns are at their 100%.
And Peltonen 4-0 with a wrister.

Peltonen! 4-0

Wow. What a beauty by team Finland. Nummelin with a delitful pass and Peltonen with a great shot just inside the upper corner pipe. Oh, right... This was a PP goal.

Edit: Finnish players are testing Norrena as well since the italians has done so poorly lately. :D

All thanks to Norrena who does a great job keeping the puck in play on the PP. Norrena not credited with an assist, someone got in between.

4-0 score by Ville Peltonen

I'm a little bit worried that the Finns only score in powerplay.

4-0 score by Ville Peltonen

I'm a little bit worried that the Finns only score in powerplay.

It's somethign we can go far on. In Nagano we had the best pp and that carried us to bronze..

4-0 score by Ville Peltonen

I'm a little bit worried that the Finns only score in powerplay.

Well, in this game it´s hard to score 5on5 because Finland is almost all the time on PP ;)

This looks really good, go Finland!

The second period is over and 4-0 lead for us. All the goals have been scored in the PP so at least the PP is working for us. Well done. Now the task left in the third is to score a couple even strenght goals as well. The team Finland added a little more movement and more intelligent play as I thought they would.

I am not worried that they haven't scored any 5 on 5 goals against Italy. The PP is working well and that should help with the better countries. Of course their PK is better too.

Aki-Petteri just shot our goal, of course he missed.

:bow: Peltonen
:bow: Nummelin
:bow: Numminen
:bow: Lehtinen
:bow: J.Jokinen
:bow: S.Koivu
:bow: Norrena

I have a feeling that Jere will score once more in the third. He looks smarter than ever in his movement out there.

I hope that Norrena lets in a soft goal or so that we get Niitty back for the harder games.

It's a pitty that I don't understand finnish language, otherwise I could follow the interviews with the finnish athlets on YLE. It's a good stream....

By the way something off topic, but does anyone know what happened with Hannu Manninen by the 15 kilometer cross country skiing? He was the whole season the best, but just in the Olympics it didn't work....

3-0 Was scored by Jussi Jokinen!

It's hard to follow the game at work when customers keep calling..why don't they watch the game too :D

1-0 Lehtinen (Numminen) PP
2-0 Koivu (Numminen) PP
3-0 J. Jokinen (Nummelin, Salo) PP
4-0 Peltonen (Nummelin) PP

4 power play goals :handclap:

Saves=

Norrena 6+5+?
Hell 23+14+?

Aki-Petteri just shot our goal, of course he missed.

:biglaugh:

I have a feeling that Jere will score once more in the third. He looks smarter than ever in his movement out there.

I hope that Norrena lets in a soft goal or so that we get Niitty back for the harder games.
Jere had two great scoring chances in the second but was unable to score. IMO, this period we saw a worse Jere than in the first. All in all, I'm a little disappointed with Jere's performance so far despite the goal he scored.

Of course we get Niittymäki for the next games even if Norrena gets a shutout. That should be certain without a question.

It's a pitty that I don't understand finnish language, otherwise I could follow the interviews with the finnish athlets on YLE. It's a good stream....

By the way something off topic, but does anyone know what happened with Hannu Manninen by the 15 kilometer cross country skiing? He was the whole season the best, but just in the Olympics it didn't work....

Manninen suck in Olympics, thats just the way he is.

Of course we get Niittymäki for the next games even if Norrena gets a shutout. That should be certain without a question.
Seems like a certain for the fans, but not for the coach >_<

3-0 Was scored by Jussi Jokinen!

It's hard to follow the game at work when customers keep calling..why don't they watch the game too :D

1-0 Lehtinen (Numminen) PP
2-0 Koivu (Numminen) PP
3-0 J. Jokinen (Nummelin, Salo) PP
4-0 Peltonen (Nummelin) PP

4 power play goals :handclap:

Saves=

Norrena 6+5+?
Hell 23+14+?Yes and there have been people moaning that Nummelin was taken in the roster......

On again!

Italy has gone out more to the corners... More around the boards. Out with Jakke, Nemo and Miki, please :D

Are Hell's pads Koho 690's? I have RBK premier which are the same ^^

Seems like a certain for the fans, but not for the coach >_<

It's certain. Westerlund already said that Niitty is the number one goalie. That's good cos in too many tournaments that haven't been the case.

This third line is quick with their sticks... And so incredibly smart.

Ruutu seems to been working even harder on his skating :O

2nd and first line are splendid... Except when it comes to finishing...

I love these lines.

The italians can't even receive passes... They wait too much and aren't that focused it seems... And soon we'll score again...

2nd and first line are splendid... Except when it comes to finishing...
They are toying with the italians. I think they should just score a goal rather than toying with them. A goal diffrential may be important later on. On the other hand, at least we are seing a good atmosphere in the team and a pure joy of playing the game.

Selänne and Numminen look 5 years younger...

The italians miss marking an open man going offensive in 9/10 situations O_o

Don't tell me these guys get paid for playing hockey...

two man pp...

is the game still 4-0?

is the game still 4-0?

Yes 4-0.

Who is that hottie in your avatar?

5-0 Selänne(Koivu, Salo)

Whew, I thought we weren't gonna score on that 2 man advantage. 5-0

Salo should start using his booming shot...

Niemi - Berg is a horrible duo...


One of them should always sit...

Why were they saying that Niinimaa is going to join the team? :eek:

don't touch my Berg!

What-A.goal, holy moly!

6-0 Selänne (Lehtinen)
It was Selänne to Lehtinen to Selänne, so ignore the commentators calling out Koivu's name for an assist...

the first no powerplay goal, again Selänne if I'm not wrong..

Selänne with a laser beam from narrow angle :bow:

Niemi - Berg is a horrible duo...


One of them should always sit...

Why were they saying that Niinimaa is going to join the team? :eek:

don't touch my Berg!
I hate Berg.

Niinimaa has joined Dallas not team Finland

Teemu !!! :handclap:. I´m thrilled seeing our first line doing well, especially Selänne´s scoring touch seems to be intact.

great goal from Selänne

What is Tony Granato thinking these days? Maybe he might admit that Selänne should be in the 3rd line instead of 4th... ;)

I hate Berg.

Niinimaa has joined Dallas not team Finland
ah. I am relieved...

Berg is twice the man Niini is on the national team. Since he makes 2½ huge mistakes in his worst games, while Jaana makes 5-6.

Ok, game finished the best players of team Finland in my opinion:

T. Selänne
S. Koivu
P. Nummelin
J. Lehtinen
V. Peltonen

in this order.

an Norrena did a good job, although he hasn't been so busy, but no easy goal...

For Italy I think there is no question:

the goalie Hell.

:yo:

1-0 Lehtinen (Numminen) PP
2-0 S.Koivu (Numminen) PP
3-0 J. Jokinen (Nummelin, Salo) PP
4-0 Peltonen (Nummelin) PP
5-0 Selänne (S.Koivu, Salo) PP
6-0 Selänne (Lehtinen)

5 power play goals

Saves=
Norrena 6+3+7=16
Hell 23+14+8=45

Penalties=
FIN: 2x2 min
ITA: 11x2 min

:handclap:

Cirone also almost looked like a hockey player at times.

Nice to hear that Norrena is a humble professional :)

And Hagman needs to grow his hair back...

Norrena with the shutout, nice. :yo:

Nice to hear that Norrena is a humble professional :)

And Hagman needs to grow his hair back...
Yep, and imo he didn't get too much help from his defensemen today. Italy could have had 2-3 goals easily if it weren't for Norrena.

I would have liked to see a couple more goals (especially from the 3:rd and 4:th line), but we got 2 points and that's all that matters.

The Czech don't look as good as i thought they would, down 2-1 against the Swiss.
Looking forward to the game on Saturday.

The Czech don't look as good as i thought they would, down 2-1 against the Swiss.
Looking forward to the game on Saturday.
The czech will want to redeem themself... So I am dreading for it.

The Czech don't look as good as i thought they would, down 2-1 against the Swiss. Looking forward to the game on Saturday.
The difference is Aebischer.

The difference is Aebischer.
Yes thats funny. The goalie situation in Switzerland is similar to Finns in many ways.

Finland is running the scores up. This is not good for hockey. They should withdraw ice hockey from the Olympics. It's simply not fair.

How has Mikko Koivu looked? Does he even get to play?

How has Mikko Koivu looked? Does he even get to play?

He plays in the 4th line, has not looked bad. That line is basically meant for games against better opponents...for a shutout role. Ruutu and Nieminen, the superpests are his wingers.

How has Mikko Koivu looked? Does he even get to play?
Not much icetime today... But he is a splendid 4th line centre... Hustles hard and doesn't shy away from anything.