RG GDT 1/3 • Finland 7, Kazakhstan 1

2009 WJC RELEGATION GAME
JANUARY 3, 2008 - 6:30 PM ET
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/logos/finland.gif vs. http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/logos/kazak.gif
Civic Centre, Ottawa, ON

Live Box Score (http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/172/live/2295.html)

Finland (http://www.eliteprospects.com/team.php?team=1608&metric=no)
35 Teemu Hartikainen - 20 Tomi Sallinen (C) - 26 Joonas Rask (A)
11 Toni Rajala - 29 Joonas Nättinen - 12 Mikael Granlund
14 Nestori Lähde - 10 Niclas Lucenius - 19 Antti Poppo
21 Sami Lähteenmäki - 27 Jani Lajunen - 9 Eetu Pöysti
22 Jan Helenius
15 Ilmari Pitkänen

8 Jyri Niemi (A) - 13 Jesse Jyrkkiö
7 Joonas Järvinen - 5 Ilari Melart
25 Veli-Matti Vittasmäki - 3 Tommi Kivistö
2 Ari Gröndahl
24 Kristian Näkyvä

1 Juha Metsola
30 Harri Säteri

Kazakhstan (http://www.eliteprospects.com/team.php?team=1851&metric=no)
18 Eduard Mazula - 26 Konstantin Savenkov - 13 Alexander Kaznacheev
3 Igor Denisenko - 10 Nikita Ivanov - 21 Yakov Vorobiev
9 Alexander Nurek - 17 Vyacheslav Fedosenko - 11 Mikhail Lazorenko
27 Oleg Onischenko

5 Andrei Korovkin - 14 Evgeni Bolyakin
4 Dmitri Tikhonov - 7 Nikolai Safonov
22 Leonid Metalnikov - 8 Vitaly Svistunov
12 Viktor Ivashin - 6 Igor Netesov

20 Andrei Yankov
1 Maxim Gryaznov

Officials
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/10.gif Sergei Kulakov
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/3.gif Richard Ritchie
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/6.gif David Brown
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/9.gif Andrei Mikhel

Scoring
1-0. Niemi (Hartikainen) 0:22, 1st
2-0. Rask (Hartikainen) 6:29, 1st
3-0. Sallinen (Hartikainen, Rask) 16:32, 1st
3-1. Savenkov (Kaznacheev) 1:03, 2nd
4-1. Roppo (Sallinen, Nättinen) 7:26, 2nd, SHG
5-1. Hartikainen (Sallinen, Nättinen) 19:09, 2nd, PPG
6-1. Rajala (Granlund, Melart) 4:33, 3rd, 5v3 PPG
7-1. Hartikainen (Rask, Jyrkkiö) 14:13, 3rd, PPG

Players of the Game
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/2.gif Tomi Sallinen
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/36.gif Andrei Korovkin

Now Finland will destroy Kazakhstan to prove that pool B was far better than pool A.
Total Pool B dominance!:handclap:

Finland vs. Kazakhstan - vBookie (http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=590413)

Can Finland win by 9 goals against this Kazakhstan team?

Can Finland win by 9 goals against this Kazakhstan team?

Nope. Only one good scoring line (The Barely Legal-line). They win by 4 to 6 goals... That's my prediction.

Lets hope Finns can find the net this time and play more serious than last time, in post game they lost to Kazakstan 2-1 with, was it like 50 shots on goal.

And its better to be like 6-0 because Latvia won Germany 7-1..

Can Finland win by 9 goals against this Kazakhstan team?

They should be able to do that. Hell, even Germany won them by 9 goals. But, I predict we struggle to score eventually winning 3-1 (shots 52-9). It's a humiliation even to play in the relegation games and I have a bad feeling this game will just add to that humiliation.

Is there any way to watch this live btw? I think even finnish tv is showing Canada-Russia.

I just bought tickets to the game and will be there live. Looking forward to seeing Rajala and Granlund play in person.

Tickets were only $7.50 each, so I can't pass up the opportunity to see the game, although missing the Canada/Russia game is going to suck.

if Finland loses this game they deserve to be relegated

I really hope the Finns will win this game, otherwise it would be really a big disappointment and the danger to be relegated in Pool B would become real.

Kazakhstan lost against Germany 9-0, against Canada 15-0, against USA 12-0, against the Czechs 10-2, so if Finland is not able to beat them, they rellay have nothing lost in Pool A. But I think the Finns can't be so weak in scoring.

that wwhat i wonder...if finland will let down b/c its an 'embarassing' relegation game, a la Germany yesterday :@ (dang Latvia)

No stream?

No stream?

Of course not, relegation games aren't aired.

The Barely Legal-line is still together and Rask gets his chance with Sallinen and Hartikainen.


8 D NIEMI Jyri
13 D JYRKKIO Jesse
26 F RASK Joonas
20 F SALLINEN Tomi
35 F HARTIKAINEN Teemu

5 D MELART Ilari
7 D JARVINEN Joonas
12 F GRANLUND Mikael
29 F NATTINEN Joonas
11 F RAJALA Toni

25 D VITTASMAKI Veli-Matti
3 D KIVISTO Tommi
19 F ROPPO Antti
10 F LUCENIUS Niclas
14 F LAHDE Nestori

22 F HELENIUS Jani
2 D GRONDAHL Ari
9 F POYSTI Eetu
27 F LAJUNEN Jani
21 F LAHTEENMAKI Sami

And here's the Kazaks...

5 D KOROVKIN Andrei
14 D BOLYAKIN Yevgeni
18 F MAZULA Eduard
26 F SAVENKOV Konstantin
13 F KAZNACHEYEV Alexander

4 D TIKHONOV Dmitri
7 D SAFONOV Nikolai
3 F DENISSENKO Igor
10 F IVANOV Nikita
21 F VOROBYOV Yakov

22 D METALNIKOV Leonid
8 D SVISTUNOV Vitali
9 F NUREK Alexander
17 F FEDOSSENKO Vyacheslav
11 F LAZORENKO Mikhail

6 D NETESSOV Igor
12 D IVASHIN Viktor
27 F ONICHSHENKO Oleg

can someone throw up a link if they find one please.

1-0 Niemi (Hartikainen)

It took 22 seconds for the first goal :laugh:
I do hope we win this one.

1-0 Niemi (Hartikainen)

Great to hear. Looking forward to see Niemi in an Islanders jersey a couple of years from now.

Good good :) Keep us updated! Thanks

2-0 Rask (Hartikainen)

3-0 Sallinen (Hartikainen, Rask)

3-0 Sallinen (Hartikainen again).

Well that line found some chemistry. Better late than never.

@21.03
3-1 Kazakhstan
26. SAVENKOV, Konstantin (13. KAZNACHEYEV, Alexander)

@27.26
4 - 1 SH Finland
19. ROPPO, Antti
(20. SALLINEN, Tomi)
(7. JARVINEN, Joonas)


Shots are now 22-4 in favor of Finland.

@39.09
5 - 1 PP Finland
35. HARTIKAINEN, Teemu
(20. SALLINEN, Tomi)
(29. NATTINEN, Joonas)

39.09
5-1 Hartikainen (Sallinen, Nättinen) PP

Hartikainen finally got a goal :)

Second period ended.

Hartikainen finally got a goal :)

Yeah that would've been useful already before... but oh well, what can you do, better now than never.

44.33 6 - 1 Rajala (Granlund, Melart) PP

Hartikainen with another goal. 5th point of the game.

Tournament MVP? :sarcasm:

Game ended 7-1.

Hartikainen 2+3
Sallinen 1+2
Rask 1+2
Rajala 1+0
Roppo 1+0
Niemi 1+0
Granlund 0+1
Nättinen 0+1
Jyrkkiö 0+1
Melart 0+1
Järvinen 0+1

Saves:
FIN Metsola 20/21
KAZ: Yankov 43/50

At least we didn't embarrass ourselves.

I just bought tickets to the game and will be there live. Looking forward to seeing Rajala and Granlund play in person.

Tickets were only $7.50 each, so I can't pass up the opportunity to see the game, although missing the Canada/Russia game is going to suck.

Can you tell us what you saw? Who impressed you and who didn't?

Here are some highlights of the match:

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Of course not, relegation games aren't aired.

So I guess you were wrong Jussi. How about that?;) Now that you have lied to us you owe us a feed to the Germany game broadcasted on Rogers TV. Can you do that Jussi?

Tournament MVP? :sarcasm:He didn't even get POTG. Strange.

So I guess you were wrong Jussi. How about that?;) Now that you have lied to us you owe us a feed to the Germany game broadcasted on Rogers TV. Can you do that Jussi?

I meant "...in Finland." ;)