RG GDT 1/4 • Finland 3, Germany 1

Systemfel
01-04-2009, 11:54 AM
2009 WJC RELEGATION GAME
JANUARY 4, 2008 - 2:30 PM ET
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/logos/finland.gif vs. http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/logos/germany.gif
Civic Centre, Ottawa, ON

Live Box Score (http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/172/live/2297.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

Germany (http://www.eliteprospects.com/team.php?team=1668&metric=no)
9 Jerome Flaake - 24 Daniel Weiss - 19 Patrick Pohl
14 Alexander Oblinger - 5 Simon Fischhaber - 11 David Wolf
22 Toni Ritter - 25 Steven Rupprich - 6 Andre Huebscher
28 Conor Morrison
17 Florian Strobl
23 Gerrit Fauser
26 Maximilian Forster

29 Dominik Bielke - 10 Denis Reul
7 Sinan Akdag - 13 Marco Nowak
20 Benedikt Brückner - 4 Tim Schüle
12 Armin Wurm
27 Florian Müller

1 Timo Pielmeier
30 Philipp Grubauer

Officials
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/1.gif Christer Lärking
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/1.gif Patrik Sjöberg
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/6.gif David Brown
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/1.gif Leo Takula

Scoring
1-0. Kivistö (Rask) 12:40, 1st
2-0. Hartikainen (Sallinen) 13:02, 1st
2-1. Flaake (unassisted) 9:39, 2nd
3-1. Niemi (Lucenius, Hartikainen) 1:31, 3rd, PPG

Players of the Game
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/2.gif N/A
http://www.eliteprospects.com/layout/flags/21.gif N/A

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 11:57 AM
5-2 Finland

Jungosi
01-04-2009, 11:59 AM
5-2 Finland

More. I think this is going to be a blowout.

wildone26*
01-04-2009, 12:23 PM
Germany is going back to the B side IMO. Finland 4-1.

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 12:25 PM
it would be fun to see Finland sent down considering they will have a much stronger team for years to come.

Inkling
01-04-2009, 12:45 PM
it would be fun to see Finland sent down considering they will have a much stronger team for years to come.

I think with the victory yesterday Finland is guaranteed to stay up, no?

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 12:55 PM
I think with the victory yesterday Finland is guaranteed to stay up, no?


yeah it did.

FINNtastic
01-04-2009, 01:09 PM
yeah it did.

Nope, it's not 100 percent sure yet. If Germany wins Finland by a big margin and Latvia wins Kazakstan, then it's up to mathematics...

Link (in finnish): http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/jaakiekko/uutiset.shtml/arkistot/jaakiekko/2009/01/773268

FINNtastic
01-04-2009, 01:12 PM
This game is being broadcasted on Rogers TV.. so I wonder if it's possible to view this on the Internet? A link to a stream would be awesome!

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 01:17 PM
Nope, it's not 100 percent sure yet. If Germany wins Finland by a big margin and Latvia wins Kazakstan, then it's up to mathematics...

Link (in finnish): http://www.mtv3.fi/urheilu/jaakiekko/uutiset.shtml/arkistot/jaakiekko/2009/01/773268

:handclap: i was wrong.

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 01:40 PM
any1 have a live feed for this game outside of finland.

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 03:01 PM
1- 0 Finland - Kivisto

http://www.yle.fi/tekstitv/html/P627_01.html
just keep hitting refresh if you care. can't find a feed.

IslesDynasty
01-04-2009, 03:04 PM
Here's the correct link to IIHF Live box score
http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/172/live/2297.html

2-0 Finland right now

Selanne08*
01-04-2009, 03:05 PM
Here's the correct link to IIHF Live box score
http://stats.iihf.com/Hydra/172/live/2297.html

2-0 Finland right now

oh nice. thanks.

Yst
01-04-2009, 03:52 PM
And Germany adds a goal to bring it within one.

STHLM*
01-04-2009, 04:10 PM
A German Match penalty? What David Wolf do?

zecke26
01-04-2009, 04:16 PM
A German Match penalty? What David Wolf do?

he was trailing by 3 PIM and now took the lead as most penalized player. maybe there's some prize money. :sarcasm:

Slimmy
01-04-2009, 04:31 PM
he was trailing by 3 PIM and now took the lead as most penalized player. maybe there's some prize money. :sarcasm:

:laugh: Lets hope not:)

Cosmo
01-04-2009, 04:52 PM
The games over...3:1 for Finland :(

FINNtastic
01-04-2009, 05:41 PM
So let's put it here also.

Hartikainen 1+1
Niemi 1+0
Kivistö 1+0
Sallinen 0+1
Rask 0+1
Lucenius 0+1

Flaake 1+0

T_Cage
01-04-2009, 05:44 PM
Sucks for Germany...they had so much potential :( (Looked Great in the 9-0 Kaz spanking...solid against Canada). Then they just collapsed...

the dutch guy
01-04-2009, 07:35 PM
Hartikainen has played well in the past couple games. how old is he? would he still be eligible for next years tournament

Systemfel
01-04-2009, 07:48 PM
Hartikainen has played well in the past couple games. how old is he? would he still be eligible for next years tournamentHe's a '90 so he should be back.

wildone26*
01-04-2009, 08:31 PM
Sucks for Germany...they had so much potential :( (Looked Great in the 9-0 Kaz spanking...solid against Canada). Then they just collapsed...

I was never that impressed with them. Everyone whooped Kaz., against Canada they made it surprisingly competitive with hard work and great goaltending but their complete lack of skills was evident whenever they had the puck. Their PP was the most pitiful I have ever seen even at junior level, they couldnt even put simply passes on the other players sticks. Sorry if I sound negative, that is just my feeling. I still thought they would stay up over Latvia though, very surprised Latvia crushed them without it being even close.

Bleifooss
01-04-2009, 09:20 PM
I was never that impressed with them. Everyone whooped Kaz., against Canada they made it surprisingly competitive with hard work and great goaltending but their complete lack of skills was evident whenever they had the puck. Their PP was the most pitiful I have ever seen even at junior level, they couldnt even put simply passes on the other players sticks. Sorry if I sound negative, that is just my feeling. I still thought they would stay up over Latvia though, very surprised Latvia crushed them without it being even close.

I have to agree with you.... very disappointing outcome, they weren't even trying. Nothing wrong about sounding negative, that was a very poor showing of a mediocre team.

Joe Potato
01-04-2009, 11:20 PM
I was at the game and overall it was a disappointment. I thought both teams would be stronger than they were. But overall the Finns were definantly stronger and the Germans are rightly being relegated, as I saw the Latvia game too and that team was stronger tonight than the Germans too.

As for David Wolf he got in a pushing match with one of the Finns at the end of the second period and head butted him. Apparently you cant do that in hockey...:sarcasm:

v-man
01-04-2009, 11:27 PM
I only saw about 30 mins of the middle of the game, but it seemed pretty obvious that Finland was on cruise control and hardly felt the need to put in an entertaining effort, while Germany seemed to have accepted their fate already, and hardy put up a fight. Probably the least entertaining game of the tournament.

Inkling
01-05-2009, 02:07 AM
Here are some highlights. Congrats to Finland!

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Dfire
01-05-2009, 10:57 AM
I was at the game and overall it was a disappointment. I thought both teams would be stronger than they were. But overall the Finns were definantly stronger and the Germans are rightly being relegated, as I saw the Latvia game too and that team was stronger tonight than the Germans too.

As for David Wolf he got in a pushing match with one of the Finns at the end of the second period and head butted him. Apparently you cant do that in hockey...:sarcasm:

So you watched Latvia beating Kazakhstan 7:1 and Germany losing to Finland 3:1 and you are basing your opinion about Germany "rightly" being relegated on those two games? Germany actually beat Kazakhstan 9:0.

The game against Finland didn't really show why Germany got relegated (except for the fact that they took too many stupid penalties again). The ones against Latvia and the Czech Republic did though.
I still can't believe that last year Germany beat the slovaks 3 out of 4 times with almost the same players on their rosters and yet the Slovaks did so well at this tournament and the germans underachieved so much

dmacgreg37
01-05-2009, 11:24 AM
So you watched Latvia beating Kazakhstan 7:1 and Germany losing to Finland 3:1 and you are basing your opinion about Germany "rightly" being relegated on those two games? Germany actually beat Kazakhstan 9:0.

The game against Finland didn't really show why Germany got relegated (except for the fact that they took too many stupid penalties again). The ones against Latvia and the Czech Republic did though.
I still can't believe that last year Germany beat the slovaks 3 out of 4 times with almost the same players on their rosters and yet the Slovaks did so well at this tournament and the germans underachieved so much

It's hard to say that they are not "rightly" being relegated when they didn't beat anyone who isn't also being relegated. It seems the rightful two teams are going down.

Dfire
01-05-2009, 12:55 PM
It's hard to say that they are not "rightly" being relegated when they didn't beat anyone who isn't also being relegated. It seems the rightful two teams are going down.

I didn't say they don't deserve to go down. I said you can't come to that conclusion based on the two games mentioned.

Apart from the stupid penalties imo they played ok against Finland - especially considering the fact that it was 3 lines against 4 lines.