Finland is allowed to rest before meeting the big countries, but Sweden’s young NHL star made confident comments.
The lions want to get under the skin of Sweden on Wednesday.
When the teams last met in the championships, they lived in February. At the Beijing Olympics, Sweden escaped to lead 3-0 in the first-half match as the lions ’nerves burned and the team took on the ice. However, Finland won.
The previous value match was in 2019 in Slovakia. Sweden led 3-1 first and 4-3 again in the semi-finals. Even then, Finland pushed past.
However, Sweden cannot always be trusted to melt.
– It’s important to go straight to the driver’s seat. The Swedes are how I would say it now … If they get into flow mode, they have a lot of attack power, Lions Jere Sallinen anticipates.
– We have to be awake so we don’t give them that flow space. Let’s be a little annoying and go under the skin. Let’s play hard, fight and trust that our system works.
Jere Sallinen was allowed to focus on recovery on Tuesday. Jussi Saarinen
The puck is interesting
As seen in the USA match, the opponent of the Lions may be frustrated in front of the Finnish audience in the Nokia arena if the game does not go according to the opponent’s whistle.
That is what Finland is trying to do against Sweden.
– We get under the skin with our own playful style. They are not allowed to be with the puck, but remain on the puck itself. The Swedes don’t like to defend. They want to attack.
Western neighbor Joakim Nordström the speeches on Swedish game philosophy were in line with Sallinen’s speeches.
– We have a skilled group. We want to play on the puck. The Swedish mentality is that we work hard, we definitely play in defense and we are creative with the puck. We want to be a team that is hard to play against. We want to take the reins, play the puck and attack, Nordström told IL.
Rasmus Dahlin of Sweden and Lewis Hook of the UK struggled on Tuesday.
Rested Finland
The host program of Finland is very favorable. The Lions have a break before the US, Swedish and Czech matches.
The USA played against Austria the day before the Lions match. Sweden played against Britain on Tuesday. The last two days of the Czech group stage are the toughest, as the team will face the United States and the Lions on consecutive days.
Sweden is already packing the game against the UK in the first set, but the team is only playing on three full pitches.
– We like to play a lot. They (Finland) can rest as much as they want, Tre Kronor’s 22-year-old NHL defender Rasmus Dahlin said.
Played in the Columbus Blue Jackets Emil Bemström assured that Sweden will still be able to continue with three chains.
Of course, Sweden respects the Lions.
– It’s a match we’ve been waiting for. There will be a great atmosphere in this Arena. Finland has a skilled group and they defend well. We need a really good game, but we also have a good team, Dahlin said.