Iltalehti compiles the three most interesting points from each race day. Here are the points for Sunday.
A crisis of interest?
Lassi Kuisma
In sports, it is customary to say that a team or club has the most worrying situation of all, if no one is interested in how it performs. Based on this, the situation of the Swedish national ice hockey team Tre Kronor is very bad, because among the country’s major media, at least the tabloid Expressen shines with its absence in Tampere, where Sweden plays its first group. According to Swedish journalists, other major media will also travel there only later. A similar situation for the Lions and Suomi-media is unimaginable. Football is booming in Sweden.
Sweden has won its first two games in the World Cup. EPA/AOP
Finally a home win against Sweden?
Vesa Parviainen
The classic match of the World Cup between Finland and Sweden will show whether the Lions can finally beat Tre Kronor in their home games. The World Cup has been played in Finland in nine springs since 1965, and the countries have met eight times in all. The results for Finland first are 2–2, 3–3, 2–6, 3–3, 4–4, 2–5, 5–6 and 2–3. The last World Cup derby in Pohjola was decided a year ago in Tampere in a hard-fought race in favor of the western neighbor.
AHL stick in action
Harri Hepojärvi
168-centimeter Rocco Grimaldi, the shortest player in the WC bowls, has had a flying start to the Games. The AHL club is tied for third place in the points market after two rounds with four (1+3) power points. Grimaldi cools in the US number one chain together Nick Bonino and Alex Tuchin with. The 30-year-old winger played 70 games in the AHL regular season this season and scored 73 (33+40) points. Pikkuväkära also has NHL experience from 203 games.
Rocco Grimaldi has been in tune. Petri Saarelainen / AOP