With the Norwegian victory, the Lions continued the ferocious tube that began in Beijing in February, writes Lassi Kuisma of the Nokia Arena.
The lions offered the home crowd a handsome victory. Jussi Saarinen
In their opening game, the Lions did even more than many experts expected.
In the light of the pressures of home competitions and the lessons of recent tournaments, many would not have condemned Jukka Jalonen’s Lion, even if the victory from Norway had been slimmer than seen. However, the second installment in particular was strong from Finland.
The opening round was still to be applied for from Finland and Norway could have taken the lead in the match, but in the second round the Lions took the driver’s place. The big trough and better players meant that Norway had to run for a long time in its own territory after Finland or just block its own goal.
As U.S. star player Seth Jones summed up after the afternoon game, it’s big in the big bowl when the puck is on its own and not so nice when the opponent is on the puck.
Even if you are in the attacking zone, there is no need to push away towards the goal. After Finland’s long reigns, the attacks on Norway were sluggish and Finland punished mercilessly for mistakes.
The lions also continued their wonderful tube in the match, which tells how strong the opponent must be that Finland will crash.
The lion has scored the last goal in the qualifying match in the opening match of the tie Olympics against Slovakia. After that, all the goals scored for Finland in the value matches have been scored when Finland has played undercutting. There have now been six of these matches.
If the encouragement of the Nokia arena audience sometimes gets the Lions players too excited about the attack, head coach Jalonen will certainly remind his players how important this asset has been.
While Nashville Predators NHL star Mikael Granlund was sitting in the backyard of the Nokia arena watching the game, the Lions ’second offensive NHL star Joel Armia beat 1 + 1.
The Army has a difficult season behind them in the Montréal Canadiens, where he scored 14 power points in 60 matches.
The Pori-based striker struck through the SM League just over 10 years ago as a skilled top pen man, but has since become known in the NHL as a workhorse for lower chains.
As late as Thursday, Armia was allowed to answer IL’s question about whether he misses being able to ink the discs from the starting point arc with force. The Army said humbly that maybe that time would come too.
What happened in the Norwegian 4-4 goal? It didn’t take long.