The miracle did not happen. Russia lost Finland YUCHM – SPORT – EXPRESS

World Championship U-18. 1/4 finals

Junior team Russia lost in the quarterfinals of the world championship team Finland with a score of 3: 4 and flew out of the tournament

FINLAND – RUSSIA – 4: 3 (1: 0, 3: 2, 0: 1)

Goals: Tolvanen – 1 (Vesalaynen, Yokiharyu), 16:19 – 1: 0. Pulyuyarvi – 1 (ball, Heiskanen.) 26:31 – 2: 0. Marusha – 1 (Lobanov, Kuznetsov), 30:07 – 2: 1. Tolvanen – 2 (Vaakanaynen) 30:48 – 3: 1. Samorukov – 1 (Y. Alexeyev), 31:05 – 3: 2. Tolvanen – 3 (bol, Pulyuyarvi, Räsänen.) 39:39 – 4: 2. Ya Alekseev – 1 (ball, Bitsadze, Kostin.) 52:31 – 4:. 3

Goalkeepers: Luukkonen – Tarasov (58:56)

The penalty:.. 8 – 10

Throws:. 32 (9 + 10 + 13) – 26 (9 + 8 + 9)

Judge: Balushka Linde

April 21.. Grand Forks. . Ralph Engelstad Arena

You can now say with absolute certainty: Golubovicha team traveled to Grand Forks are not in vain. Yes, beaten could not be with the Americans and the Swedes in the group, but his decisive match of the Russian juniors spent so that made everyone forget about the annual difference between the Finnish opponents.

In this national team Suomi not too successful were the relations and our core team as offensive way to miss the tournament – if the same Americans “prohorovtsy” never lost in the last two seasons, the Finns their status uncomfortable for the opponent Russians repeatedly confirmed

However, an easy walk to the favorite failed. At approximately equal game for all three periods (with a slight advantage the Finns in some stretches) wards Golubovic had quite a real chance of success. They do not fall apart after the third missed washers, as it was in the match against the United States, or at the beginning of the second period, as the meeting with the Swedes – in contrast, for each productive strike by Finnish followed a rapid response, reduce the deficit .

Unfortunately, not so well played goalkeeper Daniil Tarasov – throws the main star of the Finnish national team Jesse Pulyuyarvi , and the hero of the match Yeli Tolvanen , a hat-trick, it turned out to be are beyond. Particularly unpleasant got the puck MVP Youth World Championship, who came to Grand Forks directly with the playoffs adult Finnish league. Pulyuyarvi was not as good (of course, given the expectations of a hockey player, breaks all the tournament for 20-year-old players a few months ago), but my washer still scored, literally on one skate to break into our zone and scored Tarasova.

that’s great – so that’s what behind in the score in the third period, the Russians found themselves in the strength of that in the next, the third time to return to the game. Physically, the team Golubovic was ready for the tournament, despite minimal preparation time. However, in the end the advantage in the general classroom after all affected – the smell of a potential tie, the Finns were able to move the game from their gates, and no longer allowed to threaten their gates

The Russians are leaving the American continent. with head held high: in contrast to their predecessors a year ago, they gave it to the maximum and left the Grand Forks ice all his remaining strength. And most importantly, that the destiny gave them a chance to try again – in a year, this team is almost at full strength again arrive at the Junior World Championships

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