From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Subject: IZVESTIJA: Sweden-Finland
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:40:01 GMT


 IZVESTIJA TOURNAMENT RESULTS
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 Group B, played in St Petersburg, Russia:

 Wednesday, December 16:

 SWEDEN - FINLAND 3-2 (0-1,2-0,1-1)

 1st - FIN 0-1 Jarmo Kekalainen (Mika Alatalo) - 10:02
 2nd - SWE 1-1 Fredrik Nilsson (Patrik Erickson) - 11:47
       SWE 2-1 Peter Larsson (Patrik Erickson) - 14:48
 3rd - SWE 3-1 Patrik Juhlin - 4:30
       FIN 3-2 Mika Alatalo (Jarmo Kekalainen,Mikko Haapakoski) - 18:44

 Penalties: Sweden 5*2min, Finland 4*2min
 Referee: Viktor Gubernatorov, Russia
 Attendance: 5,000

 Finland scored the first goal of the game as Jarmo Kekalainen got the puck
 in his own zone, advanced through the neutral zone and could unattacked
 fire a shot way inside the Swedish zone that beat goalie Peter Aslin.

 In the second period the Finns took command and put pressure on Sweden.
 Jari Korpisalo had a shot in the crossbar but Aslin managed to save the
 rebound. The Finnish pressure allowed the Swedes to come on a 3on2 break
 away. Patrik Erickson passed the puck to Fredrik Nilsson in the neutral
 zone, Fredrik skated around the Finnish defenseman on the outside. The
 Finnish goalie expected a pass from Nilsson, so Fredrik found a hole high
 on Lindfors' glove side, 1-1. The Swedes played better and better. Stefan
 Larsson got the puck at the blue, completely unattacked, advanced towards
 the goal, shot a slap shot that hit team mate Patrik Erickson, who attempted
 to screen the Finnish goalie, but luckily Peter Larsson picked up the rebound
 and backhanded the puck, 2-1.

 Third period. Patrik Juhlin showed excellent skating skills, skated from
 his own zone, into Finnish zone, put on a body fake, rounded Finnish defense-
 man, wrist shot, save by Lindfors, rebound by Elvenes, another save by 
 Lindfors, second rebound Juhlin, goal! 3-1. The Swedes seemed to have a 
 comfortable lead at this point and the Finns failed to put on high pressure.
 But in the end of the game, the Finns made a change of pace. Mika Alatalo
 rounded Swedish defenseman and backhanded the puck who was saved by Aslin
 but bounced up in the air and over Aslin, 3-2. The Finns pulled the goalie
 in an attempt to equalize and came pretty close. A shot appeared (*) to have
 hit the Swedish post in the final minute but the Swedes could hang on to
 the lead.

 (*) The TV broadcast didn't have any replays at all. The constant strange 
 TV angles also made the game hard to watch.

 This was the third time in four days that Team Finland and Team Sweden
 played against each other. This time the Swedes managed to win and
 therefore made the record 1-1-1. The Finns didn't play the same aggressive
 attacking game they did in the two previous games, and this was to Sweden's
 advantage.

 Some notes:

 - The ice was in a very poor condition so the pucks bounced all the time.
   
 - The rink didn't have plexiglass behind the goals like usual, but instead
   it had some kind of net! 

 - Two drunken Finnish supporters attacked Swedish goalie Aslin after the game.
   Aslin fell to the ground and he was kicked a few times. Aslin didn't get 
   hurt though so this won't affect his upcoming games in the Izvestija
   tournament.

 Sweden played like this:

 Goalie    35. Peter Aslin
 Defense:   8. Kenneth Kennholt - 14. Fredrik Stillman
	    7. Arto Blomsten    - 28. Christer Olsson
	    3. Peter Popovic    - 32. Stefan Larsson

 Offense:  25. Patrik Erickson  - 33. Fredrik Nilsson - 31. Peter Larsson
	   23. Lars Edstrom     - 15. Stefan Ornskog  -  6. Anders Huusko
	   26. Jan Viktorsson   -  4. Stefan Nilsson  - 29. Mikael Renberg
      	   34. Stefan Elvenes   - 20. Jan Larsson     -  5. Patrik Juhlin


 RUSSIA II - GERMANY 8-1 (2-0,4-1,2-0)

 Russia II (the Russian Olympic team, led by Viktor Tikhonov) outscored
 a very young German team. Only one player in the German team played
 in the '92 WC.

 Russia II: Sergei Gomoliako 2, Andrei Kudinov 2, Ravil Gusmanov, 
            Dmitri Denisov, Sergei Jelakov, Oleg Komissarov
 Germany: Ernst Kopf

 Penalties: Russia II 3*2min, Germany 5*2min
 Attendance: 3,000

 Standings:

 1. Russia II	1  1 0 0  8-1  2
 2. Sweden	1  1 0 0  3-2  2
 3. Finland	1  0 0 1  2-3  0
 4. Germany	1  0 0 1  1-8  0

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 Group A, played in Moscow:

 December 15:	

 Canada - Czechoslovakia 4-4 (0-1,3-2,1-1)

 Russia I - Switzerland 4-1 (2-0,0-0,2-1)

 Standings:

 1. Russia I	1  1 0 0  4-1  2
 2. Canada 	1  0 1 0  4-4  1
 3. Czechoslov.	1  0 1 0  4-4  1
 4. Switzerland 1  0 0 1  1-4  0

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