From: etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson)
Subject: Re: TEAM FINLAND - TEAM SWEDEN, December 13, 1992
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:02:34 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.001454.2041@tac.fi> tiok_jk@tac.fi (Juha Koivisto) writes:
>Sunday, December 13, 1992, Tampere, Finland:
>
>FINNISH NATIONAL TEAM - SWEDISH NATIONAL TEAM
>                    5 - 1   (0-1, 4-0, 1-0)
>1. period:
> 12.53  2 min  Sami Wahlsten FIN
> 14.30  2 min  Anders Huusko SWE 
> 19.54   0-1   Patrik Juhlin (Stefan Ornskog) 
>2. period:
> 20.18   1-1   Jukka Seppo (Jarkko Varvio - Timo Jutila) 
> 23.17  2 min  Mika Alatalo FIN 
> 27.00   2-1   Varvio (Seppo) 
> 29.13   3-1   Rauli Raitanen (Petri Varis) 
> 37.06   4-1   Juha Riihijarvi (Seppo) 
>3. period:
> 42.55  2 min  Sami Nuutinen FIN 
> 53.33   5-1   Varis (Raitanen) 
> 58.38  2 min  Tomas Jonsson SWE 
>
>Penalties: Finland 3 x 2 min, Sweden 2 x 2 min
>Saves:     Sakari Lindfors FIN 8+11+12=31
>           Rolf Riddervall SWE 4+9+5=18
>Referees:  Mihael Galinovski, Russia (Jyrki Ikavalko - Juha Lindholm)
>Attendance: 5 102
>
>The teams will play again tomorrow (Dec 14) in Helsinki, Finland.
>
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 Some additions to Juha's excellent report.

 The Swedes played a pretty good 1st period. But it was only six seconds left
 of the period when Patrik Juhlin scored the 0-1 goal. Stefan Ornskog took
 the puck and skated around the goal. As he came out in front of the goal,
 the Finnish goalie Sakari Lindfors smashed his stick against Ornskog and
 Ornskog could pass the puck along to Juhlin who just put the puck past
 a stickless Lindfors.
 In the 2nd period, we saw a new fresh Finnish team. And they got an excellent
 start with a scoring after only 18 seconds. Jarkko Varvio, one of the game's
 best players IMO, skated around Tomas Jonsson on the outside, and passed
 the puck along to Jukka Seppo who just backhanded the puck past Ridderwall
 in the Swedish goal. At 7:00, the very good line of Varvio-Seppo-Riihijarvi
 struck again. Seppo won the face-off and backhanded the puck back to Varvio
 who made a nice wrist shot, 2-1. The Finnish dominance continued, and the
 confusion in the Swedish defense resulted in a failed attempt to clear the
 zone, Petri Varis with a nice pass to Rauli Raitanen, and Raitanen waited
 for Ridderwall to make the first move and then put the puck over Riddarn, 3-1.
 After that, the Swedes had a good period but failed to score due to good play
 by Finnish goalie Sakari Lindfors. Tomas Jonsson and Stefan Ornskog each had
 shots that hit the post but as they say.. a good goalie is usually also lucky.
 At 17:06, the Finns increased there lead to 4-1. The Swedish defenders failed
 to work the puck along the boards and Juha Riihijarvi picked up the puck
 behind the Swedish goal, skated around and put the puck by Ridderwall's
 near post.
 In the 3rd period, the Finns played wise hockey, primary interested in
 the defense. The Swedes played better than the 2nd period but still it
 was pretty lame. Petri Varis could score the final goal of the game after
 Roger Akerstrom failed to clear the puck close to the goal crease.

 Team Sweden played an overall poor game, recording one of their biggest
 losses to Finland in history. Ridderwall didn't have a good game, maybe due
 to AIK's problems this fall. The only line in Team Sweden that deserves
 some praise is the line with Stefan Ornskog-Patrik Juhlin-Peter Ottosson.
 Especially Stefan Ornskog worked hard throughout the game.
 Swedish coach Curt Lundmark also gave credit to defenders Stillman and
 Akerstrom. Stillman I can perhaps agree with but Akerstrom didn't have a
 good game.

 Team Finland played a very good game with aggressive skating and dangerous
 scoring attacks. The line with Huura-Jutila, Varvio-Seppo-Riihijarvi
 played really well and they could be a strong weapon for Pentti Matikainen,
 who BTW made his 172nd game as Finnish coach (new record), in the 93 WC.
 I don't know how Jarkko Varvio has played in SM-Liiga this fall but in
 this game he seemed to be back in the shape he was during WC 92.
 Also, maybe someone in Finland can tell me why Esa Keskinen, SM-liiga's
 scoring leader, won't play for Team Finland. The commentators yesterday
 said that Esa won't even answer questions about Team Finland. Is it some
 kind of trouble between him and Matikainen?

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 Here are the team as they played:

        SWEDEN 				       FINLAND

  G  1. Rolf Ridderwall			 G 35. Sakari Lindfors
 BG 30. Hakan Algotsson			BG  1. Ari-Pekka Siekkinen

 LD  7. Arto Blomsten			LD  7. Waltteri Immonen
 RD  2. Tomas Jonsson			RD  3. Mika Stromberg

 LW 31. Peter Larsson 			LW 16. Timo Norppa
  C  9. Thomas Rundqvist		 C 14. Jali Wahlsten
 RW 18. Jonas Bergqvist			RW 18. Sami Wahlsten

 LD 14. Fredrik Stillman		LD  5. Timo Jutila
 RD 27. Roger Akerstrom			RD 29. Pasi Huura

 LW 29. Mikael Renberg			LW 24. Juha Riihijarvi
  C 17. Daniel Rydmark			 C 13. Jukka Seppo
 RW  6. Anders Huusko			RW 28. Jarkko Varvio

 LD  3. Peter Popovic			LD  6. Pasi Sormunen
 RD 28. Christer Olsson			RD 44. Harri Laurila

 LW 11. Roger Hansson			LW 40. Petri Varis
  C 33. Fredrik Nilsson			 C 25. Rauli Raitanen
 RW 12. Hakan Loob			RW 42. Jari Korpisalo

 LW 24. Peter Ottosson			LD 26. Sami Nuutinen
  C 15. Stefan Ornskog			RD 12. Janne Laukkanen
 RW  5. Patrik Juhlin			
					LW 15. Mika Alatalo
 					 C 10. Jarmo Kekalainen
					RW 17. Marko Virtanen

 In the 3rd period Team Sweden made the following changes:
 32. Stefan Larsson substituted 28. Christer Olsson
 34. Stefan Elvenes substituted 31. Peter Larsson

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 Staffan
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