Finland will face Canada today in the World Hockey Final in Tampere. Sports expert Ismo Lehkonen expects Leijonat to have a sharper start in the match than in the semi-finals and semi-finals.
Lions will play against Canada today in the World Hockey Final in Tampere. This is the first time in history that the same countries will meet for the third time in a row in the final.
Sports Expert Ismo Lehkonen highlights three picks in this story for the final starting at 8:20 p.m.
1. Finland needs a better start than in previous games
The start of the lions has been sluggish against both Slovakia and the United States. Both managed to score the first goal and Slovakia even two, but Finland managed to rise to victories.
According to Lehkonen, Canada is an excellent team in the lead.
– They’re defending really well. It is clear that the start must be more crisp than in the previous two matches. Yes, it has certainly been talked about in the semi-finals Hannes Björninen came to take the first start so that it could be accessed and rolled out immediately, Lehkonen says.
– The game just hasn’t started rolling right away. The beginnings have been a bit soft and tense, but it must be raised in Finland that the games have slowly turned to Finland. Lions is a really strong group mentally.
2. The lion cannot be shaken by physical intimidation
The United States tried to confuse Finnish players with an aggressive approach, especially in the first group match. Lehkonen will closely monitor the Canada tactical approach.
– Head coach Claude Julien knows that Finland will not be disciplined by physical play. In lions, the feeling does not come from the mittens. They don’t fumble in the same way as the Czechs, against whom there was a clear plan of play to annoy them.
– No matter how Canada tries to prepare, Finland’s discipline can still be poison and it can go to emotions. It should be possible to coldly punish any places of superiority.
Slovakia and the United States hit hard on the Finnish defense and got the Lions on their toes, especially at the beginning of the games.
– Would Canada go for flow bitterness, where the hair is hard but doesn’t take the tackles to the end, it’s more of a game of exploitation? They have also had various trap variations that try to take away Finland’s control outputs.
– With goalkeeping they are tough at both ends, that’s a clear thing.
3. Starts are highlighted – what is the significance of the gaming benefit?
The Lions is the home team, that is Jukka Jalonen if they wish, they can use the last option to decide who will play against whom. Lehkonen, who closely followed Julienia as Montreal’s coach, says that playing for a 62-year-old veteran is very important.
– Julien is really looking at how his opponent plays. He wants his own big boys to play quite a lot in minutes, while Finland plays pretty slavishly in the numerical order of the fields. Maybe Julien would leave to try that Pierre-Luc Dubois’n would the field play against everyone except Björninen?
Part of the intimidation is also putting certain cents against each other. The puck is an instrument of power that both of them desperately want from the start for themselves.
– The starts are in Canadian DNA, and they will prepare for them very carefully. Finland should get them for its own team in one way or another in order to have an attack-defense-attack rhythm. It was not typical for Julien in Montreal times to play through downtown, meaning they will play straight through the side lanes.