The Russian sports media criticized the refereeing of the World Hockey Championship final, the Finnish players who left KHL and the fact that the big hockey country had nothing to do with the Finnish World Hockey Tournament. However, Jukka Jalonen received recognition.
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The fourth World Championship gold in the history of the Finnish national hockey team was not overlooked in the headlines of the Russian sports media.
Russia and Belarus were not allowed to participate in this year’s World Cup due to the war started by the Russian leadership in Ukraine, but the puck journalists from the eastern neighbor closely followed Sunday’s World Cup final between Finland and Canada. Finland exported gold in its home competitions Sakari Mannisen With a 4-3 overtime hit.
The judging of the World Cup finals has since been heavily criticized, and the Russian media was no exception.
Swedish judges Mikael Nordin and Linus Öhlundin decision to send to Canada Cole Sillinger in the third installment to the ice boxes from a high racket did not please nearly everyone. Sillinger struggled on the sidelines Miro Heiskasen but later the slow motion showed that Heiskanen ‘s face was hit by his own racket. Finland gained the power of two players, with which Mikael Granlund evened the match 1-1.
– Swedish judges decided to help their geographical neighbors. In the third installment, three coolers were whistled in favor of the host team while the Canadians were in the attack zone. — Sillinger’s cool was literally pulled from his hat. It took a lot of desire if you were going to see a breach of the rules, a sports site Champions (switch to another service) wrote.
The sequel also saw a situation that aroused a bunch when Thomas Chabot was passed to the cold store Hannes Björnisen pouring. During the force majeure, Manninen fired into the Finnish World Cup gold.
A record editor for Match TV, a sports channel known for its Kremlin support Pavel Lysenkov wrote that he was playing with the idea of Russia playing in the World Cup final instead of Canada.
– We would not have had any chance, even if we had had a goal (Andrei) Vasilevsky and in attack (Nikita) Kutsherov and (Artemi) Panarin. In Finland, we would have been destroyed by the judges, albeit in an even more cynical way than in Canada, Lysenkov wrote and described this year’s World Cup as the grayest and most talented in decades.
“How could football be watched without Brazil?”
The reactions of the Russian media were also disappointing that the great country of hockey was not involved in this year’s World Cup.
– The World Cup without Russia is not what sports experts and fans want to see. The situation is really strange. I don’t know how to watch football without Brazil or basketball without a US team, hockey coach Konstantin Kurashev said Sports.ru (you switch to another service) by.
Popular Sports Magazine Sport Ekspress (switch to another service) reminded that the Finnish World Cup team had several puck players who played in KHL during the past season, such as Sakari Manninen, who scored the final goal. Manninen represented Salavat Yulayev Ufa, but, like many European players, left the KHL after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Sport Ekspress did not react with the departure of the Finnish players with understanding, but wrote Manninen, the goalkeeper Jussi Olkinuoran and the partners “betrayed their club at the most important moment of the season.” In the commentary section of the article, however, many readers set out to defend Finnish players.
– They did the right thing when they left. Fate rewarded them for the right choice, one of the commentators wrote.
“There is no denial of Jalonen’s great work”
In the midst of criticism, Russian hockey journalists also praised Finland’s perseverance and head coach Jukka Jalosen the culture of victory created by it.
– Jukka Jalonen’s great work in recent years is not about banning. His team won the Olympic finals at the end of Russia’s honest and tough fight, the Champions recalled the Lions ’Sky at the Beijing Olympics.
– Jalonen has made Finns international dominators: in three years the result has been three World Cup finals, two golds and an Olympic victory, Sports.ru (switch to another service) wrote.
– I see pictures of Finnish men climbing lantern poles in their happiness, I see the Prime Minister Sanna Marinin encouraging his team with a glass of wine in his hand and starting to understand where the success of the national team comes from, Petukhov described.
– The Finns rejoice and then return to their daily work – they build their league, grow their players and develop the way the national team plays. That’s why their winning streak doesn’t end there.