Did you notice Miro Heiskanen’s significant male work just before the Lions’ winning goal? The World Cup final culminates in these 50 seconds

The game clock stopped in the new Arena in Tampere at 66.42, when Sakari Mannisen the puck that left the stage found its way into the Canadian goalkeeper Matt Tomkins behind.

Manninen’s golden goal broke the years-long curse of the Finnish hockey national team’s home competitions and flew the Lions’ home away from the sky. Finland managed to celebrate World Cup gold in the extra round with 4-3 goals.

The hit with four over three against Manninen was a textbook-like goal from Manninen on the basic requirements for scoring, Sport’s expert Juha Juujärvi says. It was preceded by successful fighting games from Finland and the willingness of Finns to solve them.

– The goal was also the excellence of Finland’s playing and the play of superiority, not the badness of Canada. When a team creates a goal threat to an opponent from any direction, one of the options eventually gets a spot. Everyone played their part perfectly.

The Canadian captain started the superiority of the extra round that decided the Finnish match Thomas Chabot’n error and Finland Hannes Björnisen identification of the situation.

Björninen curved out the Finnish attacking area with a blue line in the extra round when the game clock shows 14.45. The Canadian Chabot followed the Finn closely from the right to the left. When Björninen had to turn the corner away from the goal to the center, the Canadian player hit him.

Chabot tried to push Björninen, who had protected the puck, out of the area. However, he pushed his body while pushing his club between Björninen’s legs and twisted it upwards.

The center of the Finnish four-chain chain fell forward from standing skates to highlight the Canadian offense. A two-minute penalty for hooking Chabot was whistled for the situation.

– The basic rule is that you can’t give a judge a chance to whistle. Their captain gave him the opportunity to do so, Juujärvi says.

The quartet Manninen, Granlund, Heiskanen and Teemu Hartikainen was well played. Granlund and Manninen, who painted twice in the match, brought a threat of a shot from the width, Hartikainen on the goal bar a line of sight and Heiskanen star-level line play.

Juujärvi points out that the offensive chain led by Manninen had played the lead in the tournament, mainly from defenders Mikko Lehtonen but now NHL star Heiskanen slipped on the ice.

– In addition to the fact that Heiskanen was a hot player, his qualities are very similar to Lehtonen’s. His line play was very crucial in the winning goal.

It took 50 seconds to win the second start of the force. Many good Finnish performances can be accommodated in this 50 seconds.

First, Granlund applied for Manninen’s half-destroyed start loose disc for Finland. The puck first moved to Hartikainen, but quickly returned to the upper triangle of Finland through a duel.

In the decisive exchange, Finland won two duels in the loose disc and made two stops on the unloading disc on the line. With these, the Lions were able to keep up with the Canadian trio throughout the rest of the superiority, and tired Canadians could not make the switch.

– The game of superiority started with the victories of the duel, ie Manninen’s starting victories. During the period of force majeure, Finland reacted excellently to both the return discs and the demolition, thus regaining control of the disc. For example, Heiskanen reacts in advance to where the demolition discs end up. It was really well played, Juujärvi opens.

Watch the 50-second animation of the events before Finland’s winning goal below. The story continues after the animation.

After his puck stripping, Manninen crossed Granlund, who fired. The bet bounced off Tomkins ’left leg through the defenders to a corner where the Canadians unloaded the puck straight into Heiskanen’s shoulder. Heiskanen calmed the situation and pulled the player at the top of the defense triangle Nicholas Royn attention.

– Heiskanen had a shot threat on, so Roy had to cover the cross-feed lines created by Granlund and Manninen so that the defender could not shoot too close.

This male work by Heiskanen was crucial to the Lions’ winning goal.

When Heiskanen calmed the game with a blue line, Granlund and Manninen mastered their movements according to Juujärvi.

The puck was played to Granlund. The Predators striker slipped behind Roy, into which Manninen slipped to perfect time. A shot directly from the feed that flashed through Tomkins’ left hand to the finish.

Graves, who played as a left-back, did not read Manninen’s threat in time. The game was over.

– Hartikainen made a mask and Tomkins made a mistake looking for a puck over him with his feet straight. As Granlund’s pass was about to leave, he had to fall down and therefore his kick from the ice and his side movement to cover the shot were delayed, Juujärvi times.

Manninen has shown his ability to be a decisive player whenever one is needed. The 30-year-old from Oulu, known by the nickname “Kyy”, has previously decided to solve the vital Finland-Sweden match in the national team earlier in the World Championships 2019.

– He said after the match that he thought he wanted to take on the cloak of that solver. He was so purposeful. It was immediately visible in the sequel: three shots with just over a minute’s superiority, Juujärvi praises Mann.

The post-heroes of the home competitions in Finnish puck history have one almost similar performance when viewed from Manninen. Kasperi Kapanen was losing a puck twice in the final change of the 2016 World Cup finals, from which Russia eventually scored a last-minute draw. However, the current NHL striker from Pittsburgh Penguins came on overtime and settled for World Cup gold with his individual performance.

Manninen expressed a similar willingness in Tampere. He said after the match that he was missed by an error that led to a Canadian handball goal. Matthew Barzal served a decisive pass through Manninen For Max Comtoiswho leveled the game in a time of 58.36.

– During the break, I think I need one shift in overtime. I wanted to score a goal so that I could clear my mistake, Manninen said in an interview with C. More.

– That all told us what kind of focus and desire he had to win the game with his team, Juujärvi yttää.