What a day.
Quarterfinals Game 1: Finland Edges Slovakia in Overtime
Them’s the breaks, I guess.
Game Notes
- It was genuinely a game of will versus talent here. Finland clearly had the high-grade talent to keep the Slovaks working, but man the Slovaks worked as hard as humanly possible to actually show that they belonged. They probably did belong a little more than Finland does just based on how their tourney went, but one blown assignment is all it takes in these knockout games, as it was when Lassila blasted through the entire Slovakian defense to get the overtime winner.