Finland Beat Latvia 2-1 in Ice Hockey WC

Helsingin Sanomat follows the day of the Ice Hockey World Championship.

Our hockey players are likely to face a key duel tonight in terms of the fight for advancement to the quarterfinals of this year's World Championships, when we challenge the Latvians. What kind of fight do you expect against the Baltic opponent? I think we can expect an even match. It will be difficult, as the Latvians skate well, are dedicated and also quite aggressive. However, I assume that there will not be many goals. It will be more about …

Stockholm/Herning - The Slovak hockey team faces an important match today at the World Championship in the fight for a place in the quarterfinals. After a 0:7 defeat by Canada, the currently fourth team in Group A will face Latvia, ahead of whom they have a one-point lead in the standings, at 8:20 PM in Stockholm.

Finland beat Latvia 2-1 in Ice Hockey WC

Finland scored their fourth victory in the first round of the Ice Hockey World Championship after beating Latvia by 2 goals to 1 in Avicii Arena, Stockholm, Sweden on Saturday. Although Latvia lost the game, they fought against the former world champions very strongly and also created several chances. Juuso Parssinen scored the first goal for the Lions at 28th minute and Mikko Lehtonen widened the gap at 51st minute to take 2-0 lead. Rodrigo Abo…

Finland scored an important victory at the Ice Hockey World Championship held in Sweden and Denmark, defeating Latvia 2:1 in Stockholm.

The Latvians played a great opening period and significantly outscored their opponents in the number of accurate shots on goal by 12:3. However, the Finns were held back by the attentive goalie Saro and were also lucky. Especially in the fourth minute, when the Latvians were outnumbered two to one, Abols encouraged Daugavinš to score, but he did not hit the bouncing puck fully and missed the goal. Daugavinš had another chance shortly before the …