By AJ Petronzi
In Play Magazine
Finland came out and dominated the Belarus team, wining the game 4-1. Niklas Hagman scored two goals and Teemu Selanne assisted on a goal to move into a tie as the highest points scorer in Olympic history. The Red Wings’ Valtteri Filppula scored Finland’s third goal which came just seconds into the third period. Grand Rapids Sergei Kolosov was not involved in any of the offense for Belarus.
Sweden, on the other hand, struggled against Germany. Germany should have been one of the easier teams in this bracket. While Finland did take silver in 2006, Belarus has an upset history with Sweden which includes a forth place finish in 2002. Sweden only scored two goals against Germany which also didn’t play well. While Sweden contains the largest number Red Wings of all the Olympic squads, none of them were involved with in offence in the game.
Later tonight the Czech Republic takes on Slovakia (two teams and nations that have bad blood with each other). The update for that game will come tomorrow along with more from the USA, Canada, and Russia (which plays Slovakia).
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