Sweden2 – Finland 2:1 (after OT) | Switzerland – Russia 4:2 (end) | Germany2 – Czech Republic 2:1 (end)
final/OT
Sweden2
2:1 (0:0, 1:0, 0:1 - 1:0)
Finland
Wednesday 04.01.2012, 15:00 • U18 Women’s World Championship
     
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    Finland dominated only in the third period of this game and that was not enough. Swedish girls seem to have more strenghts in overtime their win is well-deserved.
     
    Best players of the game: Johanna Koivisto (FIN) - Sara Besseling (SWE).
     
    67:27
    Match finish.
     
    67:27
    Goal for Team Sweden!

    Sweden advances to semifinal thanks to shot taken by MATILDAH ANDERSSON from the right circle.Assisted by Linnea Hedin, Linn Peterson.
     
    65:00
    Kjellbin missed the net only by inches.
     
    64:25
    Sweden is more active in overtime. Finnish girls have hardly crossed the red line in last minutes.
     
    62:19
    Both teams are playing very carefuly. We don't see many shots.
     
    60:38
    Tulus had a good chance standing near the right post.
     
    60:27
    Sweden in full strength.
     
    60:37
    Finland is still playing power-play.
     
    60:01
    Overtime began.
     
    Shots on target in the third period: Sweden 7 - Finland 10.
     
    We are going to see overtime.
     
    60:00
    Third period finished.
     
    59:22
    Kiloponen hit Besselings left pad.
     
    58:27
    Hedin (SWE) gets minor penalty for hooking.
     
    57:30
    Johansson's shot stopped by Portnoj's hand.
     
    55:52
    Suokko was standing alone in front of Swedish goalie but the puck did not reach her.
     
    54:04
    Swedish girls occupy their offensive zone. But they are being pushed to the corners.
     
    52:48
    Both team focused on good defense in last minutes.
     
    50:44
    Carlsson is back from the penalty bench.
     
    49:36
    What a great Finnish power-play. But Besseling is still holding score leveled.
     
    48:44
    Olivia Carlsson (SWE) gets minor penalty for too many players.
     
    47:18
    Linnea Hedin as a defenseman found her way right in front of the net but her shot only hit goalie's pad.
     
    46:03
    Finnish PP brought couple of shots but only few were dangerous.
     
    43:58
    Amanda Lundberg (SWE) gets minor penalty for hooking.
     
    43:18
    Goal for Team Finland!

    EMMA NUUTINEN took shot from the left circle and it luckily rolled over Besseling's left pad. The score is tied! Assisted by Anni Rantanen.
     
    43:03
    Suokko's shot deflected behind the net.
     
    41:20
    Nuutinen took a shot from the left circle.
     
    40:01
    Third period began.
     
    Shots on target in the second period Sweden 12 - Finland 8.
     
    40:00
    Second period finished.
     
    39:12
    Swedish girls are under pressure in the last minutes. But they are still holding a close lead.
     
    36:53
    Sweden is playing at full strength.
     
    36:44
    Great moments of the Swedish goalie. She keeps on saving on many Finnish shots from all positions.
     
    36:16
    Kilponen's shot from the blue line hit the post!
     
    35:20
    Besseling saved two shots.
     
    34:53
    It's going to be interesting. A long 5 on 3 PP for Finland as Linnea Hedin (SWE) gets minor penalty for delaying the game.
     
    34:49
    Isabell Palm (SWE) gets minor penalty for body checking.
     
    33:43
    Vainionpää face to face Swedish goalie didn't succeed.
     
    31:58
    Swedish defense showed a couple of uncorrect passes and Besseling stopped the game.
     
    29:41
    Lillback's shot deflected by Yucel in front of the net, but the puk went only into the middle and Portnoj had no problem to save it.
     
    27:59
    We haven't seen many interesting actions in last minutes. Teams are playing mostly in the middle zone.
     
    26:58
    Face off in Finnish defensive zone after their icing.
     
    25:10
    Lindhold shot from the right wing, Hjorth saved it.
     
    23:50
    Petersson tried to pass to the second post but Portnoj deflected the puck and stopped this promising Swedish chance.
     
    22:19
    Jenna Suokko (FIN) gets minor penalty for body checking.
     
    21:31
    Goal for Team Sweden!

    Sweden goes into the lead after a serious mistake of Finnish goalie. Portnoj didn't manage to keep Lindbergs in her hand, it fell out and LINN PETERSON shot it back behind the line. Assisted by Amanda Lindberg.
     
    20:46
    Nuutinen hit Hjort's mask. Swedish goalie seem to be all right.
     
    Second period started.
     
    Sweden was a better team in the first period. They took more shots but not many of them were dangerous.
     
    Shots on target in the first period: SWE 10 - FIN 5.
     
    First period over.
     
    19:41
    Hedin took another shot from the right circle.
     
    19:06
    Team Sweden is playing at full strength.
     
    17:58
    Valkama's back-hand shot hit Hjorth's mask.
     
    17:06
    Isabell Palm (SWE) gets minor penalty for body checking.
     
    15:21
    Nuutinen missed the upper right corner of Swedish net.
     
    13:33
    Team Finland is playing at full strength.
     
    13:34
    Backlin's hard shot and another two by Lindberg but Portnoj saved them all.
     
    12:43
    Sweden played a dangerous PP. Portnoj had to save two hard shots from the blue line.
     
    11:33
    Laura Vainionpää (FIN) gets minor penalty for tripping.
     
    10:29
    A hard shot right after the face off by Eidenstein.
     
    09:37
    Swedes have no problem to enter their offensive zone. But they haven't been able to get closer to the Finnish net. All their shots go from a long distance.
     
    08:09
    Ollikainen stole the puck in the middle zone and took a back-hand shot. Hjorth had to show a difficult save.
     
    07:26
    Hedin took two shots from the right wing. Both of them hit the goalie.
     
    05:30
    Lennartsson in a good chance in front of the Finnish net.
     
    05:04
    We are seeing a level game, Sweden has had a little more shots.
     
    02:39
    Finnish girls are attacking but they can not get out of the corners.
     
    00:40
    Swedes occupied the offensive zone for almost half a minute.
     
    00:26
    Hedin's shot missed the net.
     
    00:01
    Match started.
     
    A group of finnish fans seem to be quite noisy today.
     
    Referee and linesmen have entered the rink and now the players are coming too.
     
    Welcome to our live commentary from the 1st quarterfinal game of the tournament. As Team Canada and Team USA have secured their positions in semi-finals, Sweden - Finland and Germany - Czech Republic are going to compete for the othe two positions.
     
    Line-ups:

    Sweden: Hjorth (Besseling) - Kjellbin, Hedin, Lillback, Backlin, Ekstrom, Fridh, Markstrom, Alasalmi - Andersson, Lowenhielm, Carlsson - Peterson, Lindberg, Yucel - Johansson, Lennartsson, Kuller - Eidenstein, Palm, Wong

    Finland: Ranne (Portnoj) - Koivisto, Kilponen, Valkjärvi, Vitasuo, Lindholm, Meriläinen, Tuovinen, Uppgard – Kotkaslahti, Ollikainen, Rantanen – Tulus, Nuutinen, Suokko – Alanko, Tanskanen, Valkama - Ritari, Vainionpää, Maamäki

    Referees: Allen (USA) - Connolly (USA), Fuchsel (DEN).
     
    Welcome. Match will begin in 15:00.
    Commentary by

    Michal Slavík

    CZ@slavikmichal

    Goals & lineups Match log
    Goals and assists: 22. Peterson (Lindberg), 68. Andersson (Hedin, Peterson) - 44. Nuutinen (Rantanen)

    Sweden2: Besseling (Hjorth) - Kjellbin, Hedin, Lillback, Backlin, Ekstrom, Fridh, Markstrom, Alasalmi - Andersson, Lowenhielm, Carlsson - Peterson, Lindberg, Yucel - Johansson, Lennartsson, Kuller - Eidenstein, Palm, Wong
    Finland: Portnoj (Ranne) - Koivisto, Kilponen, Valkjärvi, Vitasuo, Lindholm, Meriläinen, Tuovinen, Uppgard – Kotkaslahti, Ollikainen, Rantanen – Tulus, Nuutinen, Suokko – Alanko, Tanskanen, Valkama - Ritari, Vainionpää, Maamäki
    Referees: Allen (USA) - Connolly (USA), Fuchsel (DEN)