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Another surprise in the World Top Division ice hockey underway in Minsk, Belarus. Finland ranked fourth in the world championship last year, is In fact, they were beaten by the amazing Latvia who ruled the Finns for 3 to 2.
Sunday 11 May 2014 3 minutes reading time
The Finnish team one of the favorites for the final podium, had started the match well, passing an early lead thanks to Salomaki after only 4 marking the beginning of the game. Immediate response after only 2 minutes Latvian found the equalizer with Daugavinis able to exploit an assist Redlihs.
In the second period, Finland increased again in the lead, capitalizing on the best situation of superiority Numerical punishing opponents with a goal of Mäntylä. '' But in the last drittel came the Baltic Sotnieks with that first and then with Kulda have turned things in their favor setting the score at final 3 to 2, taking home 3 points therefore unexpected.
Quest'' today in the same group of Latvia and Finland also took to the track Kazakhstan-Germany-Switzerland and the United States. In the first match-fought victory of the German team that has folded the competition only to Kazakh shootout after a game rather uncertain. In other race'' second success in this world edition for the U.S. who have had the better of Switzerland for 3 to 2.
In group A, as well as Italy and Norway have also addressed the Canada-Sweden-Denmark and Slovakia. The Scandinavian derby as forecast is been dominated by the formation Swede who won by 3 to 0.'' In another match where he faced the first two bars of the first day, success net of Canada (4-1), which dragged down by two goals from Ward got so the first victory in this world.
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