Sweden to semi, Finland to relegation

The referees took some of the spotlight in this very important game with many penalties to both teams. The game saw a total of seven goals.

Sweden took the lead when Alexander Wennberg put a tiny deflection on a wrist shot from the blueline by Christian Djoos. The goal were scored on a power play after a questionable Finnish penalty. Less than a minute later Robert Hägg also took a wrist shot from the blueline, this time it went straight in for 2-0.

When Viktor Rask made it 3-0 after a lucky bounce on the power play evertyhing seemed set at a Swedish victory. But then it was time for actions by the referee and four Swedish penalties later, some of them very questionable, the game was tied 3-3 early in the second.

Finland showed a very good power play with Joel Armia scoring twice after great shots and Rasmus Ristolainen once. After 3-3 Sweden decided to replace their goalie Lassinantti with Lundström, not because he was bad but because he had a very difficult start to the game with almost only power play shots against him. In fact he did a spectular stick save to deny a certain Finnish goal just before the 3-3 goal was score.

The reminder of the period was even but at the 16 minute mark Sweden scored two goals that decided the game, two some what lucky goals by Viktor Arvidsson and Filip Forsberg with shots that found their way through traffic.

Finland in desperate need of at least one point to qualify for the quarter finals got one goal back by Järveläinen and had a power play chance at the end but a hooking by Armia gave Sweden the chance instead and Emil Molin made it 6-4 before Arvidsson scored his second on the empty net.

Sweden wins group A despite that they still haven't played a full good game, while Finland heads into the relegation round a big failure for them. Switzerland can also be very pleased with the Swedish win as that takes them to quarter finals.

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