Old clichés can be “attack is the best form of defense,” but trying to tell Finland, who will rely on their defense opportunities, because they try to preserve their medal on hope at the World Hockey Championship in one of the fourth quarterfinals.

The match will play in Stockholm’s Avicii Arenawhere Finland He played all the seven of their group matches, winning six – four in the regulation time, one in overtime and once in the shooting – and suffers only one loss, as they were in third place, while they finished the third in the table.

It will hope that a familiar environment could be in their usefulness over Americans, who have completed others in the group B, which played in a completely in herning, Denmark.

But the larger advantage of Finn could be their play style, which relies on a solid defense show.

Despite never shooting in the group, they have received exactly one goal in five of their seven matches, while they can still ruin more than three in the game, the record is equal only Canada On the tournament.

Even forward in rates Leijonat know the significance of their defense, including Jan-Mikael Jarvinentalking to IIHF after 2-1 wins over Slovakia to complete the group phase.

“Our system is based on non-perhaps in a lot of goals, it’s crucial to us. The game against Canada showed that if we believe in our system we can beat any team.”

The game against Canada was a true nail biteR, in which Finnish finished opponents the perfect record in the competition, and now the task is to descend the other great superpower with great American hockeyes, the Now.

Finland has reached 22 goals in the group phase, although more than 40% of their strikes came in winning 9-1 Slovenia. Objectives from 34 groups in the United States just emphasize the need for foreign Antti Pennanen to live up to their respectable reputation.

They will also need them Hair Saros play in the best best – The goalkeeper has savings savings from 95.92 so far, much better speed than anyone who comes close to 302 minutes, he spent on the ice.

Waltteri Merelathat opened his account for the objectives for the Tournament against Slovakia, looked at the challenge of the last eight and potentially out of leijonat.fi, “It starts to open and now the sought games are forward,” He said.

“We believe in this thing, everything is possible. This is the best team. I very much dealing with this season, and that was an incredibly great trip. I look forward to playing.”

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