I was watching this online and for some reason everything darkened for 5 seconds. I heard Mertaranta say that there's the first goal. For some reason I was convinced it was Finland's goal, even when I saw it was zoomed at Rinne. Took me a while to realize: Holy s--t ... It was BELARUS! :|
It didn't sound plausible, you know. I managed to see that Belarus took the face-off... but when you suddenly can't see and it's Belarus against Finland and there's an instant goal, you just automatically assume that of these two it would have to be Finland. I was pretty incredulous at the moment... And so was Mertaranta most apparently. "Huh... huh..." as he put it.
Belarus has some pretty good forward players, but their defencemen were pretty crappy in that game. They were very stiff and slow. Overall, Belarus's offensive game was pretty limited, the whole arena kept "boo-ing" them when they just held the puck and did nothing during their last 2-minute overtime. But belarus did well on the penalty shootouts, cant deny that. skilled wingers. good that Finland beat canada in penalty shootouts though. it kind of compensates for this embarresment xD
good luck finland, CZECH ARE BEST IN LAST 20 YEARS - 6X GOLD, 1X SILVER, 3X BRONZE, second is Canada 3x gold, 4x silver and 1x bronze and third is Russia - 3x gold, 2x silver, 2x bronze!!!