He has scored three games in a row and continues happily the suite in the semi-final against Finland.
Adrian Kempe, 19, lowered arch rival from the east in last year’s JVM and aim at a favorite in the replay:
– It was a great feeling to beat them last year and it will be a great feeling to beat them this year too, he says.
The meeting between Sweden and Finland to more than 13 000 spectators in a packed Hartwall Arena in Helsinki, described as a dream match.
It can also be described as the meeting of the Tournament the best team and the tournament’s best individualists.
Sweden is the only team so far to have won all five of its matches in regular time.
They have four production chains, three stable backpar and goalkeeper Linus Söderström clean sheets in two of their four games played.
In this places Finland a first line to the east 15 goals and 38 total points in five games.
The tournament’s best player Jesse Puljujärvi has 15 points (5 goals + 10 assists) and kedjekamraterna Sebastian Aho 12 (4 + 8) and Patrick Laine 11 (6 + 5).
Puljujärvi born in Älvkarleby in northern Uppland, has twice Citizenship – but laugh when a national team bytes jokingly brought up.
– I will be wearing the Finnish national team jersey for ever, says Puljujärvi who lived in Sweden until he was four years old.
Should Junior crowns get to a gold match, the Finnish first chain contained.
– You have to play physical against them so they feel uncomfortable, says team captain and reverse cliff Andreas Englund.
In last year’s tournament, Toronto shot Adrian Kempe the match winning 4-3 goal in the quarter-finals when Sweden scored three straight goals in the final period and won 6-3.
The year before the law was met in a dramatic final in Malmö, Sweden and Finland won gold by winning 3-2 after extra time.
– I think we have a more complete team than what they have. Both have a good offensive, but we have a better defensive, says Kempe.
Sweden comes to games without slope Adam Ollas Mattsson, who got injured in the quarter-final against Slovakia and has finished playing in the tournament. The same applies to forward the star William Nylander, who went on a head injury in the opener against Switzerland.
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