21:00: Sweden-Finland quarterfinal JVM – Göteborgs-Posten

The message: Expect a close game. That’s what Richard Grönborg have said to the players before Friday night’s quarter-final against Finland in the JVM hockey.

– They have a severe played team, says Junior crown coach.

Some major New Year’s celebration was never any question about Rikard Grönborg. After the 5-1 victory against Switzerland became a fancy dinner at the hotel and just after 2014 became 2015 was the coach in his bed at the hotel in downtown Toronto.

What were his thoughts?

Friday’s quarter-final against Finland at the Air Canada Centre, and there will be a new tough match against the nation that Sweden was the final in Malmo last year.

– It is a defense-oriented team that has some players who can make that decision. It is a good composite team, says Grönborg. – We know they have a team and it will be tough.

It was the first in the group game’s closing match that Finland tinkered a place in the quarter-finals.

And it was with the tournament’s first victory.

After the premiere defeat to the United States, after penalties, followed by another defeat against Slovakia and Canada. It saved the coach Hannu Jortikkas crew was New Year’s evening 2-0 victory against Germany.

– They may not have received the dividend ahead as they might have wanted, and it is well mainly where the shoe pinches in this tournament, says Grönborg perhaps above all, has warned of the Finnish goalies Ville Husso and Juuse Saros.

Last year, the Saros and defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen, with the decisive goal in the long run, that was behind the final victory with 3-2 in Malmö Arena

– Above all, they have a good goalie game, and it’s the same pair as last year, says Grönborg. –

Both players are very good and no matter which of them gets to play, it becomes a nut for us to crack.

Hill Robert Hägg, who himself pointed out to the great scapegoat after the final loss, says he was not particularly eye on Finland. The only thing he has seen of the team during the championship in Canada are a few clips that rolled on television.

But it does not matter, according Hägg.

– We just have to keep playing like we have done so far, that is what has brought us to four straight wins, he says. – It has not acted not about skill, but only if the hard job for sixty minutes. Then we hope that our power play and short-handed work, for there are two important things for the rest of the playoffs.

quarterfinals In the JVM
Junior crowns won all the matches in the group stage and is set against Finland in the quarterfinals on Friday.

Playoff Schedule:

The quarter finals: US Russia, at 19:00 Swedish time, at the Bell Centre, Montreal.
Sweden-Finland, 21:00 Swedish time, the Air Canada Centre , Toronto.
Czech-Slovak, 23:00 Swedish time, at the Bell Centre, Montreal.
Canada-Denmark, at 02.00 the night of Saturday, Swedish time, at the Air Canada Centre, Toronto.
Semi-finals: is determined on January 4th in Toronto.
Final and Bronze Medal Match: is played on January 5th in Toronto.