For the first time in Olympic history, Finland is taking home a hockey gold medal.
“It’s big. Hockey is a big thing in Finland. This is for all of us for sure. We have come close a couple of times and it is finally nice to get the first one.”
The first period of the gold medal game was mostly dull, though the Russian athletes did manage to open the scoring at the contest’s 7:17 mark when forward Mikhail Grigorenko beat Sateri with a wrister through traffic on the power play. The ROC took its 1-0 lead into the first intermission, but it took the Finns just 3:28 into the middle stanza to tie the game up at one goal apiece. Ville Pokka fired what appeared to be a harmless wrister toward the ROC net, but it redirected on its way to the goal and made its way past Russian netminder Ivan Fedotov.
In the third period, the Finns struck quickly once again. Just 29 seconds into the final frame, Hannes Bjorninen fired a wrister through traffic to break the 1-1 tie and log the eventual game-winner. It was Bjorninen’s first goal of the tournament, and it came at the perfect time.The Russian athletes were the odds-on favorites to take home the gold in Beijing.
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