Finnkampen, U19 men: Sweden - Finland 17:4 (4:0, 4:2, 9:2), Shootout 2:1

After the Swedish Under 19 girls had beaten Finland by 5:0 (which I was unable to report from, as my flight departed not early enough to reach Västeras in time), the Swedish young boys gave their neighbor country's team another tough defeat. Especially in the third period, where Finland had a period score of 2:9, the guests at Västeras Finnkampen 2009 showed a terrible match and were slammed down by Sweden. As the hosts also won the shootout extra point, Sweden lead 5:1 after the first two matches.



  Schweden U19   Finnland U19
1 Jon Hedlund (TW) 1 Pasi Järvinen (TW)
2 Martin Andersson 2 Tomi Toivonen
3 Niclas Eriksson 3 Niko Kejonen
5 Matthias Ljunggren 4 Ilari Talvitie
6 Daniel Thorsson 5 Niklas Niiranen
7 Martin Ojaniemi 6 Jukka Lindgren
8 Jimmie Pettersson 7 Niko Jumppanen
9 Anders Nygren 8 Otto Tikka
10 Niklas Winroth 9 Lauri Sternfors
11 Bobby Edberg 10 Janne Karisto
14 Jonas Agren 12 Miro Lehtinen
15 Wilmer Viinamäki 13 Onni Piiparinen
16 Victor Andersson 15 Casper Pfitzner
17 Rickard Eriksson 17 Tomi Palin
18 Emil Julkunen 18 Jesse Tolvanen
19 Kevin Lundgren (C) 21 Mikko Malinen
20 Matthias Norman 22 Mikko Pasanen
21 Henrik Stenberg 23 Jere Oksanen
22 Rickard Hessmer 30 Miko Sjöholm
30 Andreas Beckius (TW)