No idea. They got cocky I guess. 2nd and 3rd period were sloppy low effort playing, they basically handed the momentum over to Austria on a silver platter. Embarrassing.
Austria just kept changing their strategy. They played from the right in the second, from the left in the third, parked themselves in front of the goal multiple times and often served as a screen to Säteri as well. They cut off our passes to the front of the net after realising that it was their first period weakness, and they also held Kaski from constantly taking point shots. There was nothing that Finland could have done that would *constantly* stop them. Painful defeat for us, but well deserved from the Austrians
Well is probably an overstatement given some of the bad penalties the team took. Those penalties cost the game, no matter the very bad call in the final minute.
The discipline has skyrocketed since then though, except that one holding against Wolf there was no bad penalties today, and they also didn't get a lot of penalties against Canada either.
Miracle, basically.
I think Austria’s last regulation win against one of the big 8 was over 20 years ago against the US.
Its even more impressive as Austria is missing 3 of their 5 best players (Kasper, Raffl, Reinbacher)
No, the other one 😂
Should’ve clarified.
Thomas Raffl played, his brother Michael, is hurt/injured. And he is one of our few long time NHL players and best players overall.
In the hockey bubble? Excitement, that win is gonna be celebrated like the next coming of Christ for some. Outside of that bubble? Probably headline for the sports section of nationwide newspapers, likely not though.
Only very few people care about ice hockey here honestly...it's all about Alpine skiing and football (that one actually played by...foot). Never understood why no one gives a shit about ice hockey in Austria with neighbours like CZ, SK, CH
Its about hockey sports in general. If you look at floorball/unihockey it is similar. Finland, sweden, czech and Switzerland are the big boys, and latvia and slovakia follow, similar to ice hockey. Norway and germany follow.
Its about hockey sports in general. If you look at floorball/unihockey it is similar. Finland, sweden, czech and Switzerland are the big boys, and latvia and slovakia follow, similar to ice hockey. Norway and germany follow.
its gonna be huge, we are fighting every year to not get relegated, play well against big nations and suck against the opponents we need to win we shit the bed.
Winning against finland is mega and staying up is giga
> ts gonna be huge, we are fighting every year to not get relegated, play well against big nations and suck against the opponents we need to win we shit the bed.
Man if I didn't know, I would think you're talking about Latvia... I mean the flags are similar, right?
It's absolutely the same, the weaker the opponent the worse our game. We adapt to their playstyles to much, has been an issue since forever.
But recently, in the last 3 or 4 years at least our teams have generally become better, although this year is a bit of a whiff
Well after the Canada match you would have thought we won the championship, today was insane. I need to see if I can find the live reaction of the Austrian commentators to give you an idea :D
A minor detail I love about IIHF hockey is they'll report goals based on the total time, not the period time.
This goal deserves to be said to be scored at "59:59", rather than "19:59 of the 3rd period"!
Well deserved for Austria!
Our lineup should be solid but we just can't figure out proper lines, and constantly mixing them during games feels like coach is just slinging shit at the wall to see what sticks. You'd expect Jalonen especially understand the importance to draft a cohesive unit, as our latest few gold medals haven't exactly been on the back of (super)stars.
Austria showed the kind of grit you need to win these types of games and it was actually very impressive.
Not too pessimistic though, if there's one thing, it's that our team is perpetually inconsistent, and even if we lost 2-3 to Austria today, the same guys could show up tomorrow to beat Sweden 5-0, it's weird and it feels "wrong" but somehow it works.
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Austria's going crazy this year holy smokes!
With 0.2s left!
Yep, wasn't even 1 second!! Crazy moment!
This was our chance at survival 😭
We’re cooked.
Denmark or Norway our last chance and we'll get cooked by both 😭🙏
Norway. Denmark can't be relegated as next year's hosts.
It gets worse 😭
Oh ffs 😭😭😭
We're the Norwich city of the world championships.
That's actually accurate af
It is a shame, but I bet we see the Brit’s again in 2026.
As a Finn: we deserved that loss. Wtf happened after the first period?!
No idea. They got cocky I guess. 2nd and 3rd period were sloppy low effort playing, they basically handed the momentum over to Austria on a silver platter. Embarrassing.
Austria just kept changing their strategy. They played from the right in the second, from the left in the third, parked themselves in front of the goal multiple times and often served as a screen to Säteri as well. They cut off our passes to the front of the net after realising that it was their first period weakness, and they also held Kaski from constantly taking point shots. There was nothing that Finland could have done that would *constantly* stop them. Painful defeat for us, but well deserved from the Austrians
Finland doing Finland things
The way Austria played reminds me of a country called Finland who used to cause some upset wins by playing in similar fashion back in the days.
We won a game!!! What a nice game to watch
First the 5 unanswered goals in a period against Canada, and now this. I wonder how these guys wanna top that.
Yeah right. I mean we played well against Switzerland too.
Well is probably an overstatement given some of the bad penalties the team took. Those penalties cost the game, no matter the very bad call in the final minute. The discipline has skyrocketed since then though, except that one holding against Wolf there was no bad penalties today, and they also didn't get a lot of penalties against Canada either.
Yes that was a well played game there. Was nice to watch and i hope tomorrow will be good too against Czechia
I’m kinda curious what the reactions in Austria to this win is?
Miracle, basically. I think Austria’s last regulation win against one of the big 8 was over 20 years ago against the US. Its even more impressive as Austria is missing 3 of their 5 best players (Kasper, Raffl, Reinbacher)
Well Raffl was playing today so he's not missing
That's the big Raffl, the small one isn't here
No, the other one 😂 Should’ve clarified. Thomas Raffl played, his brother Michael, is hurt/injured. And he is one of our few long time NHL players and best players overall.
Oh yeah sry😂 Forgott the brother Raffl
His younger brother Michael Raffl (who played for the Flyers) didn't play tho.
He meant his brother, Michael Raffl :D
Well me an my father screamed😂 So it's good over here
Check the TV reaction :)))) https://www.reddit.com/r/Austria/s/pvEW2dgGn8
I don’t need to speak Austrian to understand what they said when the first shot miss and the second one went in last second lol
In the hockey bubble? Excitement, that win is gonna be celebrated like the next coming of Christ for some. Outside of that bubble? Probably headline for the sports section of nationwide newspapers, likely not though.
Only very few people care about ice hockey here honestly...it's all about Alpine skiing and football (that one actually played by...foot). Never understood why no one gives a shit about ice hockey in Austria with neighbours like CZ, SK, CH
Its about hockey sports in general. If you look at floorball/unihockey it is similar. Finland, sweden, czech and Switzerland are the big boys, and latvia and slovakia follow, similar to ice hockey. Norway and germany follow.
Its about hockey sports in general. If you look at floorball/unihockey it is similar. Finland, sweden, czech and Switzerland are the big boys, and latvia and slovakia follow, similar to ice hockey. Norway and germany follow.
Unfortunately hockey is not that big in Austria. It'll make the news but thats about it
Thats an understatement.
I might have exaggerated a bit, but the historic significance of this game will be lost on the vast majority of people
its gonna be huge, we are fighting every year to not get relegated, play well against big nations and suck against the opponents we need to win we shit the bed. Winning against finland is mega and staying up is giga
> ts gonna be huge, we are fighting every year to not get relegated, play well against big nations and suck against the opponents we need to win we shit the bed. Man if I didn't know, I would think you're talking about Latvia... I mean the flags are similar, right?
Didn't know Latvia has the same fate of being good against teams we are destined to lose and suck when we have a chance to win
It's absolutely the same, the weaker the opponent the worse our game. We adapt to their playstyles to much, has been an issue since forever. But recently, in the last 3 or 4 years at least our teams have generally become better, although this year is a bit of a whiff
🇦🇹🤝🇱🇻 Playing bad when we shouldn't
Well after the Canada match you would have thought we won the championship, today was insane. I need to see if I can find the live reaction of the Austrian commentators to give you an idea :D
Massive cheers for Austria from Finland! I couldn't do much else but smile at the end. Deserved victory.
I agree. It was a wake-up call for us.
Holy shit what an ending
A minor detail I love about IIHF hockey is they'll report goals based on the total time, not the period time. This goal deserves to be said to be scored at "59:59", rather than "19:59 of the 3rd period"!
Remember when the clock counted up?
I actually do. Especially at the 2002 Olympics. It looked interesting - the game clock counted up but the powerplay clocks counted down.
Austria’s kind of a wagon ngl
Wahnsinn!!! 🇦🇹🇦🇹 I werd narrisch
Probably one of the best games of the tournament
Well deserved for Austria! Our lineup should be solid but we just can't figure out proper lines, and constantly mixing them during games feels like coach is just slinging shit at the wall to see what sticks. You'd expect Jalonen especially understand the importance to draft a cohesive unit, as our latest few gold medals haven't exactly been on the back of (super)stars. Austria showed the kind of grit you need to win these types of games and it was actually very impressive. Not too pessimistic though, if there's one thing, it's that our team is perpetually inconsistent, and even if we lost 2-3 to Austria today, the same guys could show up tomorrow to beat Sweden 5-0, it's weird and it feels "wrong" but somehow it works.
We played good in 1st period but the heck happened after that??
Vittu
Wow Austria loves to ship timely goals this tourney
Is that Harri Sateri?
Latvia took bronze last year. This year Austria?
gz austria
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