Tampere (from our newsletter) – “It is important to find motivation right after the match so that it does not happen again. Now we are thinking of bronze.”
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What made Canada better?
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Hard to say, I don’t know at all. Canada didn’t do anything, we gave it to her. I have no idea what happened in the second period. We completely stopped playing our game and we couldn’t get out of it.
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The turning point came when Canada used power play for your exclusion. Has frustration accumulated in you against Dubois?
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He put an elbow in my head. Then I only went for hockey, the boy is two meters tall, I just poked him lightly and he fell on his ass like … I think he simulated it. Of course it’s stupid of me, my fault, but how the judges judged the fouls in the second period … I don’t know.
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I guess a lot of goals collected at the end of the first period, right?
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Yes. The goal to the locker room is not pleasant, we could go to the cabin at 1: 0 or 2: 0, because we had a chance. Unfortunately, we did not manage to score the second goal, they put them in the locker room, which will always encourage the opponent. It’s a pity we didn’t hold those 30 seconds.
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You wanted to improve in the tournament, but now it’s a big hit.
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We wanted to be better and better, which we didn’t do today. We stopped playing completely. Canada is punishing it and it will be difficult to get you back into the game. Their players have hockey skills, they take advantage of great opportunities. At 1: 1, they immediately gave us two goals from overtime. These were unnecessary fouls, on the other hand, we did not manage to prevent the weakening. It put them on horseback. We haven’t been able to get back to our game since. It is sad.
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What was the mood in the locker room after the second period?
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We all believed that we would take the weakening that the third third started and score one goal. If we give it, anything can happen. But in the first five minutes we got to 1: 5.
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You don’t score five-on-five goals, you’ve only scored one in the last four games.
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I agree. Today it was so accumulated that unfortunately we needed goals in the game five to five. Chances were, we had an escape twice, a raid once. We didn’t give it, it freezes, it’s three goals. Damage.
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You rode a penalty shootout. Why didn’t the raid work?
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That must be the goal, of course. I’m disappointed with my performance today. It’s hockey. Sometimes there is a day that happens. It is important to find motivation right after the match so that it does not happen again.
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So what will help in Sunday’s bronze medal match?
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Sleep and think of bronze.
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