Intense USA vs Finland Hockey Game Highlights Discipline

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00:00But in the second period of play, Finland were the better team.

00:03Like you could see the momentum changing and you could see the frustration

00:08in the in the eyes and faces of the USA players.

00:12Right. You just sort of see like they were getting frustrated

00:16that they kept getting run.

00:18It wasn't getting called.

00:19Finland were playing on the edge like Sweden don't really play the body.

00:23Like the Finns play the body a lot more.

00:24They play a different style of hockey than Sweden does, you know.

00:28And so tonight's game has been very physical.

00:32But the USA have done a good job of not taking like dumb penalties.

00:36They haven't really been, you know, they had, you know,

00:39you would figure in past years, put it this way, USA hockey in past years,

00:42they've gone all hot headish, right?

00:44They don't like getting run by Finns.

00:46So they start doing stupid things back and end up in a penalty box.

00:49This USA team has shown a lot of discipline tonight

00:52because Finland is like they're pushing the envelope.

00:55Finland, they finally got called for a cross checking.

00:57But Finland got away with a couple of like pretty aggressive,

01:01pretty aggressive hats like in the corners and stuff

01:04that were like borderline boarding penalties.

01:07I think the refs have done a pretty good job.