Photo: Harriet Kallio

Early morning at Pori ice arena delivered a unique experience for the teams and spectators as well. Finland and Netherlands faced off at 8 AM, so among other things one thing to occur during the match was sunrise – although behind the clouds.
Day was brighter for Finns, who entertained the crowd with goals and took their third win in the tournament. Final score 16-0 for Finland means that the Dutch are still yet to score their first goal.

Finnish goalscoring was again distributed evenly. Only player to score a hat trick was Niklas Holopainen. Emil Fedorov scored two goals and assisted four. Jaakko Hyvönen, Kalle Lempinen, Tuukka Ässämäki and Ville Hämäläinen struck twice.

Swedes continued their strong tournament against Norway, even though Norwegian striker Felix Callander managed to net first goal against Sweden.
The reigning World champions had brillant start for the game, as Martin Landström finished first goal just after 45 seconds of play. After two minutes Swedes scored again, this time by William Arvidsson. Final score was 12-1 for Sweden after solid performance.
Swedish players man the top of the goalscorers. Christoffer Edlund is now leading scorer with 17 goals, while Arvidsson is second with 14 goals.

Men’s busy day was wrapped by USA and Hungary. Teams were chasing their first win after two losses.
USA had already showed some promise against Norway. On Wednesday Americans put out a strong performance and won the game 10-0. Match begun evenly contested, but first goal unleashed American team’s momentum. Lucas Philippenko scored opening goal from corner during 9th minute of play.
Most prolific player of the game was Michael Hosfield with two goals and two assists.