Photo: Sofia Luosalo

Hostess nation Finland left everything on the ice, but United States were stronger in the Bronze medal match of Women’s tournament. Home crowd had eventually no chance to celebrate Finnish goals as USA took home bronze medals with final score 3-0.
Finnish goalkeeper Emilia Piekkari played terrific game, but on the 66th minute of play Americans opened scoring with Tamara Meuwissen’s goal. Match remained evenly contested to the final minutes. Ellen Larson scored second goal for United States in the last minute of regular playing time, and final score was netted by Allison Thunstrom in additional time.

Men’s Bronze medal match ended in Norwegian celebrations. United States prevented Norway from goalscoring for about half an hour, until Isac Jerner netted opening goal. Alexander Turtinen tied the game couple of minutes later, but the remaining of the first half was strong for Norway.
Norwegians took 4-1-lead in the half time by goals from Fredrik Nordby, Felix Callander and Jerner’s second. Felix Ljungberg and Tobias Mosfjell made the game 6-1, until USA bounced back with goals from Nolan Haney and Michael Fabie.
Norway held their defense for the remainder of the game. In the final minutes Fredrik Nordby and Tyler Myrmo finished the final score 8-3 for Norway.