Game report BIKO - FinnSteve

Arena-Liiga last night:

BIKO - FinnSteve 6 - 8
1 - 0 Henri (who passed?)
2 - 1 Henri (who passed?)
3 - 2 Miika (Artur)
4 - 2 Henri (Topi)
5 - 4 Douwe (Topi)
6 - 7 Miika (Henri)


Our game, so to say. but we lost it. It was an enjoyable game to play for
(most of) us, may be the "problem" was that it was too enjoyable. We played
fairly well, but this applied only to FinnSteve's side of the rink. There we
were able to construct the game by passing and managed to have a decent
number of shots. At first, FS goalie had some difficulties, but he improved
his catch rate like a pig its running (translated Finnish proverbs are
hilarious, eh?) as the game progressed. On the other end of the rink,
however, defending was a bit sloppy at times resulting in too many goals for
FS. We just gave too much space and time for them in front of the goal. At
the end of the first, the game was tied 2-2, but we remained confident. In
the second period, after 4 -2 goal, our minds clearly shifted towards
scoring and we forgot the defending. Felt a bit sorry for Jani, who again
played a good game, but had to give in too often due to our lazy team
defence. This was especially true in the mid of the third, leading to 5-7
lead by FinnSteve. Miika still managed to make one goal but that was not
enough.

All in all I felt that we were overconfident of our victory, which then
backfired. Against other teams we have shown a bit different attitude. We
also went along to the walking pace of FS which we could have used in our
advantage. In the forthcoming game, it might be good to try to keep the team
defence in mind, especially the forwards should do this. It's likely that
the defenders will be, well, erm, *out there* more often than we have used
to lately.

Fun game to play, anyway! Thanks

-Jukka-