Unfortunately, I don't have any video for this post and I've only seen it briefly once, but
Joni Pitkanen will miss Finland's quarterfinals match against
the winner of the Czech Republic v Latvia game, because of a horrible elbow that he gave to Sweden's Patric Hornqvist in the last round-robin game for Finland. Pitkanen was handed a major penalty and a game misconduct on the play for the hit to the head and the suspension was an automatic.
This missing game may have an effect on second-place Dale and fifth place James, and in such a tight race like this small pool is, it could be big. Finland hasn't been a terribly high-scoring team and their likely opponent, the Czechs, are very tight defensively, so I would think that a Finnish blowout is not in the cards. No one wants to miss a game though, especially if you have him in the pool.
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