Our physical play wore them down. Defensively, we didn't let them inside our house. I don't think you saw too many Finnish guys in the hash marks or below and if they did get there, they were punished.
We re-established our identity. That's the identity we wanted to have going in, was to be a physical, tough-nosed team and a junkyard dog mentality.
Steve's a warrior. I highly doubt he'll miss any practice time, let alone game time.
Those are, I won't say selfish, but maybe lazy penalties. Those penalties usually come back to bite you.
Now we get to experience it.
It's a short-tournament, so I think a lot of people read too much into one game. That U.S. team is still a great team. They're going to be a tough competitor if we see them again.
The big part of the day was beating the U.S., so the whole New Year's thing was a little anticlimactic.
You get an extra day of rest, more time to prepare against your opponent and obviously your opponent is going to be a lot more tired than you, so it's a pretty big deal.
A perfect example was my penalty at the end of the game. Going into that hit, I knew I was most likely going to get a penalty, but I'm going to take that hit every day of the week. We want to put fear in the other opponent.
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