Here is some more news on the US "olympic" hockey team playing matches in Finland. The Sauna Cup is a four team round robin tournament. The US boys finished 1 tie and 2 losses. I have not seen a box score for the US's final game which they lost to Russia 6-0. The US finished tied for 3rd with Finland on points but they had a better goal difference. Thanks again to Juha for posting these results to rec.sport.hockey. ---mg ****************************************************************** From: [log in to unmask] (Juha Koivisto) Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey Subject: SAUNA CUP: 8/30 Finland-USA Turku, Finland, Sunday 8/30/92 SAUNA CUP / Match number 1 Finland - USA 2-2 (0-1, 2-0, 0-1) 1. period: 6.38 2 min Kari Martikainen F 8.17 0-1 Derek Plante (Rich Brennan) (pp) 9.54 2 min Timo Peltomaa F 9.54 2 min John Lilley U 14.57 2 min Brett Hauer U 18.02 2 min Jason Zent U 2. period: 29.35 2 min Darby Hendrickson U 30.19 1-1 Mikko Makela (Waltteri Immonen) (pp) 31.40 2-1 Kari Martikainen (Rauli Raitanen) 3. period: 42.28 2-2 Jim Storm (David Sacco) 47.59 2 min Jan Moran U 50.51 2 min Pat Neaton U Penalties: Finland 2 x 2 min, USA 6 x 2 min Goalkeepers: Ari-Pekka Siekkinen F 2+2+5=9 Mike Dunham U 14+11+12=37 (out 39.58-40.00) Referees: Tor Hansen, Norway (Seppo Kuuri-Riutta - Jari Pykila) Attendance: 1 388 **************************************************************** From: [log in to unmask] (Juha Koivisto) Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey Subject: SAUNA CUP: 8/30 Russia-TCH Helsinki, Finland, Sunday 8/30/92 SAUNA CUP / Match number 2 Russia - Czechoslovakia 3-2 (0-1, 1-1, 2-0) 1. period: 0.42 2 min Karel Smid C 5.45 2 min Aleksandr Jashin R 6.11 2 min Dimitri Kvartalnov R 6.11 2 min Drahomir Kadlec C 6.44 0-1 Jiri Dobita (Roman Rysanek - Jan Caloun) (pp) 8.08 2 min Milos Holan C 8.08 2 min Branislav Janos C 8.50 2 min Ilja Bjakin R 11.08 2 min Jan Kaminski R 18.05 2 min Roman Oksjuta R 19.07 2+2+2 min Pavel Torgajev R 19.07 2+2+2 min Kadlec C 2. period: 26.06 1-1 German Titov (Dimitri Kvartalnov) 29.13 2 min Aleksandr Karpovtsev R 29.13 2 min Jiri Kucera C 29.27 2 min Aleksei Jashin R 39.24 1-2 Otakar Janecky (penalty shot) 40.00 2 min Janos C 3. period: 46.21 2 min Jiri Jonak C 48.14 2-2 Titov (Sergei Jashin - Kvartalnov) (pp) 49.34 2 min Smid C 52.49 3-2 Igor Korolev (Roman Oksjuta) 54.18 2 min Vjatsheslav Uvajev R 57.14 2 min Jan Alinc C 59.08 Czechoslovakia timeout Penalties: Russia 11 x 2 min, Czechoslovakia 12 x 2 min Goalkeepers: Andrei Trefilov V 11+11+6=28 Petr Briza T 11+6+14=31 (out 59.46-60.00) Referees: Kari Nieminen, Finland (Ilkka Hirvi - Jouni Lojander) Attendance: 2 235 **************************************************************** From: [log in to unmask] (Juha Koivisto) Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey Subject: SAUNA CUP: 8/31 TCH-USA Turku, Finland, Monday 8/31/92 Sauna Cup / Match number 3 Czechoslovakia - USA 6-1 (1-0, 3-0, 2-1) 1. period: 1.20 2 min Jan Varholik C 4.34 2 min Craig Darby U 10.07 2 min Jason Zent U 10.53 1-0 Jiri Kucera (Jiri Dolezal - Drahomir Kadlec) (pp) 12.02 2 min Jiri Dopita C 15.51 2 min Dolezal C 17.04 2 min Darby Hendrickson U 2. period: 21.14 2-0 Jan Caloun (Jan Varholik) 22.10 2 min Rich Brennan U 28.13 2 min Tomas Kucharcik C 29.16 3-0 Otakar Janecky (Dolezal) (sh) 29.55 2 min Karel Smid C 30.59 2 min Pat Neaton U 35.43 2 min Jiri Jonak C 39.07 4-0 Kucera (Milos Holan) 3. period: 42.46 2 min Storm U 45.00 2 min Roman Rysanek C 45.08 2 min Dopita C 45.08 2 min John Lilley U 47.37 5-0 Tomas Kucharcik (Branislav Janos) 50.03 6-0 Kadlec (Caloun) 50.54 2 min Caloun C 52.06 2 min Derek Plante U 56.07 2 min Adam Richard C 56.47 2 min Barry Richter U 57.45 6-1 Jim Storm (Ian Moran - Bryan Smolinski) (eq) 59.07 2 min Brennan U Penalties: Czechoslovakia 10 x 2 min, USA 10 x 2 min Saves: Orct Zdenek C 8+6+12=26 Mike Dunham U 18+10+(0)=28 (change 40.00) Parris Duffus U (0)+(0)+6=6 Referees: Tor Hansen, Norway (Harri Koskela - Mika Kottonen) Attendance: 523 ****************************************************************** From: [log in to unmask] (Juha Koivisto) Newsgroups: rec.sport.hockey Subject: SAUNA CUP: 9/1 Finland-Russia Helsinki, Finland, Tuesday 9/1/92 SAUNA CUP / Match number 4 Finland - Russia 0-7 (0-4, 0-0, 0-3) 1. period: 2.09 2 min Erik Hamalainen F 2.21 0-1 Sergei Petrenko (Aleksei Jashin - Jan Kaminski) (pp) 5.02 0-2 Aleksei Tkachuk 6.18 2 min Timo Saarikoski F 9.29 0-3 Kachuk (Aleksander Selivanov) 12.47 0-4 Aleksander Barkov (Selivanov - Tkachuk) 14.46 2 min Jarkko Varvio F 2. period: 22.26 2 min Darius Kasparaitis R 27.40 2 min German Titov R 29.00 2 min Ilja Bjakin R 31.54 2 min Kari Martikainen F 35.47 2 min Mika Alatalo F 3. period: 44.29 0-5 A. Jashin (Petrenko - Dimitri Filimonov) 45.23 2 min Martikainen F 47.25 2 min Sorokin R 51.20 2 min Niko Marttila F 53.35 0-6 Sergei Jashin (Aleksander Smirnov) 54.46 0-7 Pavel Torgajev (Igor Korolev - Sergei Sorokin) 57.26 2 min Sorokin R 58.11 2 min Waltteri Immonen F 59.59 2 min Janne Laukkanen F 59.59 2 min Korolev R Penalties: Finland 9 x 2 min, Russia 6 x 2 min Goalkeepers: Ari-Pekka Siekkinen F 13+8+10=31 Andrei Trefilov R 8+7+10=25 (change 54.29) Aleksei Chervjakov R (0)+(0)+3=3 Referees: Gerhard Muller (Jukka Koivu - Pekka Kivinen) Attendance: 2876 SAUNA CUP Standings after 9/1/92 G W T L GF-GA P Russia 2 2 0 0 10-2 4 Czechoslovakia 2 1 0 1 8-4 2 USA 2 0 1 1 3-8 1 Finland 2 0 1 1 2-9 1 *************************************************************** Juha Koivisto * Department of Information Technology [log in to unmask] * City of Tampere, Finland