Olympic Hockey: Niklas Hagman, Finland Take Care Of Belarus, 5-1

For a while, it seemed like Belarus might hang around, giving Finland a flashback of horrors to the 2002 Games. It was then that little Belarus, a former Soviet republic where a young girls’ strange exotic journey to Minsk took place, stunned Sweden in the quarterfinals of the Olympic tournament with a one goal victory.

An Olli Jokinen goal gave the Finns an early lead and Niklas Hagman scored late in the first to make it a two goal cushion. But just 21 seconds into the second, Sergei Kostitsyn of the Montreal Canadiens made the score 2-1. Momentum swing. Ut oh.