Finland was the big favour in the game against Slovenia in the quarterfinals. Maybe the attitude was too convenient in the host teams locker room because Finland´s game was quite poor from the beginning.

Slovenia made four goals in the first period and Finland didn´t lead the game never before the penalty shots.

In the second period Finland made three goals and in the third Finland succeeded to tie the game. But that was a short fun. Only 27 seconds after Finland´s 4-4 goal Slovenia went to 5-4 lead. And before the end of the third period Slovenia was leading once again by two goals.

In the fourth period Slovenia only freezed the game. It was very near to made a perfect result, but in the second half of the last period Finland scored twice by Jonne Vaahtera and Mikko Liukkonen. That was enough to get to penalty shots, becaus both teams didn´t score in overtime.

There was no need for the five penalty shots by each team, because Slovenia´s four first players didn´t score. It was enough that Finland´s Karo Koivunen and Mikko Liukkonen scored though Timo Nurmberg didn´t.