Finns defeated Latvians in the starting match of the youth World Cup for hockey

Hockey players of the Finnish national team, composed of players no over 20 years old, defeated peers from Latvia in the starting match of the Youth World Cup in Ufa with a score of 5: 1 .

Mir Aalonen was noted with the victims with a understudy, Artturi Lehkonen, Marcus Granlund and Rasmus Ristolanen were still distinguished by once. The authorship of the only puck of the Latvians belongs to Nikolai Eliseev.

The Russian national team in the final match of the first game day in the capital of Bashkortostan at 18:00 Moscow time will cross the clubs with the team of Slovakia, and before that two more matches will be held: Germany - Canada and the Czech Republic - Sweden.

The tournament will take part in 10 teams, divided at the preliminary stage into two groups. The first includes the teams of Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Latvia. Matches will be held at the Sports Palace on Sorge Street. The second quintet will compose Russia, Canada, the USA, Germany and Slovakia, which will perform at Ufa Arena.