BEJING, Feb 10 match of the group stage of the Olympic tournament in Beijing. The group C meeting ended with a score of 6:2 (3:1, 1:1, 2:0) in favor of the Finns, whose hat-trick was scored by Sakari Manninen (11th, 30th and 41 minutes), Miro Aaltonen scored a double (19, 55) and Harri Pesonen (15) scored one goal. Juraj Slafkovsky scored twice against the Slovaks (6, 32). According to the official Twitter of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), Slafkovsky became the first hockey player since 1984 to become the author of the puck at the Olympics at the age of 17. At the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, 17-year-old American Eddie Olchik scored. In the next game of the Olympics, the Finns will play on Friday with the Latvians, and the Slovaks will meet with the Swedes on the same day.
