The Finnish national team won the second victory at the home Hockey World Cup

MOSCOW, May 14. The Finnish national team defeated the Latvian team in the second round match of the group stage at the home ice hockey world championship. Group B meeting in Tampere ended with the score 2:1 (0:1, 1:0, 1:0). The winners scored goals from Sakari Manninen (31st minute) and Mikael Granlund (58th). The only puck of the Latvian national team was scored by Rudolf Balzers (9). In the group A match, the German national team beat the Slovakian team in Helsinki with a score of 2:1 (0:0, 2:1, 0:0). The Germans were scored by Matthias Plachta (22) and Leonard Pföderl (27). The Slovaks — Christian Pospisil (32). The Finns scored 6 points and single-handedly led group B, the Latvians (0) suffered their second defeat in the tournament and are the last. The Germans scored 3 points and moved up to the fourth position in group A, the Slovaks (3) are fifth.