{"id":436260,"date":"2023-05-19T11:58:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T15:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=436260"},"modified":"2023-05-19T11:58:45","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T15:58:45","slug":"finland-smash-hungary-7-1-for-3rd-regulation-win","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/finland-smash-hungary-7-1-for-3rd-regulation-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Finland smash Hungary 7-1 for 3rd regulation win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finland trashed Hungary 7-1 at the 2023 IIHF World Championship on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/leijonat?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@leijonat<\/a> end the game in style with a 5-goal third period!<\/p>\n<p>\u270d\ufe0fGame recap: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WGyVOgWm7s\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/WGyVOgWm7s<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ABBEDUnfV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2ABBEDUnfV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; IIHF (@IIHFHockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IIHFHockey\/status\/1659583059526668288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nThe game was more or less in the balance in the first two periods, but the defending champions exploded with real menace in the third period, bagging 5 goals against helpless Hungarians.<\/p>\n<p>Mikko Lehtonen opened the scoring for the reigning champions at 12:52. The Finns doubled their lead in the second period power-play through Kaapo Kakko.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary reduced the deficit at 6:46 for 2-1. It looked as if a closely-fought match is shaping up.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Finns absolutely destroyed their opponent in the third period with goals from Atte Ohtamaa, Teemu Hartikainen, Kasperi Kapanen, Walterri Merela, Joel Armia rounding off the final score of 7-1.<\/p>\n<p>Mikko Rantanen finished the game with 3 assist, which puts him in the leadership for most assists in the tournament-7 in total, despite him not being able to score a goal yet.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary will be looking to bounce back from two heavy defeats on Sunday against Germany. They remain pointless after stunning France 3-2 in the opening game. Finland take on Austria on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland trashed Hungary 7-1 at the 2023 IIHF World Championship on Friday. \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddee @leijonat end the game in style with a 5-goal third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":436261,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19349,19344,19304,19090],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[19350,19346,19305],"acf":{"announce":"The Finns showed no mercy as they keep their 100% record","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/436260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436260"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=436260"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=436260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}