Pajari Disappointed, But Gunning For Bronze

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Riga Reign and Team Europe forward Mikka Pajari recently spoke to the media following a heart breaking overtime loss to Team Asia that will send Team Europe into the Bronze Medal game against Team World in the World Junior Championship. He had the following to say. 

 

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Yeah was tough man. We put it all out there. I really felt our top six controlled a lot of the play tonight we just couldn't beat Alexander Pepper. There was several chances in OT where I thought for sure we had it, but we just couldn't bury it and eventually they get a bounce their way....and thats it. I really felt like we deserved to win tonight, we played hard to win. But now we just gotta refocus, that is the struggle with these tournaments. No rests, no breaks. You wake up the next day and get focused and we want to make sure we do our countries proud and walk him with a Bronze medal. 

 

The top six of Europe controlled much of the play during the game as Europe demonstrated far more of a complete team game. Elias Dahlberg, Pajari and Vaydar Odinsson combined for 27 shots on net during the game. But it was the timely and clutch goal scoring of Kisshan Shan, who led all players with 13 shots on net during the game. However nobody on Asia had more than 5 shots otherwise, as it was the Kisshan Shan show. As Europe resets, the top six looks to not get upset again by another underdog Team World in the Bronze Medal game.