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24.2.2006

Finland vs. Russia tonight…

Tags: Uncategorized — Author: Phil @ 8:13 pm

Finland 4 – Russia 0 | Final!! Finland plays Sweden on Sunday for the gold!!


:-D

45 Comments »

  1. It’s funny because it’s true.

    Comment by Persson — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 9:11 pm

  2. hey, now i am lauri, even though i’m not. everything in the comment boxes was fine earlier…

    Comment by Lauri — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 9:57 pm

  3. Oh Christ, it could be Sweden-Finland in the finals.

    Comment by Phil — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 10:04 pm

  4. Phil, that just MIGHT be an incentive for them to try to win tonight… :)

    But it’s going to be tough.

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 10:09 pm

  5. Umm.. that makes it a LITTLE easier… :)

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 10:18 pm

  6. 1-0. This is going to be a hell of a game. I’m gonna have multiple heart attacks.

    Comment by Passer-by — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 10:46 pm

  7. Fucking MAGNIFICENT goal!

    Comment by Passer-by — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:11 pm

  8. Except it wasn’t passer-by at all…

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:12 pm

  9. Holy fuck! They are going to do this….

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:20 pm

  10. GOOOOOOAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3-0

    Comment by Phil — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:20 pm

  11. Slow down, guys… (I have this at 4-1 and 4-2 to win 67 euros)

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:22 pm

  12. Well, if they win now (and I’m still not convinced until 59.59), it will be because of that 5-on-3 survival. Take it to the bank.

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:28 pm

  13. Crap, finland lost to canadia in curling. I suppose silver is better than nothing.

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:30 pm

  14. I wish to state that that anonymous is not this anonymous… silver is a lot better than nothing, for a country with barely 1,000 curlers (except on women’s heads). Pity they didn’t play too well tonight, but so it goes.

    Comment by Anonymous — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:32 pm

  15. If Finland wins the gold in hockey, it’ll make up for all the other golds Finland didn’t win.

    Comment by Phil — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:33 pm

  16. God i just realised that it will be unbareable for me to visit my finnish relatives if Finland wins the finals. Since im Swedish and all that..

    Comment by Christian — Fri, Feb 24th, 2006 @ 11:43 pm

  17. Another ten minutes, and then I really don’t mind if the Russians get one.. :)

    Comment by Anonymous — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:02 am

  18. Phil, I think you could start to add a few more :D s under the picture soon… oh shit, Ruutu’s in trouble again…

    Comment by Anonymous — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:05 am

  19. OK. It’s a done deal. Let them score one now.

    Comment by Anonymous — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:16 am

  20. Success!!!!!

    Comment by Persson — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:18 am

  21. At moments like this, spare a thought for Kiprusoff…

    LOOOOOOOSER!!!!!!!!!

    Fine, fine perforamcne.

    Comment by Anonymous — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:19 am

  22. A much improved Team Finland with a well deserved win against Mother Russia. GGs!

    Comment by gopha — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:29 am

  23. I pre+empted your hockey story – finally!
    http://arktinenjenkki.blogspot.com/

    Comment by Jason Ward — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:33 am

  24. A nordic showdown awaits

    Hyvä Suomi

    Comment by Blah — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:39 am

  25. This. Is. Best. Hockey. Ever.

    Finland is just flying! Unbelievable game. And unbelievable final on Sunday. Oh God. This is just so great. Yeah!

    Comment by Passer-by — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 12:39 am

  26. HURRAH FOR FINLAND!
    I so look forward to beating Finland, it’s so true…. great performance tonight also!

    Comment by JG — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 1:05 am

  27. Actually, it’s quite hard to beat oneself…. I of course meant I so look forward to beating Sweden (too much beers during the game perhaps!!!) Especially living in Stockholm… can’t wait to see their faces!!

    Comment by JG — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 1:07 am

  28. Oh shit, I need to get to the local at noon to get a seat…

    Comment by Hank W. — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 1:22 am

  29. Grrrrreat display of Suomen sisu! Way 2 go!!!

    Comment by Whoever — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 1:26 am

  30. Yeeeeeeaaaaaah!!!!! Oh damn, Sundays game is already causeing me a heart attack.. Watching this game is going to be unbearable… But yet so great :) Can´t wait until Sunday. I hope Finland continues it´s great play.

    Comment by sri — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 1:53 am

  31. Eeeeeexcellent. This is going about as nicely as curling was… before today.

    Offtopic:
    Anysee (E30) Digi-box for computers, does it work, is it worth the about 70 € it may cost me?

    Comment by A Finn — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 2:26 am

  32. More offtopic…
    http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/oikea/id28716.html
    Does anyone have the animations and text the jive-Turkey used? The news clip didn’t show enough.

    Comment by A Finn — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 2:56 am

  33. It WILL be unbearable on Sunday! If possible, there is much more at stake here than the Olympic gold, at least for Finns.

    As we suffer from the Little Brother Syndrome, defeating Sweden at the Olympic final (especially when all the NHL players are in the tournament) would be the most magnificent thing in Finnish sports history. Then again, losing against the Swedes would be much worse than that legendary 5-6 loss in the 2003 World Championships… However, I’ve never seen Team Finland play with such confidence and stability during the whole tournament, so a catastrophe similar to the 5-6 loss is unlikely to happen.

    Comment by Johnnyboy — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 3:26 am

  34. Oh, some of the sites have apparently not yet been cleaned up.
    Don’t yet know wether they have viruses in ‘em, so I won’t post links to ‘em. well, I will but I’ll add some älälälälä in it:
    http://www.elvisäläläläläry.fi/takaälälälälähuone/

    Comment by A Finn — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 3:53 am

  35. Then again, losing against the Swedes would be much worse than that legendary 5-6 loss in the 2003 World Championships

    Heh, my wife has told me that story 1.5 million times.

    Comment by gopha — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 3:58 am

  36. None of this business anymore: http://tv.dojo.fi/ruotsalaista_vittuilua.jpg

    Comment by samwyse — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 5:05 am

  37. Then again, losing against the Swedes would be much worse than that legendary 5-6 loss in the 2003 World Championships

    That was the most fucked up game I ever witnessed.

    Comment by Phil — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 10:45 am

  38. http://www.nhl.com/olympics/2006/fin_rus_side022406.html

    Great drama indeed!

    Comment by m — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 1:51 pm

  39. Phil, where did you get the photo of Tarja Halonen writing sweden sucks? The quality is so bad, was the original photo better? Can you show the link to the original photo?

    Comment by Genied — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 7:56 pm

  40. Sports Illustrated prediction: FINLAND!

    http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/olympics/2006/writers/02/24/gold.game/

    Comment by Garco — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 10:09 pm

  41. Now THIS annoys the hell out of me:

    “Giant-killers Finland will bid to win their first Olympic ice hockey gold medal when they take on Scandinavian rivals Sweden in Sunday’s final.” (BBC pages)

    What’s this “giant-killers” crap? Don’t they do ANY research? Which team was the beaten finalist in the WCOH last year? Which team gave Canada a serious fright then on home turf (well, the smaller rink, anyway)? I mean, it’s like they assume the Finns are in the Germany-Switzerland-Ukraine class or something. That was YEARS ago. Anybody who knows anything at all about hockey, and I don’t profess to know much, knows that there’s a big six or so, each of whom can beat the other on any given day. Finland are not least among that half-dozen. It’s shoddy journalism, and it gets worse:

    “Both teams recorded easy semi-final wins, with Finland defeating Russia 4-0 and Sweden crushing world champions Czech Republic 7-3.”

    “Crushed”, eh? Big fucking deal. We stuffed them, too. AND they lost to the Swiss. No mention of the fact that the Russians utterly DESTROYED Sweden, no mention of the fact that the Finns disposed of Canada and the USA (well, the less said about that second win the better, but…), just this lame stuff about Finland being some kind of hockey-playing Andorra. Some fucking Cinderella story.

    Bunch of fucking retards. They should stick to writing about cricket.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/winter_sports/4750594.stm

    Comment by Angry of Anjalankoski — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 10:25 pm

  42. Hmmm.. then again, Foxsports isn’t much better. Some of the stuff in this pre-games preview of Group A is hilarious, especially the references to the Canadian “brain trust” that has “proven more than capable of putting together a team with all the pieces necessary to challenge for silverware, no matter the competition”. Nearly everyone and his mother has pointed out that the Canadians picked the wrong guys for the wrong tournament – and Gretky admitted as much.

    Read it and weep.

    http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/5321906

    The Group B preview’s pretty funny, too. Mind you, they got one thing right:

    “Team USA should clearly make it out of the preliminary stage, but a likely tough draw in the cross-over game, Feb. 22, could doom this squad at the quarterfinal hurdle.”

    Only thing is, they expected it would be Canada or the Czech who dumped them out. :)

    http://msn.foxsports.com/nhl/story/5329590

    Comment by Angry of Anjalankoski — Sat, Feb 25th, 2006 @ 10:48 pm

  43. The voting machine must have been made in Belarus. The damn thing doesn’t register my rightful and democratic vote.

    Comment by Kaljamaha — Sun, Feb 26th, 2006 @ 1:43 pm

  44. i like these kinda of articles…good site..keep it up

    Comment by Rolex Watches — Tue, Mar 14th, 2006 @ 4:05 am

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