Comments on: Finland vs. Russia tonight…

By: Rolex Watches

Rolex Watches — Tue, 14 Mar 2006 02:05:20 +0000

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

By: Kaljamaha

Kaljamaha — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 11:43:23 +0000

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

By: Angry of Anjalankoski

Angry of Anjalankoski — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:48:31 +0000

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

By: Angry of Anjalankoski

Angry of Anjalankoski — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:25:58 +0000

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

By: Garco

Garco — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:09:54 +0000

Sports Illustrated prediction: FINLAND!

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

By: Genied

Genied — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:56:46 +0000

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?

By: m

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:51:44 +0000

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

Great drama indeed!

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 08:45:37 +0000

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.

By: samwyse

samwyse — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:05:19 +0000

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

By: gopha

gopha — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:58:08 +0000

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.

By: A Finn

A Finn — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:53:24 +0000

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/

By: Johnnyboy

Johnnyboy — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 01:26:17 +0000

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.

By: A Finn

A Finn — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:56:23 +0000

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.

By: A Finn

A Finn — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:26:33 +0000

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 Ã¢â€šÂ¬ it may cost me?

By: sri

sri — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 23:53:33 +0000

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