GDT: Bronze Medal Game: Finland Vs Sweden | 9AM EST 3PM CET

[ijuka]

Embarrassing effort.

 

[aphyro]

Haha.
Well, your teams could really use their resilience and chippiness.
I have got to be the biggest Swede hockey fan outside of Sweden, and it is frustrating as hell watching the lack of desperation in close games, the lack of pressure on the pk. Sweden plays wonderful team hockey, and NHL coaches constantly say they are the most coachable and teamfirst, egoless guys.... but you need a lot more, ‘**** you!’ in your game

And Finland has plenty of that.

Doesnt matter i want team sweden to be just team Sweden and not some Team Nordic ! i think the finns feels the same!

 

[FinPanda]

Doesnt matter i want team sweden to be just team Sweden and not some Team Nordic ! i think the finns feels the same!

Lets invite Norway and Denmark too to the party

 

[Star Ocean]

Really wish we stopped playing soccer in this stupid country. We are wasting hockey talents.

 

[Dingo]

Sweden/Finland would win every tournament. They are already top teams on their own.

I would like it, for a real, solid rival against Canada at the best on best level. Russia has slipped, and never has enough d or goaltending, and the States is on the rise, but things get so damned pissy over here vs the USA. That, and I have always loved both Swedes and Finnish teams, and the combined population would still be less than half of Canada’s

 

[aphyro]

Lets invite Norway and Denmark too to the party

And Iceland while we are at it!

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Lets invite Norway and Denmark too to the party

And Iceland and Greenland, Faroese. Estonia too for keeping Scandinavian representation in bay.

 

[FinPanda]

And Iceland while we are at it!

Nah I'd left Iceland out because we need hockey talent

 

[Dingo]

Lets invite Norway and Denmark too to the party

Haha. Man, if you sent those wicked Norwegian athletes to established hockey schools in Sweden or Finland..... I mean, I think if hockey got a country a medal for each player instead of just one, that Norway would get good fast.

I like your joke, though.

 

[aphyro]

Nah I'd left Iceland out because we need hockey talent

Haha

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Combined team won't ever happen, and people of either country do not want that happen, but as a scenario it is still interesting.

Just scrap top 10-15 players of both country and look what you get out from it on paper. Of course it wouldn't be that simple, but combined team from combined hockey program would likely appear better than just sum of them.

Anyway, Congratz again. Sweden truly deserved this bronze, and it does hurt me much less than it normally would do, because of that abysmal Canada game.

 

[Master P]

Good job Sweden. I know it must have been hard to get up for this one.

 

[Durnberg]

Finns had a few good chances to tie it in the 3rd. Good game to watch

 

[member 305909]

Good job Sweden. I know it must have been hard to get up for this one.

Finnish hockey has also moved to a point that people don't care about these 3rd place finals. Why do they keep on forcing year after year the totally pointless game?

 

[Phil McKraken]

I didn't even watch this game. I've always felt that bronze games are only about who can overcome their disappointment the fastest, at best.

 

[FinPanda]

I didn't even watch this game. I've always felt that bronze games are only about who can overcome their disappointment the fastest, at best.

Yeah and still sometimes the better team doesn't win.

 

[ebergeist]

I wish Finland was still part of Sweden.

 

[EK47]

Swedish media be like: WOO-f***ING-HOO! A BRONZE OMG!!!!11!11 Sure, you can be happy about the overall performance in the tournament if you want, depending on your expectations ofcourse. But you sure as shit don't f***ing celebrate a bronze like you won the GMG that is absurd.

 

[FinPanda]

Swedish media be like: WOO-****ING-HOO! A BRONZE OMG!!!!11!11 Sure, you can be happy about the overall performance in the tournament if you want, depending on your expectations ofcourse. But you sure as **** don't ****ing celebrate a bronze like you won the GMG that is absurd.

I am sure Finnish media would do the same.

 

[EK47]

I am sure Finnish media would do the same.

Doesn't really make it better.

 

[FinPanda]

Doesn't really make it better.

True, but at least they can find something positive.

 

[EK47]

True, but at least they can find something positive.

The positives are; they performed better than the media thought they would. Sure a semi-final is an acceptable result. But considering Sweden has 8 medals in the WJC since 2008 it really isn't something you celebrate like it's a gold. Pardon my general negativity.

 

[FinPanda]

The positives are; they performed better than the media thought they would. Sure a semi-final is an acceptable result. But considering Sweden has 8 medals in the WJC since 2008 it really isn't something you celebrate like it's a gold.

Oh it was the same for Swedes? I thought Swedish media thought they are one of the favourites.

 

[EK47]

Oh it was the same for Swedes? I thought Swedish media thought they are one of the favourites.

Swedish media generally downplay Swedens chances, as an example they still have this overall picture of Russia like it's the undefeatable Sovjet monster it once was.

 

[FinPanda]

Swedish media generally downplay Swedens, they still have this overall picture of Russia like it's the undefeatable Sovjet monster it once was.

Its funny as Finnish media is the same for Finland. Of course Russia isn't undefeatable beast for us though.