It started on October 1st because of COVID restrictions impacting the ability of teams to allow fans. This is an anomaly year not the norm.
Bro the copium you are inhaling seems strong, and in that regard you barely even have more medals, and we have like a bunch of more golds than you do, please come up with a legit argument if you are gonna claim such things, your better than this AB13, learn to humble yourself for one and accept that Finland is a superior nation over you in Junior tournaments, AINEC.
Sweden statistically go further than Finland in most junior tournaments. It's not all about gold medals, or even medals. Junior tournaments are about producing good talent really. A good way to measure reliability of talent production is consistency. How far can you regularly go? How many games do you regularly win? I would argue that regularly winning groups and making medal games is a larger indicator of success than winning a few golds. We are talking about short tournaments heavily influenced by luck. I think consistency of performance is a better indicator of talent production at the junior level than anything else.
Like i said your spewing out pure copium, the bigger the stakes, the bigger the competition, wow Sweden is better getting medals nobody cares about congrats! And you think Finland's 9 Gold vs Sweden's 2 Gold is just a "few" and all luck? Comon your clowning yourself too hard now man.
Sweden have 3 but whatever. 4 if you count Hlinka. And more medals at all levels. Sweden have 12 more medals at the U18s+WJCs+Hlinka. Didn't say the gold difference was all luck either. I said that Sweden have been more impressive. It's not all about performing in finals. It's about making the semis regularly, winning groups, winning medals. Over simplified, Finland win golds or lose in the quarters (on a few occasions even in the group stages). Sweden usually win medals or at least play semis. Swedens dominance over Finland and 10 gold medal, 30+ medal advantage in senior tournaments are a result of consistently producing better talents every year. Consistency of performance is a better predictor of future success than being "clutch" or whatever.
Oh yeah i forgot that 1st Gold you guys won like 50 years ago, totally relevant! Funny how you feel the need to bring in senior's to make your lousy argument's look good, what really count's is how your team does when it matters the most, and in the WJC's, Sweden is lackluster in this regard, also keep in mind that Finland is 3x more successful than your Små Kronor with half the population.
If you think golds = success and silvers = faliure you could say that. I don’t think that way. Finland can’t claim to be more successful than Sweden in juniors when Sweden finish the tournament higher like 75% of the time.
Maybe back in the day, in the recent 10 years this isn't even the case lol, you're argument would be more credible if we all lived in the past, but in the present Finland is much more superior that Sweden in WJC hockey, all evidence suggests this, you are here bringing Senior medals and statistics from a long time ago to argue why Sweden is magically somehow better than Finland currently allthough you have not given any evidence to suggest it to be the case what, so , ever. Have a nice day
Last time you won it was 5 years ago. Finland won 4 years ago. Sure on u18 level USA has had a lot of success. On men's level, WCs or Olympics USA is never a favorite.
This year USA is the heavy favorite to win gold at the U18s.
Maybe not best on best because we have not had a chance for that. But WCs (where were plenty NHLers) golds 2011, 2019 and Olympic gold 2022 is more than USA have archieved for decades. Last time USA won WCs it was in 1960.
It's almost like we send our C team to the WC.
No matter which team you send, you always lose. Laughable to consider WCs an amateur tournament. But I can see your defense-mechanism taking action. No success means WCs don't mean anything.
So Finland has no best on best golds?
