Finland Celebrations

[Bakayoko Ono]

About 100k fans celebrating in downtown Helsinki:

 

[VladNYC*]

Yup totally a meaningless tournament

This is only a fraction of the crowds that will be celebrating in Finland when the Canucks win the Stanley Cup.

 

[Account Terminated]

About 100k fans celebrating in downtown Helsinki:

That's amazing.

Well done, Finland.

 

[Zine]

About 100k fans celebrating in downtown Helsinki:

That is crazy.

Well done Suomi!!

 

[KaylaJ]

Awesome pictures. Thanks for sharing, except some of the naked guys

 

[Crazyhorse]

Did you know that they instituted that current cup for the tournament of... yep, you guessed it... 1996.

Wonder if it was a coincidence.

EDIT: Awesome celebrations. That's really alot of people!

 

[legendinblue]

Nice pictures. Finland loves their hockey.

 

[Phenomenon]

Koivu recieved the key, but Salmela overwhelmed the president during the song. I wonder if he remembers any of this.

Salmela, who was heavily drunk, looked like he was thinking: 'Oh - there is only one good looking mamacita in this party. I have to make my move before other guys.'

 

[orphan]

Yup totally a meaningless tournament

This is only a fraction of the crowds that will be celebrating in Finland when the Canucks win the Stanley Cup.

At least I will go into the night of Helsinki with my Linden jersey!

 

[llwyd]

At least I will go into the night of Helsinki with my Linden jersey!

Neither one of the Sedins would be a popular choice...

 

[JabbaJabba]

Wow, last night was amazing! It rained for like 2 minutes and after that there was a small rainbow in the horizon! Everybody were singing along and the feeling was awesome. Hundreds of flags were streaming in the air. Even the president came to say hello and the ceremony ended with fireworks but nobody wanted to left and the party continued. It was perfect! We should do this again next year .

Lol, at Salmela bearhugging the president . I wonder if he even remembers anything from last night. Well, good thing is that there is youtube so he can watch his adventures over and over again .

Thanks to Swedish fans, you have been classy!

 

[21]

Nice pictures. Finland loves their hockey.

Yes, definately, but it's not the whole truth.

Our two neighbour countries Finland and Norway are among the most nationalistic countries in the entire world, it's impressive.

We (Sweden) is a little bit more relaxed... Sweden is a global country with people from all over the world and huge global coorporations. We do know how to celebrate too though.

I guess the biggest official celebrations in Sweden was after soccer world championsships in the USA 1994.

and of course Olympic hockey gold medal in Turin 2006.

We also heavily celebrated boxing heavy weight world champion Ingemar Johansson 1959. The entire nation was following, old people are still remembering it. I couldn't join this celebration myself though. ;-)

Also almost the entire nation was following tennis legend Björn Borg and his legendary 5 straight Wimbledon wins.

Dominant skiing legend Ingemark Stenmark is also worth mentioning. Sometimes they even closed down schools when he was competing. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingemar_Stenmark

I can go on and on and on and on ;-)

We do feel happy for our brother countries Norway and Finland though, at least I am.

 

[21]

Neither one of the Sedins would be a popular choice...

We will crush you in the olympic games and you can count on it. ;-)

 

[Phenomenon]

More pictures from yesterday´s celebration.

 

[JabbaJabba]

I'm sorry Swedes, I just had to put this here.

 

[llwyd]

We will crush you in the olympic games and you can count on it. ;-)

Well, we'll see about that. Certainly your best team is much stronger on paper than ours. I find this local Sverige bashing quite silly, but there are long historical and cultural roots for it - quite the same dynamic exists between Ireland and England for example.

 

[Phenomenon]

According to Aftonbladet Andreas Jämtin from Team Sweden thinks that Mikko Koivu was acting disrespectfully towards the Swedish nation when he lifted the cup and made a circle to show it to the crowd.

The same newspaper also sees singing Swedish song "Den glider in" (which was the anthem in 1995, when Finland won its 1st championship) as a some kind of mocking towards Sweden. A little reminder: Finland has two official languages - Finnish and Swedish...

There are good losers and bad losers.

 

[Everlasting]

I'm sorry Swedes, I just had to put this here.

Its okay, we would have done the say thing

 

[21]

Well, we'll see about that. Certainly your best team is much stronger on paper than ours. I find this local Sverige bashing quite silly, but there are long historical and cultural roots for it - quite the same dynamic exists between Ireland and England for example.

As long as we do it with humor, it's ok? (the bashing part) ;-)

 

[21]

There are good losers and bad losers.

Well, Koivu doing a pirouette in front of the swedish players with the trophy (like a ballerina) and in the north parts of Sweden somebody lifting a Finnish flag and burning a Swedish flag?

Honestly, I don't think anything would ever surprise us about you Finns, this was totally expected.

Hopefully it gives us higher motivation beating you next time!

 

[Finnpin]

Jämtin is a tool, Swedes know it, Finns know it.

Haparanda came celebrating last time to Haaparanta so it was a pay back time... who punched first who knows...stupid anyways. But I guess they might have those "village fights" anyways without hockey...

100.000 celebrating with the team..this country really needed that victory!

Granlund is a rock star.

 

[Phenomenon]

Well, Koivu doing a pirouette in front of the swedish players with the trophy (like a ballerina) and in the north parts of Sweden somebody lifting a Finnish flag and burning a Swedish flag?

Burning flag is never acceptable and people in Tornio-Haaparanta area have a tendency of brawlin with each others, but it has nothing to do with Koivu. Koivu was showing the trophy to the crowd on the way to place where the rest of the team was waiting. For me this looks like nothing else than trying to create conspiracy theories about Finns hating the Swedes and Aftonbladet getting a sales peak with provocative tabloids.

Hockey fans and players in general think that Swedish team has a great future and we have a lot to learn from you how to grow up prospects. All this mocking is just a reaction against Aftonbladet´s tabloids and Swedish specialist analysis prior to the game.

 

[21]

Burning flag is never acceptable and people in Tornio-Haaparanta area have a tendency of brawlin with each others, but it has nothing to do with Koivu. Koivu was showing the trophy to the crowd on the way to place where the rest of the team was waiting. For me this looks like nothing else than trying to create conspiracy theories about Finns hating the Swedes and Aftonbladet getting a sales peak with provocative tabloids.

Hockey fans and players in general think that Swedish team has a great future and we have a lot to learn from you how to grow up prospects. All this mocking is just a reaction against Aftonbladet´s tabloids and Swedish specialist analysis prior to the game.

Peace and congratulations again!

But personally I think the mocking is pretty funny even if it sometimes goes to extremes, unfortunately.

Haha, the bad reputation of Aftonbladet is spreading all over the world, pretty funny. ,-)

 

[Phenomenon]

Nurminen´s "lacrosse goal" combined with commentary from Granlund´s one

 

[QnebO]

I've been reading aftonbladet with google translate this morning.. Swedes are so bittersweet now when they loose the Final themself? They first provocated before the final, then lost and now complain when they get it back lol this is awesome and gives the most out of this victory.. I see where we finns have gotten our bittersweetness in our hearts. It seems to be common gene with Swedes