GDT: Gold Medal Game - May 26 - Canada vs Finland

[Juzmo]

Nice to see Savinainen, Kuusela and Ojamäki get the gold.

 

[Edenjung]

Kalsarikännit with warm Champagne!

I like that too.



Man i like you, you all have the same mentality than me :;D

 

[kingsholygrail]

Well done, Finland. Well done!

 

[Rob]

Next time Canada would be wise to bring a goalie to the tournament.

Really? Murray was great.

 

[koyvoo]

can't be too upset with the result. sucks to lose but I love seeing how much this means to Finland.

I thought the guy was exaggerating in the first couple of pages saying that if Canada wins it won’t be a big deal, while in Finland they’d party in the streets all night. They’re really doing I think! Fun night in Finland.

 

[QnebO]

Beating the Swedes, the Russians, and now Canada? What a miraculous run for such an unheralded team. Well done Finland, you've done Finns and underdogs throughout the world proud.

18 first timers in this level. Liiga players and few khl. 0nhl goals in team this year, two nhlers.

This is our miracle on ice

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Sisu - Wikipedia

 

[Edenjung]

Im definately heating up the sauna but damn wish it would be saturday. Cant get too blasted need to wake up to work in 6 hours.

You can invite me over the next weekend.
I have free time.
But i have to fly to finland

 

[LateSleeper]

Love how this team outworked pretty much everyone.
Congrats Suomi!

This. They were sliding on their butts to get there so to speak. I love when underdogs grind their way through to victory.

 

[robertocarlos]

Jalonen going to NHL to teach how to coach ?

Winnipeg Jets are firing their coach around January. How does Jalonen like to coach Laine and ice fishing?

 

[Gormo]

Im not sure why Finland are considered underdogs, they beat us twice, Sweden, USSR, and even Great Britain.
You guys simply have a really good team and hockey program as far as I can tell and you should be proud of that.

 

[McFlyingV]

Wait what?
Canadas drop off is from say 500 points in NHL this season to 300, Finland is from 350 to 0..

Yes because Finland went from their A squad to B squad, while Canada went from their A squad to C squad. Most of these players wouldn't make Canada's 2nd Olympic team, and only maybe one or two of them would have been on Canada's olympic team (Stone and Murray likely as a backup/3rd string).

Anyways I was more just responding to that poster and not taking anything away from the Finns so I'd rather not comment on it anymore. Finns played a great game and deserved the gold after knocking off Russia and Canada. Congrats to them on a well deserved gold medal.

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

I like that too.



Man i like you, you all have the same mentality than me :;D

Could not put the Bottle cooling earlier, karma, superstition and kosmic balance and all that stuff

 

[Artorius Horus T]

Amazing players, amazing tournament, thank you all who followed these games.

 

[zx81]

Nevermind.

 

[aphyro]

Winnipeg Jets are firing their coach around January. How does Jalonen like to coach Laine and ice fishing?

No idea you should ask some finnish people in here!

 

[FinPanda]

This means everything for us. We can't even explain this.

 

[chauron]

Torilla tavataan! Let's see at the marketplace!

 

[Edenjung]

Could not put the Bottle cooling earlier, karma, superstition and kosmic balance and all that stuff

I am drinking room temperature Amstel so you might have it better ;D

 

[Chimpradamus]

 

[Quonis]

Congrats Finland.

2019 World Champions
2019 World Junior Champions
2019 Women's World Silver medallists

Also, Finland got absolutely robbed in that Women's final. That should have been another gold medal.

 

[Rob]

I thought the guy was exaggerating in the first couple of pages saying that if Canada wins it won’t be a big deal, while in Finland they’d party in the streets all night. They’re really doing I think! Fun night in Finland.

This is true. I watched the game at a bar and there was hardly anyone there.

According to the commentators over 50% of Finland watched their semi-final win over Russia.

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

Yes because Finland went from their A squad to B squad, while Canada went from their A squad to C squad. Most of these players wouldn't make Canada's 2nd Olympic team, and only maybe one or two of them would have been on Canada's olympic team (Stone and Murray likely as a backup/3rd string).

Anyways I was more just responding to that poster and not taking anything away from the Finns so I'd rather not comment on it anymore. Finns played a great game and deserved the gold after knocking off Russia and Canada. Congrats to them on a well deserved gold medal.

We actually had KHL players say no as well, so this was C team..

 

[HanSolo]

Depends on what country you live in. Looks pretty close to a tie to me. This one is every bit as special as Lake Placid was for the Yanks.

That's subjective experience. Not objective fact.

This game:

SM-Liga players beat a mishmash team of playoff eliminated NHLers.

Matt Murray is in net rather than who can realistically be identified as the best goalie in the world (to be analogous to the 1980 Soviet team having Tretiak)

This Canada team is not one that have played together for the better part of a decade and trampled over the international hockey world.

1980 Miracle on Ice

A group of college kids who never played one minute of professional hockey beat the most unstoppable international team in the Olympics on the way to the gold medal.



This win was a tremendous accomplishment but the level of difficulty and mismatch of talent isn't analogous.

 

[NYRFANMANI]

Why is the gold medal silver-looking and gold?