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

[jepjepjoo]

Is the sport popular or the celebration part? Numbers indicate that it's the celebration part.

 

[Jussi]

Finnish hockey leagues are getting pathetic audience compared to swedish and germans for example.

Too many meaningless games and poor club management tends to show in attendances. Reduce the regular season to around 55 games or closer to 50 and that puts more focus on regular season.

 

[dorsku]

^^It's because of the celebration part, right @BusQuets ? Jesus some ppl are stupid

 

[Urbanskog]

I wouldn't say that club hockey is unpopular in Finland. It is that club hockey is popular, but the national team is insanely popular.

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Still can't believe how Mörkö scored 4 absolute clutch goals. I mean, not the first player that comes to mind. A small miracle that he was able to channel his inner Lemieux when it mattered .

Whole concept of 'Mörkö' changed the meaning. Future Finnish children won't fear Mörkö. They will hope he is under their beds.

Combining way too heavy drinking to hockey celebrations is blah. The mass celebrations themselves are incredibly awesome. Cmon fellow Finns, let your balls grow big enough so that you don't need to get way too drunk in order to be able to celebrate like crazy.

"tälläseltä se näyttää jälkeenpäin" -a random Finn in celebrations

Its ultimately irrelevant how many drunken, cheering Finns you may encounter at your parts of The World. They all know the results on the ice.

Their balls were evidently bigger in that, most important scene. All of them were sober.

 

[DoubleGold]

I hope we'll always remain this hockey crazed, even if we win 20 times in a row. I don't know how this victory could be topped however.

 

[torniojaws]

Some were asking about how popular hockey is in Finland. The gold medal game was watched by 3 million people. Well, big deal? Yes. That is almost 60 % of our population

It is equivalent of 21 million viewers in Canada. Or 195 million viewers in the US.

The most watched Stanley Cup final had 4 million viewers in the US. Red Wings - Flyers game 6 in 1997.

 

[DoubleGold]

Some were asking about how popular hockey is in Finland. The gold medal game was watched by 3 million people. Well, big deal? Yes. That is almost 60 % of our population

It is equivalent of 21 million viewers in Canada. Or 195 million viewers in the US.

The most watched Stanley Cup final had 4 million viewers in the US. Red Wings - Flyers game 6 in 1997.

The most watched TV broadcast in Canada was the 2010 Olympics gold medal game. 16.67 millions viewers (approximately 50% of the population).

I think Finland is the most hockey crazed nation on the planet.

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Radio commentators just compared it everything (when starting their shift) like going to job in a middle of the battle of Pelennor. Sauron was mentioned. They didn't make it apparent that they realized the undertones....

We have too much championships. Lol,

Invading Mordor... Love it!

They search negatives. Even better.

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Kevin Lankinen is evidently the man with biggest dick in Finland.

How about some real tests there at NA? Oooh, NHL maybe even?

 

[member 305909]

I guess Busquets is a jealous football-fan. Some of them can't stand hockey because theywish that football would grow here too as the most popular sport.

 

[DoubleGold]

I don't want to go to work tomorrow. I just want to party like this all year round

 

[Stubu]

A few go to a square in Stockholm and celebrate the team while listening to some aweful music, but, like everyone else, forgets about it the next day, remembering that the tournament will be held again in 11 months. Altough, a select few will try to use it as a testament that the swedes are the superior ”race” and will proudly fist bump themselves while having nationalistic thoughts.

This is sad. I feel for you, lillabror.

 

[ijuka]

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This isn't even accurate. Zohorna was on Pelicans and scored 16 goals for them in 18-19. Wish people who made meme stats like this at least got them right.

 

[Stubu]

This isn't even accurate. Zohorna was on Pelicans and scored 16 goals for them in 18-19. Wish people who made meme stats like this at least got them right.

That's not what "meme" means. Look up theme, rheme, meme in information theory. It doesn't mean "picture with a funny caption".

Sorry. The boss tells me no more jokes allowed. The "arki" stepping in.

 

[Stubu]

The most watched TV broadcast in Canada was the 2010 Olympics gold medal game. 16.67 millions viewers (approximately 50% of the population).

I think Finland is the most hockey crazed nation on the planet.

We have the most crazed hockey fans on the planet, as this forum can grumblingly testify, but I'm not sure how it averages out on the whole. (And we have 6m pop so we're hitting the same 50%, not 60% or something. Cannotdo deserves some credit for the invention.)

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

@Stubu:

I love you. You are equally annoyed how wrongly limited the meaning of term "meme" is taken these days. You know very well the genesis of the term by Richard Dawkins, made in the last chapter of his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

The idea was further developed in his 1982 book The Extended Phenotype.

Both of these books are on part of the better part of the humanity and human knowledge, and literature. Recommended for every Hockey fan.

Finns just reinforced their collective meme-plex with this win.

Arki meinaa käydä päälle, joo.

 

[Husqvarna]

No worries people ... coz we (Finland) can party all over Himalaya if we wanna - and oh boy do we wanna this time around!

Watch out, watch out ... for naked people in fountains around Finland: too bad too sad no female that often ...

 

[Outofbodyinhungary]

This isn't even accurate. Zohorna was on Pelicans and scored 16 goals for them in 18-19. Wish people who made meme stats like this at least got them right.

Thank you ijuka, very cool!

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

 

[BennsGonnaGetYou]

This is on repeat for the rest of the
evening!

 

[Stubu]

@Stubu:

I love you. You are equally annoyed how wrongly limited the meaning of term "meme" is taken these days. You know very well the genesis of the term by Richard Dawkins, made in the last chapter of his 1976 book The Selfish Gene.

The idea was further developed in his 1982 book The Extended Phenotype.

Both of these books are on part of the better part of the humanity and human knowledge, and literature. Recommended for every Hockey fan.

Finns just reinforced their collective meme-plex with this win.

Arki meinaa käydä päälle, joo.

I'll get those from the library if you'll tackle Buchler's Philosophical Writings of Peirce. Avy bet? (Let's not be hasty. 12 months minimum readtime.)

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

I'll get those from the library if you'll tackle Buchler's Philosophical Writings of Peirce. Avy bet? (Let's not be hasty. 12 months minimum readtime.)

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Wikipedia

'Lokki Joonatan' in Finnish.

Easier readings. Start from that. (Ei Vittuilua)

 

[Stubu]

I know that one; no need. (And please no Sophie's World esque stuff either.) Let's go for the hazmat, I can do it as long as it's not Stephen Hawkins.

I'll do Dawkins if you do Peirce/Buchler.

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

I'll do as long as you don't touch the Kierkegaard.