GDT: May 24 • Semifinal • Czech Republic 0, Finland 3

[Tissotti]

3-0! Oh ****, Saukkonen sang...

He is trying a bit too much there.

Time for some champions league final next with so much better studio and commentator.

 

[Plural]

3-0! Oh ****, Saukkonen sang...

I lost my next nights sleep for that song.

 

[Jussi]

Troll mission continues. Has any team won the gold with 3 losses in the tournament?

 

[Miqqo]

Stop singing Saukkonen. No need to ruin everyone's night.

That was horrible

 

[Urbanskog]

Well, this truly is amusing

 

[Neinri]

I like this Finnish brand of hockey...always getting the opponent star players going bonkers.

Woohoo! We are in the finals!

I am just not sure if we have enough Komarovs to piss off all the russian stars

 

[Jussi]

That was horrible

My ears will never be the same...

 

[OscarsCards]

yeaaa!!! great job SUOMI, always my second favorite team. good luck in finals, go for gold!

 

[smi]

Stop singing Saukkonen. No need to ruin everyone's night.

Just when you think he couldn't be any worse..

Well, at least he didn't sing the Kendo Anthem

 

[joey16]

That Jokerit team is quite good
Pretty boring game.. went as I was afraid of and expected it kinda.. we totally deserve to lose, our defense just isn't good enough and offense today disappointed as well.. plus when there was a chance, Rinne got it covered
It's too bad, I really wanted to play the Russians in this tourney, it's always great game against them.. but maybe it's better as there would be a good chance we would get destroyed and it wouldn't be cool watching
Good luck Finns in the finals

 

[Padawan]

Well, Rinne was in fire tonight. We need him to keep this god mode tomorrow too and I think it's safe to say Finland won't change anything for tomorrow. Not in the way they played and not in the playing roster.

 

[Hasa92]

This is like the best Jokerit team ever.

 

[Juzmo]

3-0 Finland.

Congratulations. Really amazing this team which was called only a B- or even a C-team by many Finns in this board, managed to advance to the final!!

Many have said that this is our D-team (+Rinne).

 

[Cruor]

Jagr!!!

 

[Ilyeu]

Wow! Finland actually accomplished something.

 

[DrunkElkCZ]

Troll mission continues. Has any team won the gold with 3 losses in the tournament?

Czechs lost to team Norway and Switzerlandin in 2010.. that was pretty bad too

 

[Mehar]

Many have said that this is our D-team (+Rinne).

Like i said before- if you have a great goalie in Net, you can win with having a D team. Rooting for Finland to pull off the upset in the final. I do not know why the Finns were so down on their team a couple of days ago. Congrats Finland. Hope you get the GOLD!

 

[Kharkov]

Well, at least he didn't sing the Kendo Anthem

Thank god I didnt hear Saukkonen singing teräsbetoni, but Saukkonen singing Kendo Anthem would be interesting.

 

[Finnsane]

Like i said before- if you have a great goalie in Net, you can win with having a D team. Rooting for Finland to pull off the upset in the final. I do not know why the Finns were so down on their team a couple of days ago.

Cause this team was a goal or two away from the worst placement since 1955

 

[Neinri]

Like i said before- if you have a great goalie in Net, you can win with having a D team. Rooting for Finland to pull off the upset in the final. I do not know why the Finns were so down on their team a couple of days ago. Congrats Finland. Hope you get the GOLD!

Because we played rubbish and even Rinne wasnt at 100% And we are always down on our team

 

[Hemsky001]

I blame Zidlicky actually.

 

[joey16]

You Finns remind me so much of us in 2010.. team with pretty much no name underrated players, had a hard time getting to the quarterfinals, amazing goalie perforamance and finals against unbeated Russia.. lets hope you make it complete and get Gold as well

 

[teris]

Troll mission continues. Has any team won the gold with 3 losses in the tournament?

I think they said at some point that no team has ever won gold after losing their first two games.

 

[Hasa92]

Incredible on how we managed to get to the finals with this team, heck we've had better teams on paper at EHT.

Still, this will bring huge amounts of positive pr for the upcoming season for Jokerit in the KHL even if we won't win tomorrow. I'm glad that our NT is doing good, i would be glad if the first Finnish KHL would succeed but that doesn't mean that i still wouldn't be mad for Erkka for not picking his own club players over other players that are better and more suitable for the team, but still this is amazing.

 

[Dr Despair]

Not ancient, but older finnish. Which had a buttload more of germanic loan words.

Eh... Finnish as it is, is ancient compared to most European languages. Sorry for the OT. I simply cannot find the words for this game, this team, this weird tournament.

EDIT. I'm ecstatic of course. Just in case someone wondered.