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GDT: Quarterfinal - May 23 - Finland vs Sweden

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johan f said:
Gronborg can kiss his NHL dream bye bye. Useless decisions in this tourny and he fails to fire up the players, fails doing changes. That he played Louie Eriksson thru the tourny should disqualify him from any further coaching.
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How much ice time did Loui play? It felt like he was on ice from start to end without a change :D
 
Seriously, was this the same Swedish coach Sweden had in the Olympics?

Why wasn't he fired after that?

And, congrats to Finland! Sisu.
 
Name Nameless said:
Seriously, was this the same Swedish coach Sweden had in the Olympics?

Why wasn't he fired after that?

And, congrats to Finland! Sisu.
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He pulled the same shit in the World Cup.
Trailing in the semifinal , EK got about the same icetime as Kronwall and Hjalmarsson, also rolling 4 lines and not juggling them oh man it was pathetic
 
Finnish fans are lousy winners. If they beat big brother they become very embarrassing. Looking at some comments i just laugh. And feel sorry for them kinda.

But the team beat the champs. The lions ate the Vikings this time. Lucky for Swedes they have more ships to send...
 
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PTmbp13 said:
Finnish fans are lousy winners. If they beat big brother they become very embarrassing. Looking at some comments i just laugh. And feel sorry for them kinda.

But the team beat the champs. The lions ate the Vikings this time. Lucky for Swedes they have more ships to send...
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Maybe it's something about the condescending way "big brother" talks about them.
I've studied Finlands history and found out there is no brotherly love between the countries.
Finland was nothing more than cannon fodder against Russia and other foreign wars during the Swedish reign.
As of today Finland is one of the best countries to live in despite of Swedish oppression 100 years ago.
 
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Stubu said:
99% sure Kakko belongs. I'd add Haula too, he'd improve the PK. Old timers Filppula and Koivu can pass the torch already... Borgstrom and Puljujarvi get camp invites at least but regardless I'd play Aho with Teravainen for their obvious chemistry. On the D I'd add Valimaki, maybe Niku, not sure of the others in NA.
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Aho and TT dont even play together on Hurricanes… I rather structure a team with 2 defensive lines and offensive ones. WHO of Rantanen, Laine, Granlund and TT do Kakko replace?
 
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we have nothing to look forward too. we had bad national team coaches since stone age and we will keep having it until the end of times. i will not watch anymore tre kronor games in my life, goodbye everyone.
 
Eye of Ra said:
we have nothing to look forward too. we had bad national team coaches since stone age and we will keep having it until the end of times. i will not watch anymore tre kronor games in my life, goodbye everyone.
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What are you talking about? Sweden has won more than it's fair share in international hockey. This loss is not the end of Swedish hockey.
Fairweather fan much?
 
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Slap said:
Maybe it's something about the condescending way "big brother" talks about them.
I've studied Finlands history and found out there is no brotherly love between the countries.
Finland was nothing more than cannon fodder against Russia and other foreign wars during the Swedish reign.
As of today Finland is one of the best countries to live in despite of Swedish oppression 100 years ago.
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In addition to a healthy competition between two neighboring countries. there is more brotherly love than between Sweden and Denmark and Sweden and Norway.

Hockey is big around here, so kicking sand on your neighbor's NHL filled team, always feels good
 
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PTmbp13 said:
Finnish fans are lousy winners. If they beat big brother they become very embarrassing. Looking at some comments i just laugh. And feel sorry for them kinda.

But the team beat the champs. The lions ate the Vikings this time. Lucky for Swedes they have more ships to send...
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You should see Swedes if they win. They are absolutely unbearable.
 
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Slap said:
Maybe it's something about the condescending way "big brother" talks about them.
I've studied Finlands history and found out there is no brotherly love between the countries.
Finland was nothing more than cannon fodder against Russia and other foreign wars during the Swedish reign.
As of today Finland is one of the best countries to live in despite of Swedish oppression 100 years ago.
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What are you talking about? There are lots of Finns living in Sweden and v.v. Of course there is some competition between neighbors but I wouldn't say that there is any bad blood. And if you have read Finnish history you would now that the Finns in the Swedish army at the time of the 30-year war was mainly cavalry (Hakkapeliterna) and are some what legendary. Btw I am a second generation Finn living in Sweden with a lot of Finnish friends here.

But history aside. This was one of the worst performances I have seen from a Swedish team. Finland did a great job and won most of the fights for the puck. They deserved the win 10 times over.
 
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This is the first time I felt less bad when we lost to Finland, their performance was just too good not to be rewarded...

and this years version of team Sweden never lifted, but I'm still grateful for all players that did attend ...

There always seems you have to have som bad result in between winning anyway so that's just the way it goes ..

Now suomenpoikka must tame the russian bear and make it sit in the Sauna and eat berries ...
 
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Slap said:
Maybe it's something about the condescending way "big brother" talks about them.
I've studied Finlands history and found out there is no brotherly love between the countries.
Finland was nothing more than cannon fodder against Russia and other foreign wars during the Swedish reign.
As of today Finland is one of the best countries to live in despite of Swedish oppression 100 years ago.
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That's way too simplified. Finnish farmers were treated the same as Swedish farmers, which compared to most other nations was quite good (mainly because the Swedish nobility was relatively weak). The farmers were not the legal property of the noble for example, which they were in many places. Treated fairly well except for the cannon fodder part, which was exactly the same for Swedish peasants. I mean sure, Finland weren't exactly given the best priests or competent aristocrats, but do you think the situation was any different for northern Sweden, for example? Nope.

Or what, you think Finnish nobles wouldn't have found some way to get into wars if you were independent? Yeah right. I guess they would've fired rainbows from their asses as well.

And when Indelningsverket was formally created during the 1600s, I would say Finnish farmers had it well, compared to the European counterparts.
 
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Slap said:
Maybe it's something about the condescending way "big brother" talks about them.
I've studied Finlands history and found out there is no brotherly love between the countries.
Finland was nothing more than cannon fodder against Russia and other foreign wars during the Swedish reign.
As of today Finland is one of the best countries to live in despite of Swedish oppression 100 years ago.
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Come on...you know that's not the case.

And today were enemies in hockey but otherwise very close.
 
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814 A.D.

This feels so good. However, using overtly nationalistic overtones (or undertones) will be always anachronistic in some sense. Populations have been intermingling with each others some millenias already... (same applies to eastern direction too).

Language. That is the area of the fiercest fight in our commonly shared nordic cultural sphere.

Swedes should've won this game easily. They didn't.
 
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Chimp said:
That's way too simplified. Finnish farmers were treated the same as Swedish farmers, which compared to most other nations was quite good (mainly because the Swedish nobility was relatively weak). The farmers were not the legal property of the noble for example, which they were in many places. Treated fairly well except for the cannon fodder part, which was exactly the same for Swedish peasants. I mean sure, Finland weren't exactly given the best priests or competent aristocrats, but do you think the situation was any different for northern Sweden, for example? Nope.

Or what, you think Finnish nobles wouldn't have found some way to get into wars if you were independent? Yeah right. I guess they would've fired rainbows from their asses as well.

And when Indelningsverket was formally created during the 1600s, I would say Finnish farmers had it well, compared to the European counterparts.
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The stuff Fleming and his likes pulled in Finland wouldn't have been accepted in western Sweden, no frigging way...
 
mattihp said:
The stuff Fleming and his likes pulled in Finland wouldn't have been accepted in western Sweden, no frigging way...
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Watch it dude! I am a descendant of Klaus Fleming :naughty:

However, there is also Finnish, German, Ukrainian, French and Georgian blood in my veins.
 
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