WC: Team Finland 2019 men's World Championships roster talk

[vanskillZ]

So yeah. This team won gold. Anttila scored some goals. That happened.

 

[SantosHalper]

We are th champions, we are the champions, champions of the world. WE are TEAM and hockey is our game.

Kiitos Leijonat!!!!

 

[sleb]

So yeah. This team won gold. Anttila scored some goals. That happened.

Things do happen. Funny, isn't it.

(Pesonen should've been the MVP)

 

[DoubleGold]

ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING WINS IN IIHF HISTORY. A TEAM OF "NOBODIES" BEAT ALL ODDS AND BECAME CHAMPIONS, THE STUFF OF LEGENDS! A GREAT DAY TO BE A FINN! SISUUUUU!

 

[Bronson]

Miracles happen sometimes....

f***ing A!

 

[jonlin]

Kalsarikännit saatana! Sisu, Sauna, Perkele. Huomenna torille!

 

[Nexon]

From now on, it might no longer be a given that a NHL player will even be able to make it to the roster.

Results, in the end, are what matter. People might call this a C or a D-level team, which it very well might be based on individual skill, but the sum of its parts was pretty close to an A.

If a NHL player hesitates to play for the national team, it might be a better choice to just get somebody who is actually looking forward to it. A lot of hungry guys in this team who had waited their whole life for such an opportunity, and they made the most of it.

Always felt like hockey was a game where morale and effort level played a huge part in the outcome (which is why you see the big hockey nations regularly being upset by teams that they have no business losing to). After a massively draining season, a lot of the NHL guys just don't have any gas in the tank.

Aho would be here if he could, so at least him should be lock to a team as he is very adaptable to Jalonen’s system I would say.

 

[Albatros]

Aho should always be the 1C when available, he's on par with Koivu as a NT performer.

 

[LOFIN]

Aho would be here if he could, so at least him should be lock to a team as he is very adaptable to Jalonen’s system I would say.

So would Rantanen, and lots of other guys.

 

[DoubleGold]

Hope Mörkö attends every year from now on.

 

[Machinehead]

23 Finnish guys could cure cancer, end all wars, and bring back Tupac if you told them it was a hockey tournament.

 

[Stubu]

 

[Erathian]

It has been a very long time since I last wrote a comment here. But I just need to congratulate you, team Finland! What an effort the whole tournament. You proved that the big names on the roster doesn't mean anything. Hats off!

It reminds me some of the Czech national teams from the past.

 

[FinPanda]

I remember reading previews about how Finland won't even make the quarterfinal.

Well no one believed in this team so good for them to prove all wrong.

Maybe we have finally learned to win the biggest games?

 

[FiLe]

Maybe we have finally learned to win the biggest games?

We've won 7 IIHF events in this ongoing decade, so I would say.

 

[chauron]

Have you seen the movie Moneyball? This roster is exactly that

 

[Nexon]

Guys, are there any videos of tori, or anywhere else people were celebrating after last whistle or on goals, I really love Finland way of celebrating and I have just found after game celebrations, thank you.

 

[Husqvarna]

Guys, are there any videos of tori, or anywhere else people were celebrating after last whistle or on goals, I really love Finland way of celebrating and I have just found after game celebrations, thank you.

It was honky dory Finland style celebrations on YLE-tv this very morning ... but on the net, I don't know.

 

[Morokolli]

Guys, are there any videos of tori, or anywhere else people were celebrating after last whistle or on goals, I really love Finland way of celebrating and I have just found after game celebrations, thank you.

 

[DoubleGold]

The party is just getting started folks!

 

[Rici]

Guys, are there any videos of tori, or anywhere else people were celebrating after last whistle or on goals, I really love Finland way of celebrating and I have just found after game celebrations, thank you.

That was a crazy party!!! I arrived back home like 4.00 in the morning. It was impossible to get a taxi. I was one of the lucky ones to fit in a bus. Bus driver turned on Mörkö music and the fully packed bus was dancing and singing so that the whole bus was moving

Here is a nice short video from the market place:

 

[Rici]

And the party continues tonight.

 

[DoubleGold]

Guys, are there any videos of tori, or anywhere else people were celebrating after last whistle or on goals, I really love Finland way of celebrating and I have just found after game celebrations, thank you.

Here's a video of a flight from Budapest to Helsinki where a choir started spontaneously singing Finlandia. Beautiful stuff.

Upea video! Kuoro lauloi Finlandian lentokoneessa Leijonien voiton kunniaksi: ”Aikamoinen tunnelma”

 

[karhukissa]

Have you seen the movie Moneyball? This roster is exactly that

Yeah, if they make a movie out of this team though, i'd suggest that George Clooney would play Jukka Jalonen instead of Brad Pitt.

 

[DoubleGold]

That was a crazy party!!! I arrived back home like 4.00 in the morning. It was impossible to get a taxi. I was one of the lucky ones to fit in a bus. Bus driver turned on Mörkö music and the fully packed bus was dancing and singing so that the whole bus was moving

Here is a nice short video from the market place:

Insane! Also lmao at the person hosting a christmas tree at 0:35 .