Olympics: Team Finland 2022

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I can't dig it Sweden for a million mile when they - Swedes- were nowhere to be seen as a natural born Finn when it mattered back in the (war) day... but I can dig their legions of (true) supporters when it comes to guitars and football today. Comprende.
 
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AIK:s Black Army was hard as nails back in the day ... almost like Mile End Mob (West Ham United).
Remember when they visited good ol' Rosenlundshallen in Jönköping back in their hey day (Black Army) and that I can tell ya. Kicked the toilets down an spray-painted them with that anarchy punk AIK symbols. That was a real eyeopener for us country JKPG boys.
 
Coach Jalonen just spoke to the press about Marko Anttila remaining in isolation. And man, he was ticked. Apparently, according to Team Finland's doctors he should be allowed to join the team, but the Chinese health officials are not listening. He had some choice words for them - I won't repeat it all here, but he finished by saying, "If you won't see me after this, they've probably grabbed me and taken me somewhere... and I'm not talking about the medical personnel."
 
Don't think there's a player as useless as Marko Anttila so it's actually a plus for the team if he can't play due to Covid. Not sure what Jalonen's obsession with him is all about but oh well.
 
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Don't think there's a player as useless as Marko Anttila so it's actually a plus for the team if he can't play due to Covid. Not sure what Jalonen's obsession with him is all about but oh well.
While I agree that Anttila isn't one of the most irreplaceable parts of the team, I'd like to think that Jalonen would spout similar fire for any of his players in a similar situation, 1C and 3rd goalie alike - because they're still fellow teammates and human beings.
 
I haven't heard of an olympic host as awful against free speech as this host yet. But it was expected. The same stopping of journalists and monitoring of participants happened last time around. Most other hosts tone it down during the competition..
 
I haven't heard of an olympic host as awful against free speech as this host yet. But it was expected. The same stopping of journalists and monitoring of participants happened last time around. Most other hosts tone it down during the competition..

Yea you would think they'd atleast try to be smooth about it
 
The two most recent posts aged like milk. Joonas Kemppainen has COVID and misses the olympics. Joonas Nättinen (Severstal Cherepovets) named as replacement. Also, Toni Rajala was exposed and won't travel with the rest of the team but will be allowed to join if he tests negative.

The silver lining is that Kemppainen was projected as an extra forward, so it's not a major blow. Also, it was announced who are the other five players besides Nättinen in the Finnish taxi squad: G Janne Juvonen (Jokerit), D Tommi Kivistö (Jokerit), D Oliwer Kaski (Avangard Omsk), F Veli-Matti Savinainen (Jokerit) and F Teemu Turunen (Jokerit).

To be fair milk lasts a few days, not a few minutes. Going forward they will say "well that aged like David o Sullivan's comments"

Only took me a few days to come up with this classic humourous response.
 
Olkinuora placed in COVID isolation. According to the team doctors, he's as healthy as Anttila is.

Also, Rajala has joined the team.
 
If you ask me they should pack their bags and go home. Its starting to be obvious that chinese officials are using some sord of an magic wand to find "sick" people and lock them to some concentration camps? Im glad that NHL said no to these games. Too bad others didnt have the b**** to do the same.
 
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I won't go into conspiracy theorist mode on this but how convenient that they take our #1 goalie and assumed captain out of all players. I understand the details about PCR values which Chinese seem necessary in that situation while most other countries don't. Anyways, luckily Säteri is a pretty good goalie and Anttila isn't probably THAT needed as we got other good players there that can replace him.
 
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I won't go into conspiracy theorist mode on this but how convenient that they take our #1 goalie and assumed captain out of all players. I understand the details about PCR values which Chinese seem necessary in that situation while most other countries don't. Anyways, luckily Säteri is a pretty good goalie and Anttila isn't probably THAT needed as we got other good players there that can replace him.
China has no chance either way in this tournament, who is pulling the strings? Russia and China are close..Putin..Redemption from Sochi..Finland and Nato getting closer..

In all seriousness, this is a shitshow. It's very strange indeed that they took our best goalie and team captain without reason. Jalonen is probably close to a mental breakdown right now.
 
The testing is strict in China and what quarantined player needs is CT value over 40 on two consecutive tests, or over 35 on three consecutive tests. Anttila gave one over 35 but the next was below that threshold. Anttila is borderline but Olkinuora will certainly miss the opening game as there's no time for him to clear the testing requirements.
 
Regarding conspiracy theories: While Anttila may be the captain, his role on ice is still a 4th line winger. Don't even need his leadership with Filppula and Komarov on board. Removing one of our top KHL scorers (one of GMH, Aaltonen, Ojamäki) from the equation would have been a far more effective way to hinder our chances. And we have an equally good goalie as Olkinuora in Säteri. As it was pointed out, China gains nothing by plucking random players out of the Finnish or any other team. And if we wanna blame the Russians, I'm sure they can read the KHL stat sheet.
 
It's kinda funny to me that we all knew China is a one party dictatorship that places undesirable minorities to concentration camps and we complain about hockey players put to 5 star hotel rooms in quarentine.

China does what it wants and does not care about what westerners think about it. Besides they seem to be knowing how to organize the tournament without the need to cancel it due to covid unlike they were in Edmonton with u20s.
 
we complain about hockey players put to 5 star hotel rooms in quarentine.
Well, according to Jalonen, they're serving the players cold spaghetti bolognese. I'm not sure if that's in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it should be.
 
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Well, according to Jalonen, they're serving the players cold spaghetti bolognese. I'm not sure if that's in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but it should be.

Yeah well it is deninitely not what the players are used to. Maybe not the 5 star service, but better than in a prison. I don't think they intentionally freeze the food before serving it tho.
 

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