It would. Last I heard football is most popular among the youth but around 13-14 years the hockey teams start to discourage it due to high injury risk.
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It would. Last I heard football is most popular among the youth but around 13-14 years the hockey teams start to discourage it due to high injury risk.
Analysis from the TSN crew. Craig Button thinks Finland should be very thankful to Chicago for letting Harkijuuhuu play in this tournament:
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He was saying Jokiharju until he corrected himself 
Is the Harkijuuhuu some kind of an inside joke or did the guy just decide to come up with a better name for him 
Is the Harkijuuhuu some kind of an inside joke or did the guy just decide to come up with a better name for him I hope this will be remembered 20 years from now just like "Teppo Winnipeg" is still remembered. There are even clothes honoring that golden Anssi Kukkonen moment:
I hope somebody makes Blackhawks jerseys with the number 28 and "Harkiyoohoo" on the back.
First of all, you are wrong. Football (soccer) is much more popular in Finland. There are also several other fairly popular sports. Some figures in a Finnish language article for you:
Koripallobuumi kasvaa, harrastajamäärä silti kaukana salibandysta
Secondly, you conveniently ignore that US has 60 times the population...roughly.
In any case, silver is a great achievement and they did play very very well.
Congrats to Finland and also Team USA who played a great game and claimed their silver with class and dignity.
In Latvia it might be basketball nowadays. I'm from Finland so not quite sure.
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That's a wild assumption. Skill in one sport does not ensure skill in another.
Unlike running, one does not leave the womb expecting to be a competent, let alone skilled, skater.
Why can't they just say Henry Hockeyharju if the spelling is so hard.
Johnny Hockey (Gaudreau) would be some kind of a distant hockey cousin to him then.
Finnish and Estonian (and distant cousin Hungarian, and the real oddball Basque) are AFAIK the only non Indo-European languages in Europe, so it's something resembling "Finland" in pretty much every other lingo. Same way with other (original, non loan) words, hard to guess what Finns are saying
To simplify, Suomi means Finland in finnish
Hyvää Leijonaa! /RuotsiI can't be bothered checking, but the adult participation rate in the U.S., and Canada, is huge, a significant component of that 1/2 million+ in both countries. Try to find ice time for a game at your local rink in NA for an adult pickup game after the kids have gone to bed, and get back to me.
No idea how that compares to Russia, Sweden, Finland, etc. Euros, please inform me.
The best team lost, imho. That happens in hockey, a lot more than in other sports.
Full marks to the Finns for their victory. Well deserved.
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Very debatable but doesn't matter at the end of the day. Finland beat the US and Canada when it mattered, congrats to them they earned it
Hockey is the most popular sport by far, the reason it's not the most played is because of the expenses, if they were cheaper a lot of the players who play other sports would have picked hockey instead.
Soccer and floorball have a lot of amateur partitioners but nobody actually cares about floorball as a competetive sport, now soccer has a big fanbase but it's much, much, much smaller than hockeys. You can have a conversation about hockey with pretty much everyone to an extend, not so much with other sports, even with soccer.
