If you think people are laughing now, you have no idea what it would be like if people saw a guy crying after his team lost in the playoffs, let alone the regular season.
GDT: Group H • May 11 • Finland 3, Canada 5
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If you think people are laughing now, you have no idea what it would be like if people saw a guy crying after his team lost in the playoffs, let alone the regular season.
You should be proud...they played well.
the only thing that i would add is that Canada may have waken up after that poor 1st period. You guys just had no answer to the Tavaras, and later in the game, the Getzlaf line. Nonetheless, a very competitive game.
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The 2nd and especially 3rd periods were the team Canada I think many of us were waiting for to show up. I hope they can keep it going as the tournament moves forward. No more stupid penalties and fix that abysmal PK.
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Come on, now. If the Finnish girls I met when I was in Europe were typical...Ms. Cuthbert isn't really too exciting of an idea in Finland...
my behalf they could stop this Skoda tournament (worldcup). every four years Hockey tournament where teams could have best rosters. Well we got olympics, but how long NHL players are able to join?
The Finnish view has not much to do if it was the national team or a club team, regular season or playoffs, but if the guy was drunk enough or not. After a number of beers (10 or 20 or whatever, depending on your tolerance) you are allowwed to cry for any reason. If you're sober, you don't cry. For any reason.
Some health problems, which he will be able to heal up during the summer brake. Nothing to worry about Granlund. Except for maybe in this tournament. It seemed to me that Pesonen was the main problem in the PIG-line. He lost the puck more often than Granlund.
Granlund is less than 180cm, doesn't have exceptional speed and is not that strong. As I've said in the Wild forum Granlund thread, a lot of people are overestimating his chances to be a force in the NHL. I hope I'm wrong though.
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That's what i was trying to say. Some guy will cry after CAN-FIN group game and the other guy will cry after SCF game 7.
I don't think it was just Pesonen. The whole line was less able to create offence than the #3 or #4 lines. Or at least that's how it seemed to me. That, combined with the poor defence, meant they were my least favourite line this game.
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I could imagine myself shed a few tears of joy over a big win in a hockey game, but after a tough loss I normally feel anger rather than sadness. The loss in the Olympic final in '06 was probably the toughest loss I have gone through as a fan, and I remember how surprisingly calm I was after the game, watching the winning ceremonies in a state of shock and disbelief rather than feeling sadness.
After Canada started playing it looked very similar to our games against Slovakia and Switzerland. SOG was 12:11 in second and 11:11 in third, with the two posts for Finland. The first period was an anomaly, Finland probably never has and never will again dominate like that against Canada.
The people who have followed the WCH tournaments for dozens of years, they know that in order to win the WCH u have to lose at least 1 game before the QF and u can't win twice against the same top 6 team - so both CAN and FIN have now lost 1 game (meaningless when the playoffs start) - if they should meet again in that final game, which I actually predict, the Finns have an edge 
Pesonen and Immonen, despite having NHL skill, have been proven to be too soft to play their game in the NHL, Granlund still has that question mark over his head. As a line, it's just set to fail against Canada and maybe even the US. We didn't play against either Canada or US last year so they weren't exposed back then.
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The people who have followed the WCH tournaments for dozens of years, they know that in order to win the WCH u have to lose at least 1 game before the QF and u can't win twice against the same top 6 team - so both CAN and FIN have now lost 1 game (meaningless when the playoffs start) - if they should meet again in that final game, which I actually predict, the Finns have an edge
Finland won Russia twice last year, there goes that theory down the toilet.
Now that i have cooled down + drank half litre of vodka.
Canada was just being Canada, they can only play their A game when there is worthy opponent, hats off to Canada better team won today!
Canada was just being Canada, they can only play their A game when there is worthy opponent, hats off to Canada better team won today!
That's just like i felt too right after '06 Olympics. But now when i watch those highlights, especially that heart-breaking Numminen interview, i can't stop but cry a little bit everytime. I was just saying, that people are different and react to things in different ways.
Finns really got crushed by that invidual skill of Canada and some horrible D. Good game, hope we meet in the finals.
No need to show disrespect on either side. After all our countries are among the very few where hockey is the most important sport.
No need to show disrespect on either side. After all our countries are among the very few where hockey is the most important sport.
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Keep telling yourself that. A real man would have cried with Teppo.
And Saarinen is the worst reporter ever.
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