GDT: Women's | Bronze Medal Game | Finland vs Russia | 2:40 AM

[SiberianHockey]

Surprisingly Russia was on par with Finland this time.
Still I'm not very optimistic with the fact we were the youngest team at the tournament. Don't see any of them progressing to the level of US/Canada anyway. Even Finland will be hard to beat anytime soon.
We need to make women hockey image to be as enticing as figure skating to girls.. there are a lot of girls in high-profile figure skating schools in Russia, but no girl's hockey schools around. Sure it's different kind of girls (<160cm girls needed for figure skating and >170cm for hockey), but some simple changes and Russia is a superpower at women's hockey. Though don't expect these changes in current situation - some chance was before Sochi, but we missed it.

 

[Oilers Propagandist]

Small country with high quality players. I am always left impressed with the fins.
Pretty awesome that i believe Canada and Finland are the only countries with Hockey as their national sport lol.

 

[W75]

Great achievement from the team! Wasn't an easy road.

 

[Kyndig]

Surprisingly Russia was on par with Finland this time.
Still I'm not very optimistic with the fact we were the youngest team at the tournament. Don't see any of them progressing to the level of US/Canada anyway. Even Finland will be hard to beat anytime soon.
We need to make women hockey image to be as enticing as figure skating to girls.. there are a lot of girls in high-profile figure skating schools in Russia, but no girl's hockey schools around. Sure it's different kind of girls (<160cm girls needed for figure skating and >170cm for hockey), but some simple changes and Russia is a superpower at women's hockey. Though don't expect these changes in current situation - some chance was before Sochi, but we missed it.

Russia did get better as the tournament went on but I still find it disappointing given their population. There's something like 80 million women in Russia and the best they can get is 4th? There's around 15 million more women than men in Russia, that alone is 3x the population of Finland. On the mens side they were dominant for a very long time, pretty inexcusable if you ask me even with a lot of them favoring figure skating.

Harshness aside they outperformed any expectations and I was cheering for them as they were the clear underdog. They nearly tied the game up twice but just missed the net both times.

 

[Tobias Kahun]

Small country with high quality players. I am always left impressed with the fins.
Pretty awesome that i believe Canada and Finland are the only countries with Hockey as their national sport lol.

Canada’s national sport is lacrosse isn’t it

 

[Mestaruus]

Canada’s national sport is lacrosse isn’t it

We all know what really is their national sport. Like Finnish official national sport is something called "Finnish baseball", what.

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

We all know what really is their national sport. Like Finnish official national sport is something called "Finnish baseball", what.

It's Pesäpallo. There is no sport like it, so why should we devalue it by saying it's 'Finnish baseball'?

 

[Do Make Say Think]

Canada’s national sport is lacrosse isn’t it

We have two: a summer national sport and a winter national sport.

 

[Mestaruus]

It's Pesäpallo. There is no sport like it, so why should we devalue it by saying it's 'Finnish baseball'?

That's the translation so what ever. Even has wiki page for it under that name.

 

[SantosHalper]

Our beautiful lady lions played one heck of a tournament and this medal was definitely deserved. So many great players in this team, but i have give shout out to Finland's mvp ultimate athlete Riikka Välilä. Zero mistakes in whole tournament, amazing player.

I hope she still plays for Finland in the next world championships, in home rink where team Finland plays in finals for a first time. Thid core deserves that one final game.