Team Sweden 2010 - Defending champs

calgarylen13

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Caz said:
EU's Swedish and Danish documents have to pass
an approval from gov officials in respective
countries. I guess that means they do not share
your opinion ;)

Its not an opinion, its a fact...go to an educated Dane in the streets of Denmark, or an educated Swede in the streets of Sweden (I can't speak for Norwegians as I have not been there, though i'd be pretty confident they'd say the same). They would tell you that Scandinavia are those three countries, its not a matter of opinion, its a matter of geography. Its just like if one was trying to say New Zealand is a part of Australia. If the European Union (as you have repeated) includes Finland as a part of Scandinavia then they need to do their geography homework. Then again, somehow for the European Union, Cyprus is more European than Turkey, despite the fact that Turkey is closer to Europe. Finland is a Nordic Country, its in the Nordic Communities of course, but its not a part of Scandinavia.

Even your Wikipedia agrees:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia
 

Paatos

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Maybe someone should make a sticky thread for this year's edition of the geography (and history) of northern Europe.

:banghead:
 

Caz

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Could it be that for a 150yrs the issue has been taught
differently than what history shows and now the education
is going back to the original meaning?

I mean, it is a political issue spiced with old fashioned
nationalism in all of the 4 Scandinavian countries, but it
seems that slowly but surely it is changing back to the
original region.

EU's SWE and DEN pages, along with politicians' and
scholars' statements in respective countries, are
suggesting that the official definition has started to
lean more and more towards 4 countries in Scandinavia.

Delicate issue. Well, at least our neighbours' official
statements do not classify Finns as a lower race anymore. :D
 

johnny_rudeboy

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Well when looking at a map Lappland (Finnish Lappland) is really part of the Scandinavian peninsula and Denmark isnt really so I am getting confused.
 

RorschachWJK

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Kalmar Union, anybody? :) Who wants to be part of the EU anyways.

Edit: to add my 2 cents: me thinks Finland is a part of Fennoscandia, not Scandinavia.
 
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Slime

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Finland? Without Selanne, Koivu, Lehtinen, Peltonen, Numminen etc? Switzerland will kick their asses.

Haha.

forwards:
Jussi Jokinen - Olli Jokinen - Tuomo Ruutu
Jesse Joensuu - Saku Koivu - Lauri Tukonen
Jere Lehtinen - Mikko Koivu - Antti Miettinen
roleplayers á la Ville Nieminen, Petteri Nokelainen, Bergenheim etc...

(Forward depth: P Lindgren, Filppula, Immonen, Korpikoski, Hahl, Salmelainen, N Kapanen, Hagman, Viuhkola, Kontiola, Rita...)

defense:
Pitkänen - Salo
Timonen - Lydman
Kukkonen, Väänänen, Pikkarainen, Lepistö, Berg, Malmivaara...

goalies:
Kari Lehtonen
Toivonen
(Kiprusoff)

Only Canada will have a clearly stronger roster than that in 2010.
 

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