Woohooo!! We won!!

Finland has just won the World Championship of ice hockey! Result was 6-1!
It's 0.30am here (Monday just begun) and everyone has gone mad! The cars keep honking and people outside are singing and celebrating.
I don't usually watch hockey (usually Finnish people loooove hockey), but this was a special occasion because we were playing against Sweden, and those are always the "no matter who wins as long as Sweden loses" things, we love them. And this happened to be a bit bigger match, it was going to be either gold or silver. Many of my friends told me earlier that they had taken Monday off of work just in case we win...

I lol'd when someone linked me a Swedish newspaper's website and their headline was just a huge Finnish swear word (perkele).

Very exciting for you . I remember when the Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last year. It was a BIG BIG Deal

Many of our national team's (Leijonat/ The Lions) players play in NHL as well.

Congrats! Big hockey fan myself and hoping the Saint John Sea Dogs can win tonight and bring home the Presidents Cup! They're QMJHL.

I'm glad your team won

I have a friend from Finland and while he was here, that is what I heard a lot about and this morning, I saw that on his facebook status!

Way to go Suomi!

BTW - have you heard of Signmark?

Originally Posted by My4LLMA

I'm glad your team won

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same feelings here!

Thanks everyone! In case someone here knows something about hockey I'll add a link here to a goal which one of our players made against Russia on Thursday, apparently it was somehow very cool (I wouldn't know..) and it was hyped so much all over the world that I'm sure it made the team very confident and helped them win: put the volume down, commentator goes crazy.. *eta* That player (Granlund) is going to play NHL Minnesota if I understood correctly.

Originally Posted by Kiwideus

BTW - have you heard of Signmark?

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Do you mean the rapper? If so, I've heard about him.

Oh my, what excitement in the announcer's voice!!! Couldn't understand a word of it, but you could tell he was blown away. I couldn't see the goal, it happenned so fast on the video. Again, I love hockey and that is pretty cool your team has won

Yay! Good for you - it's such a wonderful feeling when your country wins something like this
I can definitely imagine and understand the celebrations!
Last year, when Czech Republic won, there was a great big party in the middle of Praha

Congrats! People always go nuts when we win something hockey-related here, too. LOL at the Swedish headline, that's hilarious!

Originally Posted by NorthernGlow

Do you mean the rapper? If so, I've heard about him.

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Yep, thats the one I mean. I have just spent a good weekend with him the weekend before last.

Congratulations! One of my students is Finnish, and she was absolutely euphoric today.

Originally Posted by NorthernGlow

Thanks everyone!

In case someone here knows something about hockey I'll add a link here to a goal which one of our players made against Russia on Thursday, apparently it was somehow very cool (I wouldn't know..) and it was hyped so much all over the world that I'm sure it made the team very confident and helped them win: put the volume down, commentator goes crazy.. *eta* That player (Granlund) is going to play NHL Minnesota if I understood correctly.


Do you mean the rapper? If so, I've heard about him.

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I somehow missed this thread earlier, but Congrats!

I clicked on the link because I wanted to see the goal, but I got this:

"Mikael Granlund Amazing Goa..."
This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement from claimants"

Maybe I'll try googling to see if I can find the video, I'd really love to see it.

Lots of videos on Youtube. Here is one


That was one crazy goal!

Originally Posted by Misty8723

I somehow missed this thread earlier, but Congrats!

Maybe I'll try googling to see if I can find the video, I'd really love to see it.

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Thanks.

They had the video with english announcer too, but I couldn't find it. The goal also has it's own facebook fan group, it has over 200 000 fans.