Reaction To Finland vs Canada (Ice Hockey World Cup Final 2019) 

This was the most special world championship from Finland, because everyone assumed that Finland would drop out early in the tournament, because Finland had 18 rookie players while the teams of other top countries were filled with NHL stars.

Yeah hockey is the biggest sport in Finland! You should watch the 2022 final as well, there are highlights with English-speaking commentators. Finland won both the Olympic gold and World Championship (on home ice) that year. Canada was down 3-1 so they pulled their goalie to have an extra player on the ice and try to score that way

No one was expecting nothing on that team when tournament started it had 18 first timers in World cups so it was such surprise when they won the gold.

'Never Forget' - Leijonat 2019 (re-up) From jutix HD channel. it tells a story right from the beginning.

For me the greatest Finnish hockey video is Janne Makkonen's "'Nothing Is Over' - Suomi MM 2011" Its story from the 2011 Ice hockey World cup when Finland won its 2nd gold. The story shows (in finnish) how in the past there has been huge upsets, dissapointments, media being very critical of the national team and how those times are still at the back of the head of ppl making doubts of winning it. At the end overcoming that all and winning :)

Brings tears to my eyes to watch this, thank you. Was a great time.

no goalkeeper because you get 1 extra player so its worth the gamble in the end if you are losing

Ice hockey is the most followed sport in Finland. There are some other sports as well that gather a lot of spectators, one being our national sport, pesäpallo (in English baseball but completely different sport). Ice hockey has become a sort of a national sport due to it's importance and popularity in Finland. But I believe everything started to change mentally in the 1988 winter olympics in Calgary when Finland got it's first medal in big tournaments winning silver. In 1991 we got our first World Championship medal and from then on, it has been more or less Finland going us underdogs to tournaments and beating everybody. This 2019 championship was a big surprise because the roster was "pretty nameless". So to speak, there are four line-up in the team. First two are the ones which should score a lot and last two are the kind of defensive line-ups. Finland was full of those 3-4 line-upers, but no real solid scorers or so. Marko Anttila "Mörkö (a spook)" who made two goals in the final against Canada, is just a big player that has played usually in the 3rd line-up, or even 4th. His role is just to be a physical threat to opponents best players. But suddenly he became a national hero making four important goals in the tournament. Also making the first two and a winning goal against Canada. At one point, we won both adult golds and junior golds (both U20 and U18). Back then IIHF, International Ice Hockey Foundation, ranked Finland to position #1 in world ranking. Leading Canada, USA, Russia and Sweden. Still while Finland was ranking #1, we have never lost the idea of being underdogs. Such a small nation, the hobby of ice hockey being very expensive, and since we are a small country, our capacity for quality players must be smaller than those of Canada, USA etc. But in the end, ice hockey is the only bigger sports that we have managed to take us as our own. But Finland has very potential players in e.g. basketball, but we are very much behind of the big countries of that kind of sports.

Team, that is loosing, usually takes their goalie out in the last minutes to have an extra player trying to score. Finland has won now four times (1995, 2011, 2019 and 2022). In ice hockey, there are practically only 6-7 potential world champions teams (Finland, Sweden, Czech, Slovakia, Russia, Canada and USA (although USA surprisingly has never won it). Nowadays Germany and Switzerland have come to challenge these 7 nations. Germany in the final 2023 and switzerland in 2024. However, it is rather small circle of nations in the top level..

Ice hockey is the #1 sport in in finland. If you want to see how crazy the country went after this win check out wtf-welcome to finland-ice hockey, it's a well made compilation of the celebrations shortly after sealing the win. It went.... Kinda wild. It's not family friendly. xD

The game before this one was even more memorable to me. Finland ate russians 1-0. The last minutes of that game ... russians claimed that Finns were playing "un" ice hockey. Poor babies.

here is the reaction for it. ppl tend to gather around the market square "tori" after a win ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VqFGVcdNT2w.html also "torilla tavataan" we'll meet at the square" is a common phrase

3:03 Yes, hockey is most important here, because we are good at it, although it's not our national sport. Loads of ice hockey arenas. Climate doesn't suite football, since they usually play European leagues between August and May, here they play league like April to October due to weather. We had never won Canada in finals before this. Definitely watch 2022 WC final also and 2022 Olympic final 😁 Although latter is a bit boring since it was during the pandemic restrictions in Beijing.

Finland had in thestart, no NHL players. If i remember correct. And The tall player we call mörkö. Hard to translate. Maybe coplin...

Hockey is the big deal in finland. I feel it is one of the reasons why the football aspect lags a bit, allthough getting better :) As here finland won, canada came second and russia won - think about the population differences where they train their players: Finland 5,5 million, canada 40 million and russia 145 million. And the first tackle was illegal, a player cant tackle feet or swing the club at feet. much like football, one has to play the buck, not the feet.