The commentator, Antero Mertaranta, is a legend in his own right. Probably every Finn knows his voice because he has been in the commentary box for each of Finland's championships. He just continues delivering!
That quote by Ville "Nemo" Nieminen before the Sweden game gives me chills every time, citing towards the 17 previous world champions and 8000 games of NHL experience: "Löytyy ketä löytyy, ehkä 9 kertaa 10 tämmösessä tilanteessa Ruotsi voittaa, mutta ei tänään." "They have who they have, maybe they win 9 out of 10 games in a situation like this. BUT NOT TODAY."
And i never forget 2022 ice hockey world championship and was played in Finland and Finland won the home games, so it was a memorable game and the whole year when it came to Olympic gold in the winter
Finns live through hockey. when Finland plays, 3.5 million people watch. We always cry and celebrate with the national team. When Finland plays, the flags are raised in the stands. Finland loves hockey🎉
The first world championship for finland happened in 1995 though. This was the first time that Finland had ever won the world championship in ice hockey. This win orginated the finnish saying of "torilla tavataan" (aka meet you in the market). Until the fall of soviet union the soviet hockey team had been on a streak of championships.
Sweden and Finland has been the biggest rivals for decades. well...finland defeated all their biggest rivals (Sweden, Russia and Canada) in a row during the playoffs, but Sweden is considered as number one rival. I think 2022 Finland and Canada made history by playing in the finals three times in a row.
And this applies to all team sports. We even have an inter-country track and field event, Finland vs. Sweden, every year, which is truly unique and is not organized anywhere else in the world.
Sweden is the biggest, oldest and dearest sport rival. In track and field there's an annual competition between the two countries, first time held in 1925. In Floorball the competition between the two countries might be the most intense at the moment. Going head to head on sport arenas with Russia is always a war reenactment. In Ice hockey Canada is always the number one team to beat. Beating all of them in tournament playoffs is obviously memorable. While none of the Finnish players were NHL players, also Marko Anttila's 203 cm appearance was subject of ridicule. In line with that he was nicknamed as Mörkö/Mörkö-Marko, which is The Groke in English. He himself prefers to be called as Stretchy though, which is his older nickname. After the championship Mörkö was in post stamps, T-shirts, in a song, sausages etc. And he was one of the key players in the winning national teams to come. The Groke is this character from The Moomins: "Evolution of The Groke".
Yeah, there's three truly great Finnish hockey feats. 2004 World Cup final loss against Canada, 2006 olympic silver against Sweden. Still can't talk about that, and this one. Finland won our first world championship in 1995 with a team that frankly should've won it; Saku Koivu, Jere Lehtinen, Janne Niinimaa etc. After that we got to the finals about seven times and lost every time. 2011 the drought finally ended and another gold was mined. Satisfyingly sweeping Sweden 6-1 in the final. There's of course the olympic bronzes of -98 and -14, but aside than denying Gretzky an Olympic medal, just nice bonuses 😁
That year was just crazy. I remember thinking that all our best players injured or missing. But I still had hope and love for finnish hockey and against all ods they won gold, its just amazing.
Whole Finland went crazy after the win. I remember when I went to the town center and random people ran to hug me and gave high fives. In a small town. :D
Finland-Sweden is our classic rivalry mach. I personally also dread matches against Russia since matches against them so often cause bigger injurys and more of them.
Finland used to be everybody else's second favourite but since Finland has become very good and successful at the sport I think nowadays Latvia is the plucky little underdog which everybody else supports. It used to be Finland but becoming good brings you enemies.
Hockey world cup and "Vappu" (the 1st of May celebration) are basically the starting point of summer in Finland. The biggest party was probably the first world cup win at 1995, when one hundred thousand fans entered to Helsinki Central market place "Kauppatori" within an hour after the match ended. It was THE party, because we won Sweden in the Final, in their home ice rink "Globen" at Stockholm. Then at 1995 also there was no "big" expectations for the team but there were major young talents in the team. 2019 this team was built from descent players of european hockey leagues but no real NHL stars were in the team.. And it always seems to be so, that if you fill your team with the "best stars", you don't get the "team" because the stars take the space in the rink and in the media and the pressure rises. However, if you build a team from good team players, put them in to right roles in the teams, you normally get better result. In the end, in Hockey there are 6-7 teams every year, who can win the world cup, that is Finland, Sweden, Czech, Russia, Usa, Canada and Slovakia. However, Switzerland and Germany have also get close to top level in recent years.. Both have also played in final match, no win yet, though.
World championships. Not World cup. World cup is a different tournament which is played irregularly and it has all the best players because the NHL is on a break when the World cup is on. Last time it was played back in 2016.
Mate! This is the same as Scotland (my favorite countrie In the world) winning England In semi finals. Cheers mate. Been In (hempden) Park with me mates from Annan. Love u scotts ❤
Definietly biggest rival from nordic countries is Sweden, we friends until hockey season starts :D it's always good times as long as Sweden loses to us atleast once during the championship.
No, one cant trip the other player over with his stick, you have to play the puck. It is equivalent of footballer kicking the other on their legs and not the ball :)
Finland's biggest Swedish printed newspaper had also an article that claimed this being the worst National Team ever. After the tournament the journalist who wrote that actually ate his words: ua-cam.com/video/rofsZLkpam8/v-deo.htmlsi=0veeozhiOx0UKBH-
Mörkö is Mörkö because he is 204cm tall or so. Pretty tall for icehockey player even there are biggers. U get too clumsy when u get height too much in sport of Ice-hockey.
I was on the edge of my seat watching this game, and afterwards the whole of Helsinki went into mass hysteria. People climbed traffic poles and plunged into the Havis Amanda fountain, or drove around honking their horns and waving flags. What a time to be alive it was.
I watched the final in a downstairs tv-room of the barracks at military. I swear when the game ended the whole brigade roared. I don't think any major shenanigans happened, everyone was vibing at their respective sleeping spaces fairly peacefully.
I'm pretty sure "Never Forget" regarding Finnish hockey was when we blew our 5-1 lead against Sweden in the finals back in 2003 and lost 5-6... Just seeing your video title hurt a bit, lol
I asked 6 people what "Never Forget" means to them and they all said '95.... Which is when we won our first championship, I just assumed that people won't forget the championships anyway.... Which is why I think 2003 is something we should never forget.
@@juhkust oh you're right it was the quarters... My bad (I guess I just shot myself into the foot about not forgetting...(In my defense I was 12 at the time))
Yes and No. It was the first yes. But Suomi had been second wery many times. So it felt like finland could never win. But it was still not unexpected that finland would reach the finale. The 2019 was more unexpected becouse team Finland was not expected to even reach tha playoffs. More people expected finland to have to go through the qualifying to not be dropped to B championship
We watched to whole tournament at home. Got some serious surprises, like first beating Kanada and then lose to Denmark and Germany. Beating Sweden was a big surprise but that game against Russia, thriller!! At the end, Russia was just throwing the puck to the goal over and over and Lankinen (the goalie) at one point had lost his stick. It was so scary! I was standing and screaming like grazy too scared to even blink.😅 Next see what was the after party like😂 ua-cam.com/video/24pySkBn7gM/v-deo.htmlsi=VH1mNMtvwIHEJXIZ
The commentator, Antero Mertaranta, is a legend in his own right. Probably every Finn knows his voice because he has been in the commentary box for each of Finland's championships. He just continues delivering!
Bitter sweet rivalry, Sweden & Finland. Goes both ways, meaning it is as meaningful for both of us.
Factss
Kakko, Luostarinen, Mikkola, Lankinen and probably many many others from this team too went on to NHL and still are playing there on a very high level
The Groke is the english name for moominvalleys character "Mörkö". Marko Anttilas nickname is Mörkö coz he is so big.. for wat I know..
And also has a consonant rhyming with "Marko".
Groke=boogeyman, freely translated.
should have translated boogeyman
That quote by Ville "Nemo" Nieminen before the Sweden game gives me chills every time, citing towards the 17 previous world champions and 8000 games of NHL experience:
"Löytyy ketä löytyy, ehkä 9 kertaa 10 tämmösessä tilanteessa Ruotsi voittaa, mutta ei tänään."
"They have who they have, maybe they win 9 out of 10 games in a situation like this. BUT NOT TODAY."
And i never forget 2022 ice hockey world championship and was played in Finland and Finland won the home games, so it was a memorable game and the whole year when it came to Olympic gold in the winter
Luostarinen and Mikkola won the Stanley Cup this summer with the Florida Panthers. Goalie Kevin Lankinen is now in Vancouver.
And Hakanpää plays for Toronto, Kiviranta for Colorado, Kakko for New York Rangers And Jokiharju for Buffalo.
I remember that so well. I went to the marketplace, literally. It's so great.
Finns live through hockey. when Finland plays, 3.5 million people watch. We always cry and celebrate with the national team. When Finland plays, the flags are raised in the stands. Finland loves hockey🎉
1995 Finland-Sweden final is the best! And almost the best is the thing that Finland a Swedish coach 🙂
YOU REACTED TO THIS MY LIFE IS COMPLETE
The first world championship for finland happened in 1995 though. This was the first time that Finland had ever won the world championship in ice hockey. This win orginated the finnish saying of "torilla tavataan" (aka meet you in the market). Until the fall of soviet union the soviet hockey team had been on a streak of championships.
Sweden and Finland has been the biggest rivals for decades. well...finland defeated all their biggest rivals (Sweden, Russia and Canada) in a row during the playoffs, but Sweden is considered as number one rival. I think 2022 Finland and Canada made history by playing in the finals three times in a row.
Mörkö is a bit more like boogeyman, but as explained below, it's translation from Moomin's character
Yeah definately biggest rivalry is vs Sweden, every win against them tastes better than vs other countries.
And this applies to all team sports. We even have an inter-country track and field event, Finland vs. Sweden, every year, which is truly unique and is not organized anywhere else in the world.
Sweden is the biggest, oldest and dearest sport rival. In track and field there's an annual competition between the two countries, first time held in 1925. In Floorball the competition between the two countries might be the most intense at the moment. Going head to head on sport arenas with Russia is always a war reenactment. In Ice hockey Canada is always the number one team to beat. Beating all of them in tournament playoffs is obviously memorable. While none of the Finnish players were NHL players, also Marko Anttila's 203 cm appearance was subject of ridicule. In line with that he was nicknamed as Mörkö/Mörkö-Marko, which is The Groke in English. He himself prefers to be called as Stretchy though, which is his older nickname. After the championship Mörkö was in post stamps, T-shirts, in a song, sausages etc. And he was one of the key players in the winning national teams to come. The Groke is this character from The Moomins: "Evolution of The Groke".
Yeah, there's three truly great Finnish hockey feats. 2004 World Cup final loss against Canada, 2006 olympic silver against Sweden. Still can't talk about that, and this one.
Finland won our first world championship in 1995 with a team that frankly should've won it; Saku Koivu, Jere Lehtinen, Janne Niinimaa etc. After that we got to the finals about seven times and lost every time.
2011 the drought finally ended and another gold was mined. Satisfyingly sweeping Sweden 6-1 in the final.
There's of course the olympic bronzes of -98 and -14, but aside than denying Gretzky an Olympic medal, just nice bonuses 😁
That one who scored a lot of decisive goals (Marko Anttila) is actually my father's little cousin
That year was just crazy. I remember thinking that all our best players injured or missing. But I still had hope and love for finnish hockey and against all ods they won gold, its just amazing.
this video gives me goosebumbs i remember this championship like yesterday
Whole Finland went crazy after the win. I remember when I went to the town center and random people ran to hug me and gave high fives. In a small town. :D
Still crying❤❤ Love that game💪👌
Finland-Sweden is our classic rivalry mach. I personally also dread matches against Russia since matches against them so often cause bigger injurys and more of them.
I love how the air force fighter jets always come to escort the champions home.
Finland used to be everybody else's second favourite but since Finland has become very good and successful at the sport I think nowadays Latvia is the plucky little underdog which everybody else supports. It used to be Finland but becoming good brings you enemies.
Finland and Sweden, maby the biggest rivals in hockey!
Hockey world cup and "Vappu" (the 1st of May celebration) are basically the starting point of summer in Finland. The biggest party was probably the first world cup win at 1995, when one hundred thousand fans entered to Helsinki Central market place "Kauppatori" within an hour after the match ended. It was THE party, because we won Sweden in the Final, in their home ice rink "Globen" at Stockholm. Then at 1995 also there was no "big" expectations for the team but there were major young talents in the team. 2019 this team was built from descent players of european hockey leagues but no real NHL stars were in the team.. And it always seems to be so, that if you fill your team with the "best stars", you don't get the "team" because the stars take the space in the rink and in the media and the pressure rises. However, if you build a team from good team players, put them in to right roles in the teams, you normally get better result. In the end, in Hockey there are 6-7 teams every year, who can win the world cup, that is Finland, Sweden, Czech, Russia, Usa, Canada and Slovakia. However, Switzerland and Germany have also get close to top level in recent years.. Both have also played in final match, no win yet, though.
World championships. Not World cup.
World cup is a different tournament which is played irregularly and it has all the best players because the NHL is on a break when the World cup is on. Last time it was played back in 2016.
@@TorZireael Semantics.. But thank you for being a besserwisser and correcting. Everyone else knew, what we are talking about.
@@daleynevantaus224 It's not semantics when those two are totally different tournaments.
Nothing Is Over - Suomi MM 2011 is also really good
8:45 that was a goal
Mate! This is the same as Scotland (my favorite countrie In the world) winning England In semi finals. Cheers mate.
Been In (hempden) Park with me mates from Annan. Love u scotts ❤
Definietly biggest rival from nordic countries is Sweden, we friends until hockey season starts :D it's always good times as long as Sweden loses to us atleast once during the championship.
They have some catching up to do. Have only won 4 world championship golds and 1 Olympic gold
The biggest rival for finland is sweden
Sweden is by far the biggest rival, but canada is really annoying too, because they're so good.
Sweden is the bigges rival of us
No, one cant trip the other player over with his stick, you have to play the puck. It is equivalent of footballer kicking the other on their legs and not the ball :)
Next: the aftermath
Finland's biggest Swedish printed newspaper had also an article that claimed this being the worst National Team ever. After the tournament the journalist who wrote that actually ate his words:
ua-cam.com/video/rofsZLkpam8/v-deo.htmlsi=0veeozhiOx0UKBH-
Mörkö. ❤
Mörkö is Mörkö because he is 204cm tall or so. Pretty tall for icehockey player even there are biggers. U get too clumsy when u get height too much in sport of Ice-hockey.
Sweden its the big rival
Did you watch 2011 world Championship? Finland win sweden 6-1 😊
I was on the edge of my seat watching this game, and afterwards the whole of Helsinki went into mass hysteria. People climbed traffic poles and plunged into the Havis Amanda fountain, or drove around honking their horns and waving flags. What a time to be alive it was.
I watched the final in a downstairs tv-room of the barracks at military. I swear when the game ended the whole brigade roared. I don't think any major shenanigans happened, everyone was vibing at their respective sleeping spaces fairly peacefully.
I'm pretty sure "Never Forget" regarding Finnish hockey was when we blew our 5-1 lead against Sweden in the finals back in 2003 and lost 5-6... Just seeing your video title hurt a bit, lol
I asked 6 people what "Never Forget" means to them and they all said '95.... Which is when we won our first championship, I just assumed that people won't forget the championships anyway.... Which is why I think 2003 is something we should never forget.
That wasn't the finals, was it? Quarters or semis, not sure which.
@@juhkust oh you're right it was the quarters... My bad (I guess I just shot myself into the foot about not forgetting...(In my defense I was 12 at the time))
Wtf "never forget 2019"? It's the '95 one that mattered. Though people who know what that was aren't the ones keeping noise on the internet.
Yes and No. It was the first yes. But Suomi had been second wery many times. So it felt like finland could never win. But it was still not unexpected that finland would reach the finale. The 2019 was more unexpected becouse team Finland was not expected to even reach tha playoffs. More people expected finland to have to go through the qualifying to not be dropped to B championship
We watched to whole tournament at home. Got some serious surprises, like first beating Kanada and then lose to Denmark and Germany. Beating Sweden was a big surprise but that game against Russia, thriller!! At the end, Russia was just throwing the puck to the goal over and over and Lankinen (the goalie) at one point had lost his stick. It was so scary! I was standing and screaming like grazy too scared to even blink.😅 Next see what was the after party like😂 ua-cam.com/video/24pySkBn7gM/v-deo.htmlsi=VH1mNMtvwIHEJXIZ