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.
Taking players from national leagues, taking youngsters is an advantage too. They can play more together, train more as a team. The big names, Russia, Canada and also USA often have teams that have never trained as a whole team before the first practice ice in the tournament. They are not as coherent and rely more on individuals to do the job. So, if you do have a good player pool to pick from it can be tremendous advantage to have a team that really are a team. "Team, team, team. I love the word team. Think this is a picture of my family? No, it is the A Team!"....
First is always the first. So '95 is and will always be the most special. But yeah, being an underdog is always the great and it's even greater when success follows. So 2019 is a great year too.
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
This was awesome!! Yes, I did watch this like almost all the other finals we won, except in 1995, when I was a cheerleader for my American football team at our own game, which we won. A double victory for me. These hockey wins are all cherished memories!!
Best one out of the finnish goald medals because it was so unexpected, especially that time. Most years Anttila wouldn´t even have made the team, but he became a superstar in the last 3 games.
Ice hockey is a really cherished sport here. Finland is one of the very few countries where hockey is bigger than football - although football is also popular. This particular match was one of the best ever to watch in a pub. Canada was a really tough opponent and many of us considered Finland to be the underdog here. It doesn't really show in the clip, but the very capable, skillful and aggressive Canadian team attacked relentlessly in the end of the third period, with Finland fighting a desperate defensive game to retain the lead. The atmosphere was through the roof, with the valiant defense against the Canadian steam roller!
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 :)
The biggest thing why this victory was so big was, that all the media before the games toted them as "the worst team ever sent to the games". Only 2 NHL players in that team with 18 first timers. They also stamped all games passports before the first game, so they were not going to wait for anyone to be freed from the NHL. But once again Jukka Jalonen as the head coach showed, that he knew exactly what he was doing.
1995 champion was legend. Because we won first time ever. But we also won in sweden against sweden, who had already made golden victory helmets and a victory song for themselves in advance, because they were so sure of their future victory in advance. So this was a big moment for Finns.
Yes, icehockey is the most important sport in Finland. I have watched all Finns' games as long as I remember and gosh - what a thriller! Never forget: especially 1995 & 2019. I burst in tears after we won - Finnish team being rated "no chance whatsoever"- mindset from media before the tournament. Greetings 🇫🇮
There is an error in the title. It should be World Champion Final. World Cup = former Canada Cup which was played for the first time in 1976, then in 1981, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2004 and 2016.
The reason Canada didn't have a goalkeeper at the end, is that Canada changed him out for an extra player in hope to score a goal (or two in this case) with 6 players against 5 Fin players. That's a strategy a coach sometimes may use at the end of a game, when there are only few seconds or maybe even a minute or two left of the game. It's a risk, but sometimes it works.
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
Goalkeeper Kevin Lankinen at that time was playing in third highest level series of north america, "farm of the farm." Bit low for a world champion... Now he playes in NHL, like he deserves to.
Just for some context, Finland has won this tournament 4 times as of 2024. Canada has won it 28 times. This tournament is also not a best on best, since it occurs during the NHL playoffs, where a lot of the top countries best players are still playing. The last true best on best tournament between hockey nations was all the way back in 2016, at the World Cup of Hockey, where Canada went undefeated winning the gold. Early next year the NHL will host the Four Nations Cup, between the top four hockey nations - Canada, USA, Finland and Sweden (Russia exlcuded due to the invasion). The next best on best with all the top 16 nations will hopefully happen at the next Winter Olympics in 2026, making it the first time since 2014 that the best players are allowed to play for thier nations at the Olympics.
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..
The absolute top level in almost any sport is very small. In football there is only 8 world cup winning nations. In cricket it's only 5 and in basketball it's 7.
Still 2011 is the best for me. I was too young to be really exited about 95 and even if 2019 felt great, 2011 felt unreal. I was watching the game at a pub in Helsinki central and the whole place was shaking, because people was jumping and screaming. After the game everyone ran to the streets and to the tori to celebrate. There were so many people, that I could not get to home by taxi until 6 am and I had to be at work at 9 am..
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.
here is the reaction for it. ppl tend to gather around the market square "tori" after a win ua-cam.com/video/VqFGVcdNT2w/v-deo.html also "torilla tavataan" we'll meet at the square" is a common phrase
Just a small correction, this is the ice hockey world championships. Otherwise it wouldn't matter but there is/was actually a separate thing called the world cup of hockey :D
7:48 theres no goalkeeper because Canada was losing so they got rid off the goalkeeper to have an extra player. Very normal thing to do when its the 3rd round and your 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.
Ice Hockey is the most important sport in Finland by a massive margin, however, it is not the most played sport (it is very expensive and demanding) in Finland. Floorball and football easily out number hockey, but they are not held in as high regard as hockey Not only is Finland one of the best hockey countries in the World, but hockey is also extremely entertaining to watch. Floorball on the other hand has almost 0 viewership, even though it is the most popular sport in Finland and Finland is (tied with Sweden) the best floorball country in the World
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.
This is often the argument when a "bigger" team loses to a "smaller" team, because great defensive team play has been proven to be the key to win them. I remember team USA once saying Finland beat them with "slow grandpa hockey", which, when you think about it, made them look even worse, because not only did they lose, but they just lost to this said "slow grandpa hockey".
3:00 Yeah Hockey is the most famous sport here but it's not the national sport which is finnish baseball. And there's many young hockey players including me who play the sport
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.
@@BrianR. In 2019 World Champion tournament Team Finland did not have a single NHL player but Team Canada had only NHL players. It would be a similar surprise if an AHL team would win the Stanley Cup. In 1980 Winter Olympic games US won the gold medal with a team which had college players and they beat the Mighty Red Machine, Soviets.
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.
ehh the first one in '95 was definitely the most special.
Personally I would rank 2019 even above 1995.
Taking players from national leagues, taking youngsters is an advantage too. They can play more together, train more as a team. The big names, Russia, Canada and also USA often have teams that have never trained as a whole team before the first practice ice in the tournament. They are not as coherent and rely more on individuals to do the job. So, if you do have a good player pool to pick from it can be tremendous advantage to have a team that really are a team.
"Team, team, team. I love the word team. Think this is a picture of my family? No, it is the A Team!"....
Sorry but it was '95.
First is always the first. So '95 is and will always be the most special. But yeah, being an underdog is always the great and it's even greater when success follows. So 2019 is a great year too.
'Never Forget' - Leijonat 2019 (re-up)
From jutix HD channel. it tells a story right from the beginning.
Yessss this one is must watch
I concure
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
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
This was awesome!! Yes, I did watch this like almost all the other finals we won, except in 1995, when I was a cheerleader for my American football team at our own game, which we won. A double victory for me. These hockey wins are all cherished memories!!
Best one out of the finnish goald medals because it was so unexpected, especially that time. Most years Anttila wouldn´t even have made the team, but he became a superstar in the last 3 games.
Ice hockey is a really cherished sport here. Finland is one of the very few countries where hockey is bigger than football - although football is also popular.
This particular match was one of the best ever to watch in a pub. Canada was a really tough opponent and many of us considered Finland to be the underdog here. It doesn't really show in the clip, but the very capable, skillful and aggressive Canadian team attacked relentlessly in the end of the third period, with Finland fighting a desperate defensive game to retain the lead. The atmosphere was through the roof, with the valiant defense against the Canadian steam roller!
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 :)
FInland had no NHL players and still won. It's pretty impressive
The biggest thing why this victory was so big was, that all the media before the games toted them as "the worst team ever sent to the games". Only 2 NHL players in that team with 18 first timers. They also stamped all games passports before the first game, so they were not going to wait for anyone to be freed from the NHL. But once again Jukka Jalonen as the head coach showed, that he knew exactly what he was doing.
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.
1995 champion was legend. Because we won first time ever. But we also won in sweden against sweden, who had already made golden victory helmets and a victory song for themselves in advance, because they were so sure of their future victory in advance. So this was a big moment for Finns.
All people watching this game🎉
In Finland
Yes, icehockey is the most important sport in Finland.
I have watched all Finns' games as long as I remember and gosh - what a thriller!
Never forget: especially 1995 & 2019.
I burst in tears after we won - Finnish team being rated "no chance whatsoever"- mindset from media before the tournament.
Greetings 🇫🇮
Most impressive Gold Medal that Finland has won in hockey.
There is an error in the title. It should be World Champion Final. World Cup = former Canada Cup which was played for the first time in 1976, then in 1981, 1984, 1987, 1991, 1996, 2004 and 2016.
You should check WTF welcome to Finland video about the celebrations of winning in hockey :D
Every Finn was watching this.
The reason Canada didn't have a goalkeeper at the end, is that Canada changed him out for an extra player in hope to score a goal (or two in this case) with 6 players against 5 Fin players. That's a strategy a coach sometimes may use at the end of a game, when there are only few seconds or maybe even a minute or two left of the game. It's a risk, but sometimes it works.
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
Goalkeeper Kevin Lankinen at that time was playing in third highest level series of north america, "farm of the farm." Bit low for a world champion... Now he playes in NHL, like he deserves to.
ISNT He playing for NHL Vancouver ?
Hockey is as important to Finland as it is to Canada. It's our national sport as well.
at the end of the game the losing team usually pulls the goalie to get an extra player on the ice to improve the chances of scoring
Just for some context, Finland has won this tournament 4 times as of 2024. Canada has won it 28 times. This tournament is also not a best on best, since it occurs during the NHL playoffs, where a lot of the top countries best players are still playing. The last true best on best tournament between hockey nations was all the way back in 2016, at the World Cup of Hockey, where Canada went undefeated winning the gold. Early next year the NHL will host the Four Nations Cup, between the top four hockey nations - Canada, USA, Finland and Sweden (Russia exlcuded due to the invasion). The next best on best with all the top 16 nations will hopefully happen at the next Winter Olympics in 2026, making it the first time since 2014 that the best players are allowed to play for thier nations at the Olympics.
Canada got veyry good roster, Finland got like 4x fourthliners. but SISU vs. materia
18 playerrs was first timers in team
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..
The absolute top level in almost any sport is very small. In football there is only 8 world cup winning nations. In cricket it's only 5 and in basketball it's 7.
Still 2011 is the best for me. I was too young to be really exited about 95 and even if 2019 felt great, 2011 felt unreal. I was watching the game at a pub in Helsinki central and the whole place was shaking, because people was jumping and screaming. After the game everyone ran to the streets and to the tori to celebrate. There were so many people, that I could not get to home by taxi until 6 am and I had to be at work at 9 am..
Sm-liiga(Finnish hockey league) was considered 2nd or 3rd best league in the world in the 90's
Hockey is a big thing in Finland. Especially "Leijonat(Lions)" our national team but even bigger thing in Canada, i assume.
"Mörkö" Marko Anttila became a phenomenon
You can have an extra skater on ice if you put a goalie out.
Mert Fin...understand one thing : we are not good in football, but we can do hockey. That is our national sport and we are crazy about it.
Actually it's not the national sport
Our National Sport IS Finnish Baseball !
You should definitely watch the young lion’s world championships final which was against Russia!! It was such a thriller, an amazing game
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.
here is the reaction for it. ppl tend to gather around the market square "tori" after a win ua-cam.com/video/VqFGVcdNT2w/v-deo.html also "torilla tavataan" we'll meet at the square" is a common phrase
Just a small correction, this is the ice hockey world championships. Otherwise it wouldn't matter but there is/was actually a separate thing called the world cup of hockey :D
7:48 theres no goalkeeper because Canada was losing so they got rid off the goalkeeper to have an extra player. Very normal thing to do when its the 3rd round and your 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.
Ice Hockey is the most important sport in Finland by a massive margin, however, it is not the most played sport (it is very expensive and demanding) in Finland. Floorball and football easily out number hockey, but they are not held in as high regard as hockey
Not only is Finland one of the best hockey countries in the World, but hockey is also extremely entertaining to watch.
Floorball on the other hand has almost 0 viewership, even though it is the most popular sport in Finland and Finland is (tied with Sweden) the best floorball country in the World
Finnish Baseball has been as The National Sport - before Ice hockey !
Check the 1995 final game. That was something 😊
Ice Hockey is by far the most important sport in Finland. Just as in Canada.
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.
This is often the argument when a "bigger" team loses to a "smaller" team, because great defensive team play has been proven to be the key to win them.
I remember team USA once saying Finland beat them with "slow grandpa hockey", which, when you think about it, made them look even worse, because not only did they lose, but they just lost to this said "slow grandpa hockey".
Yeh ice hockey is big sport in here. Hockey is not. Hockey = Field Hockey
Not the World Cup.
It's the World Championship.
There's a difference.
A big one.
Yeah not best on best. There hasn't been a best on best tournament since 2016 which is insane.
3:00 Yeah Hockey is the most famous sport here but it's not the national sport which is finnish baseball. And there's many young hockey players including me who play the sport
The Sport that Finland IS Famous for is PESAPALLO !
@@holoholopainen1627 no we're not. Not many people know what it is. And i did mention it it's just called finnish baseball in english
@@olvioltsu5722 Have You watched UA-cam videos - of Finnish Baseball ? There are as many as wife carrying - and salmiakki tasting !
Finland, Sverige, Canada, ooyep after those russia USA... Vanuatu, Kenya
You mean Pesäpallo ?
Finland had in thestart, no NHL players. If i remember correct. And The tall player we call mörkö. Hard to translate. Maybe coplin...
Boogieman on mun mielestä mörkö englanniksi
You could say that the finish of the Finnish was very, Finnish.
Yes, ice hockey is absolutely biggest sport here in finland! Especially world champion competitions gathers this country together! :)
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.
For me 57 yo Finnish man, seen only one match in my life, it could be that. So wtf maybe some else. Who cares
You must DIE HARD - PESAPALLO FAN ?
This better versio
ua-cam.com/video/hHewyg8n8cU/v-deo.htmlsi=ip0Mrl1SEYBf5wy2
This is not World Cup!
This was a third tier Canadian team. That's the only reason they lost this particular game.
@@BrianR. In 2019 World Champion tournament Team Finland did not have a single NHL player but Team Canada had only NHL players. It would be a similar surprise if an AHL team would win the Stanley Cup. In 1980 Winter Olympic games US won the gold medal with a team which had college players and they beat the Mighty Red Machine, Soviets.
@@jaria4745 WRONG! It was a junior team, no NHL players. Some layers made the NHL later, but none on the team during the tournament.