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Old 01-16-2015, 12:02 AM   #151
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Originally Posted by Drury18 View Post
If I'm not mistaken, English is widely taught as a second language in Finland. Most Finns born in 1980 or later I believe have been taught English for a number of years in school and many can speak it at a conversational level.

I know personally, I've spoken to a couple of Finnish hockey fans (from other boards) who were born and raised there, never lived in a English speaking country and if I didn't know they were Finnish, I wouldn't have guessed English was a second language by their conversational skills.
Ah, that would explain Kiprusoff.
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