Bronze Medal Game: Slovakia vs. Finland

[Henry Fool]

[HPLovecraft]

Demitra's played great, but all he's really proven is he plays with a lot more heart and determination in international play than he does with the Canucks in the NHL.

[vilzeh]

Originally Posted by jeremywilhelm

I can never be happy for Jokinen, his struggles pretty much destroyed the positive forward momentum that the Flames had at the beginning of the season. If he didn't suck so much ass, this team would have been in a better position and we probably wouldn't have had to trade away Phaneuf and Aulie.

Hahaha, sometimes I just can't take you clowns seriously.

Calgary Flames = Jarome Iginla.

If he struggles, Flames struggles, yes? so lets blame him, shall we?

[megatron]

Only caught the last 10 minutes of this game, but I'm so happy for Kipper, Hagman and Jokinen. They played great and I'm glad Kipper won a bronze -- glad Kurri had the courage to go back to him after he was pulled vs. the USA.

[browna]

Originally Posted by Henry Fool

Jokinen said after the game that it was his last game with the national team. He intends to concentrate on his NHL career and feels it's time for a younger generation to take over.

He has two olympic medals, five world championships medals, silver from the world cup, and a gold from world juniors. Being the player of the game was a nice way to end his career with Team Finland.

Just looking at the celebrations and all the comraderie on the ice after with Selanne, Koivus, Jokinen, Hagman and Peltonen, I think a lot of these guys wanted to go out like this.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Henry Fool

Is there an `odd-looking` gene in the Finnish gene-pool?

[Erick Estrada]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

Is there an `odd-looking` gene in the Finnish gene-pool?

For the small size of the country I'd say there's pretty good 'hockey' gene in the Finnish gene-pool.