…in the semi-final game of Vancouver olympics. During the first minutes of the game Finland’s goaltender made one of the biggest mistakes in the history of our ice hockey and while the whole team was shocked, USA scored five goals in six minutes. It was supposed to be a 1-0 game but it was game over when the match had hardly started.
Ice hockey is probably the most followed event of the winter olympics in Finland and a place in the gold medal game would have been a huge consolation after all the many big disappointments in other sports.
The national team is nicknamed leijonat (lions) because their jersey has the Finnish coat of arms that includes a lion. Quite an obvious choice of an animal for a nordic country, don’t you think?
nice link between the game and the picture. I feel for your country. that game was brutal! thanks for the awesome picture..