Finland´s icehockey

The long-awaited olympic games are now over and it´s time to make a conclusion of the icehockey games. This time there was certainly playing the best players of every country. In the coming years this might not be possible, because NHL is planning to continue their own games also during World Championship and Olympic games. That means that the best players are playing in NHL during important international games. Good player still come from leagues like KHL, Elitserien, SM-league etc... Finland started it games well by winning Belarus and Germany. Then something happened to the team during Sweden game. The game went very poorly. Finland´s headcoach Jukka Jalonen however managed to get the missing "team spirit" back and Finland won Czech Republic 2-0 in the semi-finals. After that nobody knows what happened to Finland in the odd game against USA. Finland lost 6-1 and the downward spiral started already after 2 minutes, when Miikka Kiprusoff passed straight to an USA player. After 12 minutes Finland was losing 6-0. You could sense that the team really wanted to win the bronze from Slovakia. It looked like there was different team in the ice compared to the USA game. You can really say that Finland won a bronze. After the disappointment people started to realize that bronze is not bad at all. Also Finnish women brought bronze home from Vancouver. It is very interesting to see who of the veteran players will continue playing at the next tournaments. Right now old players are ending their career and new talents are coming to the team. We will see what kind of team Jukka and the other coaches will choose to the World Championship games. Will new talents take the control of the team.We will see it soon...