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We are the champions
by Puckarinen on 04/23/12 at 02:05 PM ET
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On May 20, in some European capital*, people will be storming the streets, bathing in the city’s fountains, and dressing up statues with their national team hockey sweaters. They’ll be driving up and down the streets, honking their horns, with their flags sticking out of the car windows, waving in the wind. People will be singing national anthems in unison, and they will be screaming the names of their hockey heroes to nobody in particular.
That’s what winning the hockey World Championship does to people.
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Tags: finland,
henrik+zetterberg,
mikko+koivu,
nicklas+lidstrom,
saku+koivu,
sweden,
teemu+selanne,
valtteri+filppula,
worlds
Teemu and Saku
by Puckarinen on 03/13/12 at 12:21 PM ET
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They’re actually almost the same age. Sure, Teemu’s four years older, but what’s four years when you’re 41 and 37? And yet, somehow Saku still seems like the kid, next to a veteran, even though they’re both veterans.
Last night the two veterans, two Finns united in Anaheim, both had their own historic night when Selänne - surely you knew Teemu was Selänne, and Saku was Koivu - scored his 22nd goal of the season, and 1399th point of his career, and grabbed the 19th place on the NHL’s all-time scoring list all to himself, leaving his idol and friend Jari Kurri behind him.
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Tags: jari+kurri,
saku+koivu,
teemu+selanne
Roll over Europe
by Puckarinen on 10/03/11 at 11:45 AM ET
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It’s the NHL week in Europe, that time of the year when the National Hockey League big machine rolls into Europe and gives hockey fans a taste of the big league/s.
This year, the NHL Premiere, and the training camps that precede the regular season openers, sees NHL teams play in Helsinki, Hamburg, Mannheim, Berlin, Bratislava, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Zug, and Prague. That’s four teams playing 11 games in Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Czech Republic.
And with the flags waving, and the people cheering, the obvious question is: could it be done all the time? Is there room for the Helsinki Fins or the Stockholm Swede? Or, more importantly, would the marketplace support an NHL team?
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Tags: columbus+blue+jackets,
detroit+red+wings,
ducks,
elitserien,
sabres,
saku+koivu,
sm-liiga,
teemu+selanne
