We did it yesterday. Finland won the semi-final against the host country and favorite team Russia. The game was very intense, but we saw only few goals. The winning goal came suddenly at the last minutes of the first over-time by Finnish Mikko Koivu. Nowadays the over-time are played as sudden-death and the game ended there, 2-1 for Finland. Todays finals we’re facing Canada. Canada crushed Sweden 4-1 in the semi-finals and are very dangerous opponent as always.
IHWC.net - Home Ice Curse Lives: Koivu’s OT winner ousts Russia
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Russia just won the bronze match against Sweden. The game ended 3-1 for Russia even though Sweden was attacking aggressively. Shots on goal 33-20 to Sweden.
For Finland, finals often equal heartache
This article was very difficult to read. It tells about the history of Finland’s IHWC history. We’ve won the gold medal once in IHWC history, 1995 in Sweden. For the past 15 years we’ve been so close so many times. The article reminded me for all the disappointing moments when we’ve been so close but failed to win in the most important match of the tournament. We’ve usually played great hockey in the cnock-out stages, but the finals has always been difficult for all us.
“Telling Finnish fans to relax in this situation is like telling them never to take another sauna or telling Esa Tikkanen to shut up–it’s just not going to happen.”, Lucas Aykroyd says in the article.

The final starts 18:15 CET. You can watch the instructions how to watch the game over the internet in here for example.

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