Icehockey world championship in Germany

Originally Posted by Dowly

Aww, they just showed clips from the 1995 hockey when we won our first gold. We might've not won any after that but that was a perfect victory, against sweden, in sweden, swedes had their victory song all ready. But how did it end? Finnish Lions singing the song with gold medals around their necks. Beautiful.

I remember those games, I know some people are still remembering those games as THE moment for the Finnish team but I never thought of it as a 'proper' win. Sweden played really badly in the final, and there just wasn't much interest from the other big teams for that particular tournament. Finland had an ok team but it just didn't feel like a big victory.

1988 in Calgary felt like a lot bigger victory though, beating the Soviets in the final game and edging in front of Sweden to second place, Soviets took gold.

Edit. Congratz to the Germans for victory in their opening game, rare thing for them to beat USA.