Italian Reacts To Finland Ice Hockey World Champions 2019

[@ileee1]

this was a team no one expected nothing from. This was complitely insane.

[@rAutx666]

As a Finn this video makes me cry tears of happines everytime I watch it. Your reactions and beautiful words made me cry even more, thank you.

[@mauronicolo89]

💚💚💚

[@tonisuomilqmmi7116]

ty to be fair thou all finish ppl are alwayes behind team if we thing it suck we try to cheer them to suckess coz thats kinda finisinh nature

[@tonisuomilqmmi7116]

well hockey fans atlest sorry forgot to say it =) and we gopt sweden supot also what i thing maked huge differed in team morale

[@Stubhose]

Mitä paskaa sä oikee lässytät 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@peeta700]

Same here❤

[@1andonlyMiro]

Marko Anttila (Groke) had just 11 goals in the entire season with his club. He is NOT a goal scorer. Not by any stretch. But in international games the man has been incredibly clutch. It's insane.

[@juhalaitinen4509]

It was fun to see how you got in to the vibes also, even if you're not familiar to ice-hockey. Such a moments. Finland is in need of something similar again this spring!

[@munamiesification]

Thank you from Finland. This was pleasure to watch and listening.

[@DarthJosku]

If you are interested there is video called "Nothing is over Suomi MM 2011" it shows best parts of Finlands second championship. Most iconic goal in Finnish hockey history happened in that tounament and Finland won after 16 years against theyre biggest rival Sweden that had given Finland loses over the years.

[@Tombbbaa]

as a Finn, it's fun and interesting to watch your reactions to the games and the goals. Nice video keep going buddy!

[@pietasofia5756]

I love that someone not from Finland actually reacts to this!! 😍

[@hpacinstaller]

Okay so basically there are two groups in the tournament. Group A and Group B. First there is a preliminary round where each team plays one game against every team in their respective groups. From these preliminary rounds 4 teams with the highest amount of points proceed to the quarter finals, so we have 8 teams battling it out. Quarter finals are the one-and-done rounds as the teams that lose are out. The semi-finals are played between the winning 4 teams and the teams that lose in the semi-finals will meet in the bronze game while the winners will go to the final.

[@TealJosh]

I have such a strong nostalgia for this. I was in my last couple months of conscription and returning to the barracks from the weekend leave I sprint to the unit, switch out my gear and run downstairs to the tv-room and saw the finale. With the victory, I swear, the whole brigade roared, going downtown Helsinki to celebrate is nothing in comparison to that experience.

[@aazvank7000]

now is a good time to start following the Italian ice hockey team.. there is now a legendary man as head coach until the 2026 Olympics in Italy.. The man also appeared in this video😎

[@williamdalgren7240]

Yeah this was for sure an underrated cup run!

[@kimitahvanainen7651]

As a finn this gives me chills always

[@Ortti]

1995, 2011, 2019 and 2022 we won gold.. And 2022 we won our first ice hockey olympic gold also

[@SK-nw4ig]

No, USA is not the team to beat. I mean they are decent, usually playing for medals for real too, but really the best teams usually are Canada, Sweden, Finland, Russia and Czeck. Finland has won 1995, 2011, 2019 and 2022. Nice to follow your finland-rabbithole-dive :D Have you seen the trailer for the movie Sisu? React to that too

[@JiihaaS]

Yeah, the last time the US won the tournament was way back in 1933. They can be very dangerous though, as we saw in the opening game of this year (beat Finland 4-1), but they've definitely not been consistently great over the years.

[@sabertheglaceon256]

Yea our team has win more then US, hockey is Canada's game

[@rikupv]

USA have never taken the tournament seriously, so they never send the best players there (or they refuse to play). On paper though USA have some amazing players though

[@veboonetapsr6812]

​@@rikupvthey cant send best players becouse most of them are still playing in playoffs for lord stanley

[@Aquelll]

The penalty rules are different in ice-hockey. If you trip a breakaway player with your stick it is a penalty shot. It does not matter if he hits the puck or not.

[@teemusalakka2697]

I expected something 😎, told my friend that we have real chance to win cause now they played in the same city Bratislava as 2011 when we won last time and now was same coach as 2011 named Jukka Jalonen 💪. Of course amazing touch by number 13 Marko Anttila 👌a.k.a. Mörkö 🙂 helped a lot in the end games... 👏

[@DerMacko]

hrm.... the 'never forget' has its roots in the very first -95 IIHF victory (since it took ages to repeat it), together with 'Den glider in' which we stole from the hosting team. topkek!

[@toffotin]

That semi final agains Russia is one of my favorite hockey games ever. Especially as a goalie myself watching Kevin Lankinen stand against the star power of Russia and give them nothing! The way he sinks down when the game ends gives me chills every time I see it.

[@Tianda1111]

I love Hockey. Always Team Finland!🔥

[@Tianda1111]

Thank you Mauro♥

[@Finland-SkiTeam39-40]

Mauro; this was fun (as you do not have a clue on ice hockey ;-)) so keep up the good work !!

[@mantailuaa]

This was amazing tournament to watch, with no expectations and every win was a positive thing. My co-worker was in the audience in semifinal and in the final and she sent pictures from there, good memories. Everybody cried a lot when Finland won ❤ This was the third gold for Finland. The coach had been with the previous winning team in 2011 too but what makes it even more special is that those games 2011 were in the same hockey arena in Slovakia than these 2019 ones were. Talking about a golden coach!

[@rasehorn]

For Finland teams to beat are Canda, USA, Russia and most importantly SWEDEN

[@kjrav23]

canada finland usa argueably the top 3 best hockey countries rn. sweden russia also very good

[@kekkonenkalle]

im from finland and that won was best moment on my life 18 players firs time in this tournaument it was grazy!!!!!

[@Goldensheep12]

after year this video came out, the same head coach of finland in this video in that tournament is italys head coach for 2 years now on

[@IdentiteettiWarkaus]

Ville Nieminen... "I like that guy!" 😂😂

[@janiryhti6568]

Nice reaction!

[@tommilaitinen5555]

There are groups in World Cup soccer as well. Firstly 2 or 3 out of four teams get through the first round in the cup system, where eventually every loss means you are terminated from the tournament. In the end there is only one winner, the one who wins the final. It is the same system in ice hockey: first groups, then the playoffs in a cup system. World's top countries are Canada, USA, Finland, Sweden, Czech and Russia. Switzerland and Germany, e.g. have improved a lot during the past 10-20 years. In the world championship, the best players from NHL are not participating usually, as the world championship is normally at the same time with NHL play offs, and many NHL professional refuses to join. World Cup and olympic ice hockey (was) is a whole another level. It is like soccer world cup: the best players from any professional league, including NHL are in. In 2019 world championship the deal was that every other country, especially Canada and USA had a lot of NHL players in their teams. Russia, Sweden, Czech etc. included. Finland did not get any, but there were players from national league, KHL (Russian league) and other European leagues, so Finland was an underdog that according the specialist did not stand any chance beating any of the before mentioned big countries. And...

[@tommilaitinen5555]

Finland has four world championships in ice hockey: 1995, 2011, 2019 and 2022. As of 2022 Finland was IIHF (internatinal ice hockey federation) world ranking #1. Finland of around 5,6 million people, and behind the NHL countries Canada and USA with population and registered players of, don't know how many. Behind is also Russia which has one of the elite leagues, KHL, but still. Out of all those world championships Finland was the most underrated team in 2019. After Finland beat Russia, there were some bitter comments from Russians, that Finland is not playing ice hockey... Um, now what is Finland playing then if it is in the world championships of ice hockey? Playing badminton, chess, soccer, rugby... what? For about 20-25 years, Finland has been coached with high standards. The players have got mental practice, the players have been encouraged to make their own moves but always thinking about the whole, the team. Each move should benefit the team in some way, so there is no room for being selfish, and eventually the teams from juniors to seniors, the teams have become "families" where brothers help each other out. So the difference may be in the mentality which is very hard to practice or copy. We have the same kind of mentalities progressing in other team sports as well, but our nation is such a small one, that we do not have perhaps enough players to be on top of the world in all the team sports. But check Finnish volleyball, basketball (Lauri Markkanen), soccer (first time in European championships in 2021) etc.

[@0702372]

At the moment finland is the team to beat as we are #1 in world rankings. But generally USA, CAN, SWE, (RUS) are on top in rankings

[@oqlthorp]

I know the coach of this team, he was our junior team coach when I was a kid. His son played in the team too.

[@justy303]

I'm effing crying 🎉❤

[@zqoz0000]

usa/canada/sweden/Finland is the top of this sport

[@leo.soininen]

To respond to the question on why it is a penalty (in this case a penalty shot) is that even if you are able to make contact with the puck, but he also must be responsible for making sure the play is clean. The Canadian defender swipes his stick to knock the puck off and in doing this he hits the skates of the Finnish player this is tripping (usually a 2-min minor penalty), but in addition to that fact this play was an effective breakaway for Finland meaning that without the penalty (tripping) Finland would have had an incredible chance at scoring and this was blocked through an illegal play (tripping) so the referee rewarded a Penalty Shot to Finland. Later you see a regular tripping call (against Theodore when he tripped Kakko) and that led to a 2-min minor penalty against Shea Theodore and that Power play led to Anttila to score to make it 1-1.

[@MrMauriv]

you like Ville Nieminen, he is actually a coach in a Finnish team

[@debsiduracel]

We, a group of Finns, watched this finale in Guadeloupe, Island belonging to France, in the carribbean 🎉❤✌💥💯❣

[@Jokkepappa131]

Very good video man.

[@jukkaviertio6393]

HBL:" The most awful Finnish national team ever!"😂

[@simonkaataja]

The qualifiers to the quarter finals goes like the 4 best teams of each block goes to the quarterfinals you get 3points for a win and 2 points for ot win and 1 for ot loss

[@keijovalikangas2126]

We love you too....

[@ANSSI_91]

16 teams in 2 groups, 8 teams each. Top 4 goes thru Quarter Finals, and last from each groups will be relegated to lower division. Host is usually been selected few years earlier before the tournament. Typically one country and two cities(1 group each city). This year thou, there will be two hosts, Finland(Tampere) and Latvia(Riga).

[@holoholopainen1627]

Finland IS The host Town Favorite - and Latvia The Underdog !

[@frankreynolds1812]

The guy saying Sweden wins 9 out of 10 times, but not today is Stanley Cup Champion Ville Nieminen and turns out... he was correct.

[@XWeedhunterX]

Always Remember Jukka Jalonen. Medeia hated him, Social media hated him, Year after the years he grinded as the head coach of Finnish Hockey. Achieved many things. I Wish that he can bring the Italian Hockey to the top of the world just because of all the hate he got as the head coach.

[@Reikämuna]

In ice hockey there is like group stage first and then quarter finals then semi finals and then final 👍

[@Tommi462]

Hockey World Championships is very different to football World Cup, where every country has their best players usually, unless injured. This hockey tournament is stupidly held at a time when the NHL is still playing playoffs, so most of the top players are still playing there and can't come. Many who are already out of the playoffs will have injuries they need to heal and stuff. It's not just that they don't want to come (although in some cases it might be that too). In hockey, the Olympics used to be much more important since it was best against best, but now they don't go there either (NHL didn't want to have a break in the season during the Olympics anymore). It's bullshit, but at least it's the same for every country. I just feel like it's really watered down if it's not best against best and don't really care all that much anymore.

[@vauu1266]

The first games was group stage games and after them if you hsve got enough points you go to quaterfinals

[@peterarmoton2685]

you have to come in Finland, Sodankylä, Midnight Film Festival

[@Juissimies84]

Try not to cry -> cry a lot ;_;

[@naaliz5612]

Btw did you know that this head coach is Italy's head coach rn

[@DerMacko]

@16:00 tripping the player going thru is automatic penalty, the soccer rule of touching the ball/puck doesnt count. There are other ways of stopping the player so this one is naughty and needs to be punished.

[@Gibbetoo]

World Cup and World Championships are different tournaments. Finland has won 1995, 2011, 2019 ja 2022 and Olympics 2018.

[@MlCROPIZZA]

Olympics 2022 not 2018

[@Gibbetoo]

@@MlCROPIZZA my mistake, sorry.

[@HEA785]

Bro I don't see Italy ever as an underdogs at football. I actually did bet Italy to win Euro 2020 and thus I won decent sum of money 😃 Greetings from Finland 🦁🦁🦁

[@sharikh7320]

Ceremony seagame 32th 2023 in Cambodia is amazing I think you missed it

[@Pyllymysli]

Scoring from that far sure is difficult but there is always traffic distracting the goalie and the best D-man shooters can hammer that puck over 150 km/h so I'm asking how do they ever save anything?

[@RoyalMela]

One thing you must also remember that unlike all other sports, ice hockey world championships do not have the best players available. Far from it. Top league NHL, which has 32 teams and over 1000 worlds top players under contract, do still play their playoffs at the same time. And most players who are not playing in the playoffs, do not bother to join their teams. It is like in football if Premier League, Serie A, La Liga and Bundesliga would play at the same time and players from those leagues could not join their national teams.

[@mauronicolo89]

It's fucked up! At least in football they always stop every league in order to let players join their national teams

[@RoyalMela]

@@mauronicolo89 Yes, I know. Hockey has not had "best against best" since 2014 Winter Olympics.

[@pyroslavia9499]

World Cup in hockey is played only few times. world championship is played every year at time when best players still play in NHL playoffs

[@FreddieBear1]

Depends on the season. There have been plenty of occasions were the best players don't play the Stanley Cup. Individual players means less than a good functioning roster. When that said I love the IIHF Worlds. You never know what you get!!

[@762rk95tp]

Random reaction video. Johnny Gaudreau. RIP. He died week ago.

[@petrusinvictus3603]

Canada Invented the Game.

[@TPacoustic]

The players were not rookies. They are/were professionals. Just first timers in world championships. There were no NHL players on that team. Now the same core has won another world championship and olympic gold. Some of them have gone to NHL, some stay professionals in Europe. World championships are held every spring. NHL doesn't take a break for this tournament, but the players who are not in NHL playoffs anymore can come. In 2019 Russia had almost their full best on best squad. This year Finland has the 3rd best scorer from NHL on the team. The problem with Finland is, their top players are so good, and they take their teams so far in NHL, they cannot come. But there are good players in Europe, so there is no point in bringing 4th liners from North America anyways.

[@marjahirviniemi2732]

del piero 10 , juventus is my faforit

[@ariipatti2965]

This is Finland do not fuck up with Finland! :)

[@MrKyly]

the groke :DDD

[@lopsu3871]

Im not crying, you are crying.

[@R0vast1]

RIP Johnny Hockey

[@phoenix8261]

So, there's 8 teams per group. Top 4 advance to the quarterfinals

[@phoenix8261]

Of each group*

[@Arttu_Viinikka]

8:30 Finnish team was ”shit” on paper in 2019 world championships

[@yeayea537]

If interested to see the Finnish NHL players you should watch Alex Berntsen's videos of the Finnish players Sebastian Aho, Aleksander Barkov, and Patrik Laine. He also has a combination video of the Finnish nhl players called Finnish hockey is the best in the world.

[@spoonzor1]

Its the same as football and most sports, you play group stage then advance to play off.

[@hightie1]

By the way say give my regards to the grand old lady (Juva)

[@Jefrma]

It really wasn't the number of first timers that made the finnish people so doubtful about the team and calling them worst in a long time, but the fact that we barely had active KHL&NHL players on the team. If sweden arrived in the next WC with just 5 NHL players and rest were from all over europe, they'd meet the same fate in the hands of their media & fans. That is why by far this is my fav gold. Nobody believed in them,not even their own people. 1995 wasn't a surprise win and 2011 the finns were in general a potential medal candidate but 2019 people expected their games to end early on. And then they went and beat sweden and russia (who I think on paper had the best team) and not only beat russia but left them with zero goals. They weren't even a B team,more like D team..yet on the last stretch they won teams that were filled with the best players teams can get in today's WC's. Really was and is a modern version of Miracle on Ice

[@peterarmoton2685]

because we want to be underdog❤ you know, We are not russians and we wont be swedish, so let us been Finns❤

[@stoner84x]

Team to beat is now Finland and Canada comes second

[@samartik74]

Löikö MÖRKÖ sisään!!!!

[@nervanderi]

Napoli win...

[@Volander]

come mai tutta sta finlandia mania?

[@mauronicolo89]

Imparo il finlandese 😆

[@Volander]

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[@mauronicolo89]

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[@Volander]

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[@kheldaur2107]

"Is USA the team to beat in this game" Hell no :DD. Usually they suck at the world championships.

[@FyodorUshakovSuka]

To be honest. Even the national team today is same level as NHL and finns never bow to no-one. Skill is there even its a small country. Sweden ja RUSSIA had their best players. Matter of will!?

[@TerryFGM]

first timers in the world champions is not the same as "rookies" but the subtitles in the video are horrible anyway

[@trl2828]

Canada is by far the #1. Followed by Russia or the USA or Sweden depending on the year. IMO. The greatest thing about hockey is that any team has a chance to win a hockey game. Hockey because of the speed and physicalness anyone can win, star power is great but does not equal a win like other sports.

[@tomi_9212]

Torilla tavataan.

[@tomi_9212]

Also "Torille!" is a finnish phrase used whenever Finland is mentioned outside its borders in any form. The sentence is translated as "Let's meet at the Market Square" which is a place in Helsinki (Finland's capital city) where Finns celebrate any sport related success of their naitional team, pretty much only of the ice hockey one. Amongst Finns the phrase is usually used in sarcastic way, as Finland apparently craves for international recognition and attention. (in finnish) - "Hey, there is an article about finnish baseball in Washington Post!" - "Haha torilla tavataan!"

[@MaxJensen-h2s]

5-0 is nothing. We Danes lost back in 1949 0-47 to Canada.

[@pauli2951]

You are actually 100% right about the penalty shot, it was a bad call. The rule is basically the same as in football.

[@Nekoksu]

You are not allowed to trip someone and it was an attempt to goal... Sun pitäs tietää.

[@JackM.]

No. This is wrong information. 100% clear penalty shot. If you get the puck first and trip a player after, it is still a tripping penalty. And actually it is the same rule in football nowadays. The thing that you have to touch puck/ball first is a common misunderstanding of the rules. Only if the trip after was accidental then it can be waved off, but a reckless dive is not accidental.

[@phoenix8261]

@@JackM. He was through all by himself. The puck was in control until he was tripped. That's a penalty unless the ref is doing coke. End of story.

[@rizka7945]

It should have been a minor penalty for tripping instead of a penalty shot. From the rule 24.8 IV: "If, in the opinion of the Referee, a Player makes contact with the puck first and subsequently trips the opponent in so doing, no “Penalty Shot” will be awarded, but a Minor Penalty for “tripping” shall be assessed."

[@aazvank7000]

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