What a hit

I haven't really written about hockey lately because our season ended month ago. We are still playing for fun two times a week. Mainly I've focused on studying to get into medical school. The main reason I wanted to post about icehockey was this great hit Ville Varakas from Blues made in the finals of the finnish hockey league (SM-liiga). Eventhough Siim Liivik got a little damage there, HIFK has won all of the three matches and is now one win away from the championship. Next match is on Monday.

What do you think? Clean hit? Varakas got 5+20 mins for charging from that but didn't get suspended from the next game. In my opinion that was HARD but mostly clean hit and max. 2 mins for charging would've been more than enough.

Second place

Or should I say: "Silver pocal, yay!"? What I'm trying to say is that last weekend we had our last hockey match of the season and we ended up second in our league. It's kind of historical because none else in our city has been able to pull that off before. We had many nice & tight matches and I think our strenght was the evenness of our players. None is professional and none is a total flour sack. Too bad we almost won the whole thing but silver is still very good achievement for us.

I have been talking about feelings a lot lately so I'm not going to try to describe that feeling this time. You can imagine. After the game we went out to a club and had a lot of fun in a perfect group. This season has been just amazing and hockey has never been this fun to play. It's sad how all the good things have to come to an end but that's just life. I'll never forget these guys and I'll save these memories for the rest of my life.

I love Icehockey

I've played icehockey since I was the height of a foam extinguisher. Icehockey has always been close to my heart, eventhough I hurt my ankle couple years back. This season we have had an extraordinary team constisting of pack of old friends who last year were on their own ways in army and other teams. The main reason why I have kept playing is because it gives me so much joy. Winning matches with your best friends, having so much fun while exercising. 

However, hockey is rough and injuries are normal. You just have to live with it. I just read from the newspaper that a young talent from HIFK Markus Granlund got injured yesterday in a game versus Jokerit. The original piece of news can be found in finnish here. It has raised some discussion and my own opinion about the case is that cleaning the goal area is part of the game and none is going to just tickle you a little if you go there, escpecially when it's play-offs now. They are not going to be any more gentle for little Markus in the NHL either.