Ice hockey

Ice hockey is the main sport in Finland. They have one o hockey team in the world and a player which play in NLF, best hockey league in the world. They have more than 78 thousand registered hockey players.

Finland is the best hockey team in the world right now. They won the last hockey world cup in Bratislava. They have 13 medals from world cups. Of this they have 3 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 3 bronze medals. They also have 6 Olympic medals, but they don’t have gold medal. On a world hockey standing is on 4th rank. Just Canada, Russia and Sweden are behind them. They have a very strong hockey league called Liiga. Best Finland clubs are HPK which is , Tappara Tampere which is the most successful club in Finland, TPS Turku and HIFK Helsinki. Best hockey players are Patrik Laine (Winnipeg Jets), which was the second pick in NLF draft 2016 , Sebastian Aho (Carolina Hurricanes), Mikko Rantanen(Colorado Avalanche) and Kaapo Kakko (New York Rangers).

I had chance to go on hockey game. I bought a ticket for it, but it was because of COVID-19 played without spectators.

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