Ice Hockey Finland World Championship

The finnish men s national ice hockey team or leijonat lejonen as it is called in finland is governed by the finnish ice hockey association.

Ice hockey finland world championship. Sounds and colors are s. Each city will host one group and two quarter final games with both semi finals and the medal games to be played in. The tampere deck arena will serve as main venue of the 2022 iihf ice hockey world championship in finland. Dear trophy welcome to finland.

The 2022 iihf ice hockey world championship will take place from 13 to 29 may 2022. 5 hours of finns celebrating squeezed into about 3 minutes. Finland won the ice hockey world championship in slovakia on sunday evening making it the third world title for the lions or leijonat following previous championship wins in 1995 and 2011. Temperature was under 10 celsius 50 f.

And in minsk belarus and riga latvia in 2021. Captain marko anttila who scored the only goal of the team s semi final win over russia delivered once again with two goals. It is finland s third world title for the third time having also won the competition in 1995 and 2011 finland came from behind to beat favourites canada 3 1 and win the ice hockey world. Finland final 2019 iihf ice hockey world championship finland defeated canada 3 1 to win their second gold in as many hostings by slovakia the previous win coming in 2011.

First officially held at the 1920 summer olympics it is the sport s highest profile annual international tournament the iihf was created in 1908 while the european championships the precursor to the world championships were first held in 1910. You are on world championship 2021 ice hockey world page live hockey scores at ice hockey 24 offer hockey live scores and results providing also goal scorers ice hockey period results goal alerts and other hockey live score information from world world championship 2021 and many other ice hockey competitions. A pair of silver medals remain the country s best olympic. Can fin 26 may 2019.

Finland is considered a member of the so called big six the unofficial group of the six strongest men s ice hockey nations along with canada united states the czech republic russia and sweden. The 2021 iihf world championship will be co hosted by minsk belarus and riga latvia as the iihf announced on 19 may 2017. It will take place from 21 may to 6 june 2021. The ice hockey world championships are an annual international men s ice hockey tournament organized by the international ice hockey federation iihf.