The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. Not giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; if means being comfortable with being different.
By
@IAmMarkManson
40 yrs ago in the "forgotten" game. Finns lead US 2-1 after two. Miracle is slipping away. Herb Brooks during intermission: "If you lose this, you'll take it with you to your f****** graves." Brooks turns around, stops at the door: "To your f****** graves". Walks out.
Just in from Swiss Ice Hockey Association:
1. The demand to the IIHF Council calls for, among other things, the immediate exclusion of the Russian and Belarusian ice hockey federations as members of the IIHF. >
‼️
#SwissIceHockey
hat zusammen mit weiteren Mitgliederverbänden bei der IIHF unmittelbare und weitreichende Konsequenzen für den russischen und den weissrussischen Eishockeyverband gefordert:
The Czech Republic has issued a commemorative banknote for Jaromir Jagr's 50th birthday. Note the Triple Gold Club logo on the face side. On the back, the crowded Old Town Square in Prague, where the Czech hockey team arrived after winning the Nagano Olympics in 1998.
Congratulations to the one and only Jaromir Jagr, who turns 50 today and - amazingly - is in his 34th season as a pro hockey player. A true warrior, member of the Triple Gold Club.
@RytiriKladno
@narodnitym
🇨🇿
@telhcz
1. Min mor var 25 år när Hitlers flyg 1941 anföll den ukrainska staden Lviv (då polska Lwów) och bland det knapphändiga hon berättade från kriget var när hon skräckslagen sprang från husport till husport genom Lvivs gator för ta skydd från bomber. >
Minute of silence at all seven SHL games, prior to the start of the second periods. News about Börje Salming's passing came after that the round of games had started at 19:00 Swedish time. Me knowingly, the first time games are interrupted to pay tribute to a national hero.
Daniel Alfredsson inducted to Swedish Hockey HoF here today. Alfie, who never was good enough for SWE U18 or U20 teams, not even the U16 TV-Puck nationals, is an inspiration to all not super-talented kids. Alfie also the lone SWE player with 5 Olympics. 📷 Tommy Holl.
SC Bern, the perennial Swiss hockey powerhouse with European hockey's highest attendance and turnover, has named Florence Schelling, 31, as new General Manager. Schelling, one of the most accomplished female hockey players in the world, will become first female GM of a pro club.
1. Following the🧵which showed the connections between the KHL and the Kremlin, Putin and his cronies, this one will explain how the KHL became a tool for Putin’s expansionist plans in the soft-power area of hockey.
This has never happened before in Swedish hockey. The top 43 women national team players have announced that they will not participate in the upcoming
#Damkronor
training camp and the ensuing 5-nation tournament. The players demand equitable conditions for women's hockey.
Of all options this would be the worst. After playing against men, pros in Finnish league, being MVP at Olympics, excelling in Worlds, he would take a giant step back to junior. It's like going to highschool after graduating from college.
The only Swede to have played in five Olympic hockey tournaments has been inducted to the
@IIHFHockey
Hall of Fame. Congratulations,
@DAlfredsson11
🥇Gold
#Turin2006
Fredrik Claesson har enligt uppgift gjort ett medvetet val att förlänga sitt avtal med arméklubben CSKA som sponsras av en av Putins närmaste hantlangare, Igor Sechin. M.a.o. ord kommer Claessons lön från samma källor som betalar för folkmordet i Ukraina.
God Jul, Fredrik.
Rest in piece, you indestructible, amazing trail blazer. Knowing what's coming, Börje Salming wanted to make the appearances in Toronto and Stockholm, to say goodbye. Few players had such impact on hockey as Salming.
Is there any other sport that is so full of codes and unwritten rules? Would be better if he flipped the puck up in the air and headed it in? Or went for a wraparound? What is the proper way of scoring an EN-goal without insulting? Why are hockey players so easily offended?
@annieloof
Hej
@annieloof
Jag är invandrare, uppväxt i Bergsjön o Hammarkullen. Svenskar är inte rädda för utländska butiker. Svenskar är världens mest toleranta folk. Vi är rädda för skjutningar, bomber, brinnande bilar, hedersvåld, urholkat samhällskontrakt, kaos i skolan.
Heard on Swedish radio this morning, a line that in a wonderful way reflects the national character of shyness and the hereditary need of social spacing:
- Hopefully this two meters of corona distancing will soon be over so we can get back to our normal five meters. 🇸🇪
FIFA must ban Russia from further World Cup qualifiers and UEFA must move the Champions League final from St. Petersburg. And the IIHF must ban both Russia and accomplice Belarus from the upcoming World Championship in Finland. >
1. Finnish Hockey Association demands that Russia and Belarus be completely excluded from international hockey. FIN does not intend to play against the national teams of these countries, said chairman Harri Nummela. >
Very sad news on Finnish national team player Sanni Hakala who, while playing for HV71 in Sweden collided head-first with the net. The 26-year, who has represented 🇫🇮 in two Olympics and four Worlds, is paralyzed from the chest down, with reduced function in the arms and hands.>
Thread:
1. Honest question to Canadian media: Why isn't there any reaction to the some 26 Canadians that have signed KHL-contracts after Russia's invasion of Ukraine? >
Hennes bror får sina blodspengar direkt av Igor Setjin, en av Putins främsta supportrar och som hjälper att bekosta folkmordet i Ukraina via oljebolaget Rosneft, som sponsrar armélaget CSKA.
Och hon anser att det är läge att stoltsera med detta.
Listen to the crowd at the SHL-game Leksand vs Luleå on Saturday where the home and away fans take turns in chanting "F*** off, Putin" via
@Superklinga
Emotional night in Jönköping. 17-year old Herman Liv dressed for his first pro game yesterday for visiting Örebro, in the arena where his father Stefan was a hero and where his
#1
hangs from the rafters. Stefan died in the Lokomotiv plane crash in 2011, when Herman was five.
Extremely emotional moment when NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly presents Börje Salming with NHL's Honorary Award. It took an amazing effort by Börje to make it to the stage accompanied by his family. He received the biggest ovation of the night.
Swedish icehockey association informs:
1. Swedish players who choose to play in the KHL next season, will not be eligible for the SWE national team.
2. Swedish players who took part in the 2022 KHL-playoffs, are not considered for the IIHF Worlds in Finland.
Massmördaren Putin och hans knähund Lukasjenka besöker Putins favoritlag, SKA St. Petersburg. Nånstans där står svenske målvakten Johan Mattsson. Kanske stolt, kanske skamsen, kanske är det bara pengar som spelar någon roll.
BREAKING: Latvian Dinamo Riga is out of the KHL:
"In response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine, the council of Dinamo Riga has decided to withdraw from all KHL structures." - HC Dinamo Riga official twitter account. >
President of Polish Football Assoc says that FIFA decision is not acceptable and that Poland will not play Russia (in World Cup playoff) "regardless of what the Russian team is named."
Dzisiejsza decyzja FIFA jest dla nas nie do zaakceptowania. W sytuacji wojny na Ukrainie nie interesuje nas gra pozorów. Nasze stanowisko pozostaje bez zmian: reprezentacja Polski NIE ZAGRA z Rosją w meczu barażowym, niezależnie od nazwy rosyjskiej drużyny.
#solidarnizukraina
Demolition man.
💣
Wearing the jersey in which he won Luleå's so far lone Swedish championship, 1996. Other achievements include four Stanley Cups and Olympic gold.
After being diagnosed with acute liver failure on Tuesday, Alexei Yemelin, 34, is now being prepared for a liver transplant surgery. As reported by
@sportexpress
and other Russian sports media. We wish the
@hcavangardomsk
captain & former
@PredsNHL
@CanadiensMTL
swift recovery.
Хоккеисту «Авангарда» Алексею Емелину диагностировали острую и подострую печеночную недостаточность в НИИ имени Склифосовского, куда его доставили утром ⚡
34-летнего хоккеиста сейчас готовят к операции по трансплантации печени.
Здоровья! 🙏
Donating one of my dearest belongings; Original Triple Gold Club jersey signed by all 22
#TGC
members who were inducted on 22 Feb 2010 during Vancouver Olympics. All funds go to trust for Tobias Forsberg, the
@leksands_if
player, paralyzed following a terrible on-ice accident.
The basic reason for the offer sheet to Kotkaniemi is that he was uprooted from Finland when far from NHL ready, Habs wouldn't even have him play one World Juniors. There was never any consideration what the player needed, only what the club wanted. There was never any plan.
Medan Ryssland begår folkmord i Ukraina, vinner Adam Reideborn och Klas Dahlbeck ryska titeln med arméklubben CSKA Moskva. Linusarna Hultström och Videll spelade hos förlorarna. >
När jag kom till Sverige som 12-åring tog jag varken skada av
#lucia
, skolavslutning i kyrkan eller rotmos med korv. Mina föräldrar, som kom ur en helt annan bakgrund, ansåg, hör och häpna, att man tar seden dit man kommer.
To all Canadian friends; yesterday Sweden beat you in hockey. Today, Sweden beat you in curling. You have one more try. Please pick another of your national sports where you can try to beat Sweden. Lacrosse? Canadian football? 🇸🇪🇨🇦
Börje Salming receives a standing ovation at the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation's Centennial Gala in Stockholm's Avicii Arena. He was earlier named to the 🇸🇪 100 Year's All Star Team >
Rantanen, MacKinnon, Landeskog, yada, yada, yada. 1990-91, the lone season they played together in La Vieille Capital; a French Flower, a sweet Swede and a son of a Croatian immigrant. That was a line! Beautiful jerseys too.
Organized a European-player-names-pronunciation workshop for NHL broadcasters in St. Petersburg. This guy (right) was the only play-by-play sportscaster who showed up. First lesson, say after me:
ShestYORkin
1. An interesting story developing. Ivan Fedotov, who has a valid contract with NHL Flyers, is as we speak playing in CSKA Moscow's season opener. This means that - me knowingly - it is the first time that an IIHF affiliated federation, league and club defies an IIHF sanction.>
Swedish ice hockey association announced that Swedish players in the Russian KHL will not be eligible for selection to the 🇸🇪national team.
"The decision sends a strong message to the hockey world as it's about our fundamental values," says association president Anders Larsson."
1. Habs made every possible mistake with Slafkovsky from the minute he was drafted, escorting him like royalty through the locker room, handing him
#20
, signing him, keeping him with the team, not releasing him to WJC and Worlds when he clearly was not NHL-ready. >
Swedish columnist Marcus Leifby,
@Aftonbladet
, calls out the six Swedes who played in the KHL this season "a disgrace in Sweden's sports history." There were +40 Canadians who this season played in the Putin-backed league. Any reactions from 🇨🇦 media?
Now the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation backs up the Swiss call to exclude Russia from international hockey and strip them of 2023 hosting rights to IIHF Worlds and World Juniors. 🇱🇻
För en svensk att få NHL-kontrakt:
70-talet: Bäst i Tre Kronor
80-talet: Bärande i Tre Kronor
90-talet: Stjärna i klubblaget
00-talet: Platsar i klubblaget
10-talet: Lovande i klubblaget
20-talet: Ett handfull matcher, 0 mål i SHL
Always loved this quote by Vladislav Tretiak: "I've won three Olympics, ten Worlds, one Canada Cup but all interviews I do are about the two games I didn't win, Lake Placid '80 and 1972 Game-8."
Happy Birthday, Vladik, 69!
(We were once very good looking)
Mario Lemieux, Saku Koivu, Phil Kessel, Jason Blake, Olli Määttä and Jason Blake all fought through it and won. Oskar Lindblom will make it 7-0.
#OskarStrong
I may go out on a limb here but I can't think of any fans in hockey who are more vocal, better coordinated and have more impact on their team's performance than Djurgården's. In the world. They are almost Glasgow Celtic like, but that's "fitba".
Vi kom trea. Igen. Tack alla fantastiska ungdomsledare, vars kall är att jobba för svensk hockey men som indirekt jobbar för NHL och berikar deras 32 redan väldigt rika ägare. Tänk om svensk hockey fick skäligt betalt för det oerhörda jobb som läggs ner.
1. Hockey is not important today, but it’s important to show the connections between the KHL and the Kremlin, Putin and his cronies. (Picture: CSKA Moscow vow loyalty, "Putin - our President" on second day of invasion of Ukraine.) >
The only national hockey championship trophy named after another country. Kanada-malja ("Canada Bowl"), awarded to the Finnish🇫🇮 champion, so named as it was donated by Canada's Finnish community, in 1951.
At Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame in Tampere.
Another massgrave with 440 bodies is discovered in Ukraine. Oil and gas pays for these atrocities, the same source that pays salaries to 45 KHL Canadians, plus nine Canadians dressed up as Chinese. By far the biggest foreign legion in Putin's league.
Here is the list of shame:
Djurgården v Mora, best-of-7 promotion game to the SHL. Not even a meaningful Saturday night game at the Centre Bell vs a historic rival can match this.
19. Som tur är tog Larsson inte fram talepunkten ”Svenska ishockeyförbundet bedriver inte utrikespolitik” som var policyn när han inte kunde avstånd från att spela VM i Lukasjenkos Belarus. Larsson var lojal med chefen Fasel som han kallade för ”vår president”. /slut
Full house 10.000 at the 1994 Olympic Håkans Hall at 🇧🇻 league game
@LillehammerIK
v
@StorhamarHockey
. Norway is the hockey country with the biggest untapped growth potential. They just need to get their shit together.
Unnar verkligen Johan Garpenlöv en VM-seger mot en stark nation. Hans tid som FK har varit ett helvete. Ett inställt VM, ett skit-VM, ett piss-OS utan de bästa, och under den tiden har både mor och far gått bort. Ett guld hade varit nåt. Heja Garpen!
12. The big catch was Finnish Jokerit Helsinki in 2014. Jokerit owner Hjallis Harkimo ran such a bad hockey business that he was relieved to sell the team and the Hartwall arena to Russian billionaires and Putin cronies, Timchenko and Rotenberg.
15. How ludicrous was Jokerit’s KHL idea? It’s 3km between Jokerit’s arena and IFK Helsinki’s rink. These great rivals could no longer meet in heated derby-games as Jokerit needed to fly 6500km to Khabarovsk or 6300km to China to play games with zero history.
Very encouraging news on former NHLer Alexander Sulzer, who was diagnosed with cancer the other week. His club
@DuesseldorferEG
announced today that the tumor has been completely removed after a cervical spine surgery. We hope for a complete recovery and return to ice.
Stockholm clubs AIK and Djurgården have 151 major league seasons and 23 national titles together. But both are relegated to Sweden's 2nd tier league where they tonight played before a sold-out Avicii Arena. >
Mats Sundin just said on Swedish television that the Leafs are the strongest brand in the NHL, comparing them to FC Barcelona or Man United. I would never question anything he says, but shouldn't a strong brand also imply occasional winning?
The news of Salming's passing came when the round of SHL games had just begun. So prior to the start of the second period of the game b/w Börje's former team Brynäs at Leksand there was a short memorial ceremony and a minute of silence.
For the first time in 53 years did my brother Włodek and I together return to Kazimierzowska 74, the street in Warsaw which we left in 1969. Quite an emotional moment.
#Warszawa
🇵🇱
#Mokot
òw
#WarsawGothenburgToronto
Publik: 7239 i Zürich ikväll, med rigorösa säkerhetsbestämmelser. Att
@zsclions
med Rikard Grönborg, Fredrik Pettersson och Marcus Krüger förlorar hemma mot Genève på straffar är en bisak. Hockeyn tillåts leva.
I schweiziska ligan har man lagt till en linje som underlättar om kameran har svårt att avgöra om pucken helt är över mållinjen. Så fort pucken nuddar den inre linjen då är pucken inne.
Possible
@officialEIHL
league decider,
@BelfastGiants
v
@cardiffdevils
. Belfast has done a great job attracting people from both communities in this deeply divided city. No loyalist or republican colors allowed in the arena. >
1. Tänkte att jag inte ska skriva om Anders Larsson idag, och avvakta IIHF-beslutet ang. RUS & BLR, men jag ändrade mig då jag hörde Johan Garpenlöv uttala sig i sportradion om Ryssland. Förbundskaptenen pratar i viktiga förhållningsfrågor, men inte ordföranden! >
This an excellent idea also for the NHL. The club comms guy would ask the player: "Tell us how your name is pronounced in your country?" (No, no, you´re not supposed to Americanize your name!)
And the answer would be: Igor ShestYOrkin.
After WWII, Germany was not allowed back to Olympics until 1952, to FIFA World Cup until 1954 and to IIHF Worlds until 1953. And then as West Germany, with the old Germany dismantled. It will take many year before Russia is back in sports, with all the Putinists gone.
Russian NHLers on a future without international play: ‘Just doesn’t seem fair’
Over many weeks,
@TheAthletic
talked with Russian stars about the intl ban. Hear from Ovechkin, Malkin, Kaprizov, Kucherov, Sergachev, Vasilevskiy & Svechnikov
A reporter rumoured to be from MSG Network makes a stunningly fluent interview in Swedish with a strikingly similar looking veteran player at an SHL-game tonight.
Would say that this is one of the bigger European upsets in recent years. Consider also that Cardiff did not play any league games last season due to the pandemic. Lausanne is a force in the Swiss league. Well done,
@cardiffdevils
According to the Finnish broadcaster MTV, Jokerit Helsinki are pulling out of the KHL playoffs. MTV are referring to several sources and say that the official announcement will follow soon.
One of the worst things about US sports leagues continuously maximizing profit over passion is that the world’s best players don’t get to compete in environments like this. Real fans get priced out and the atmosphere at games becomes much less fun.
It's 46 years and 2,5 km between the two standing ovations in Toronto, bestowed upon Sweden's arguably most iconic player. Börje Salming belongs to the people of Toronto as much as in Sweden. It's both tragic and heartwarming. 🇸🇪🇨🇦
4. Finally, Swiss Ice Hockey has decided that the senior men's national team will not travel to Russia to play a friendly against Russia as part of the IIHF Worlds preparations next spring - contrary to the original plan.🇨🇭
Oliver Ekman-Larsson kommer alltså få c:a 24m kr per år i åtta år för att inte spela hockey för Vancouver. Han kan m.a.o. spela för Tingsryd i typ 3-4 år till, sponsra TAIF med 4 mille per säsong och ha 20 miljoner över per år för att sätta mat på bordet.
Hyser stor beundran för dessa kvinnor som är beredda att betala sånt pris för att kunna spela OS. Detta medan IOC-styrelsen tar ut $900 i traktamente. Om dagen.
2. Swiss Ice Hockey calls for withdrawal of the IIHF U20 World Championship in December 2022 from Novosibirsk and the IIHF World Championship in May 2023 from St. Petersburg. >
3. Furthermore, the signatory member federations demand the immediate exclusion of all officials with Russian or Belarusian citizenship from all official positions and committees of the IIHF and immediate termination of cooperation with the Kontinental Hockey League KHL.>
This, I would say, is one of the most remarkable results in European club hockey in recent history. Liberec is an every-year contender in the Czech league. Huge result for
@BelfastGiants
and their enthusiastic fanbase.
GAME OVER | History made🙌
The Stena Line Belfast Giants win their first ever
@championshockey
game as they defeat Liberec of Czech Republic on a famous Thursday night in Belfast!
Final: Giants 5-4 Liberec
#WeAreGiants
#ChampionsGoBeyond