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Finland men's national ice hockey team

Finland
Shirt badge/Association crest
Nickname(s) Leijonat / Lejonen
(The Lions)
Association Finnish Ice Hockey Association
General Manager Jere Lehtinen
Head coach Lauri Marjamäki
Assistants Waltteri Immonen
Kalle Kaskinen
Teppo Numminen
Captain Mikko Koivu
Most games Raimo Helminen (331)
Most points Raimo Helminen (207)
IIHF code FIN
Finnish national team jerseys 2016 (WCH).png
Ranking
Current IIHF 3 Increase1
Highest IIHF 2 (first in 2011)
Lowest IIHF 7 (2005)
First international
 Sweden 8–1 Finland 
(Helsinki, Finland; 29 January 1928)
Biggest win
 Finland 20–1 Norway 
(Hämeenlinna, Finland; 12 March 1947)
Biggest defeat
 Canada 24–0 Finland 
(Oslo, Norway; 3 March 1958)
IIHF World Championships
Appearances 56 (first in 1939)
Best result Gold medal with cup.svg Gold: 2 – 1995, 2011
Canada Cup / World Cup
Appearances 6
Best result Silver medal with cup.svg Runner-up (2004)
Olympics
Appearances 14 (first in 1952)
Medals Silver medal.svg Silver (1988, 2006)
Bronze medal.svg Bronze (1994, 1998, 2010, 2014)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1988 Calgary Team
Silver medal – second place 2006 Torino Team
Bronze medal – third place 1994 Lillehammer Team
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Nagano Team
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Vancouver Team
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Sochi Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1995 Sweden
Gold medal – first place 2011 Slovakia
Silver medal – second place 1992 Czechoslovakia
Silver medal – second place 1994 Italy
Silver medal – second place 1998 Switzerland
Silver medal – second place 1999 Norway
Silver medal – second place 2001 Germany
Silver medal – second place 2007 Russia
Silver medal – second place 2014 Belarus
Silver medal – second place 2016 Russia
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Russia
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Latvia
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Canada

The Finnish men's national ice hockey team, or Leijonat / Lejonen (The Lions in Finnish and Swedish), as it is called in Finland, is governed by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association. 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, the Czech Republic, Russia, Sweden and the United States.

In the 1995 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, Finland achieved its first ever gold in international ice hockey. Finland reached the final with a 5-0 victory over France in the quarterfinals, and a 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic in the semifinals. In the finals, the Finns faced off against their hockey rivals and host of the 1995 tournament, Sweden. In the first period of the final, left wing Ville Peltonen scored a natural hat trick, and then assisted on Timo Jutila's first period goal to give Finland a 4-0 lead, on the way to an eventual 4-1 victory.

At the 1998 Olympic men's ice hockey tournament, Team Finland came away with Bronze, after defeating Canadian national team 3–2. Teemu Selänne led the tournament in goals scored (4) and total points achieved (10). The tournament was the first in which professional players from the National Hockey League (NHL) were allowed to participate, allowing national teams to be constructed using the best possible talent from each country. The 1998 Olympic tournament therefore came to be known as the "Tournament of the Century". Unlike previous Olympics where athletes could choose five-star hotel accommodations (such as the USA Men's Basketball team), NHL players were required to stay in the Olympic Village like other athletes.


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