Ill give a go too.

I am Mikko,a 22 year old Finn who lives in Tampere,Finland. jmixa is my nick at the IHWC boards too. J comes from my surname and Mixa is my nickname so jmixa,yeah no greativity at all

Ive started to follow hockey at quite a young age thanks to my father who introduced me into this great sport. When I was 5 I told to him that I want to start playing so he ended his own career and started to coach a small junior club and I started there at the same time. After a few years at the outside rink series I managed to get drafted to my own aged junior club what played at the top level in ice hall series(top junior serie) and played in a team called Tappara what came from Tampere offcourse. My highlight in my career was when we won 2 junior golds in hall series and were unbeaten for 2 years. I was voted 2 times in a row for top3 in the most promising players of our country. This days Im still playing but only for fun at Finnish division 2 or 3 as I done some stupid choices at my career so I ended up quite far from my dream.

What comes to national teams offcourse Im a proud supporter of our international team,Team Finland but also I like to US hockey so its my 2nd team always in the games Im cheering for. Also Ive always liked to Team Russia but its mainly because of what them offered to hockey and its always good to look them hockey as the skill is still there. My favourite player actually is Sergei Fedorov so Im happy to see him in the games,ok the best years are gone but hes still awesome. What comes to my favourite NHL club its the Blues. Blues done it again by beeing out of the playoffs after a promising start but we are not giving up, we have some young players to come and in the games Ive been extremely happy to see how Stempniak and Backes been played at the Team US and how Mayers is doing with the Team Canada. Them havent done much points yet whats quite surprising but them will come,trust me .

Ive been at the IHWC boards for many years but many dont probably have seen me. Mainly at Finnish area and others Ive writed were Team US,general and a few posts for Team Russia.

What comes to my other hobbies this days, Im a huge sports and also a huge Motorsports fan. Everything goes for Sports and Motorsports was it baseball,volleyball,Handball,Basketball,Soccer or anything else Im always just watching the sports from TV. Also motorsports intrest me so much and some may notice me from the another motorsport forums if here are any fans. Also I play a lot of PS3 with different kind of games and sometimes Ill give a go for my collection of R/C cars. I also like about the Marvel comics,mainly X-Men.

Its long I know but I decided to give a bigger interview

Hi all

here's my introduction. i was a regular member of the other ihwc boards (under a different nick), and still think that it's a pity they are not enabled this year (does anybody know why?) 'cause they were sort of more "democratic" if sometimes full of overexcited folks. But this forum seems nice too and is much more civil, thanks to those who set it up.

I am a bit of a contrarian and often find myself rooting for the "bad" guys in (Hollywood) movies and likewise supporting "weaker" teams in hockey (sometimes even against my own national team). i guess that should pit me ultimately against TC and its supporters most of the time because they are the bes-*test*-('") but it's all right because it's all for fun and never anything personal.

I hope for alot of surprises and hopefully some major upsets this year. Cheers to that.

Balder:

"I used to be a Maple Leafs Fan" .. Whats that?

Once a Leaf always a Leaf, doesn't matter how shit they are. And at the moment the possitive thing is.. I can't get any worser.

PROUD TO BE ALWAYS THE SECOND BEST TEAM ON THE ICE
GO LEAFS GO

Guess maybe they were "democratic" because no one cared the past 2 years about them........ I remember them being quite heavily moderated the previous years.........many regulars were banned from there at least once if you remember all the * next to the user names........each * = a ban ......... in the last year they became so "democratic" that most serious posters actually gave up and left because of all trolls posting spam and flaming.........maybe we come down a bit heavy handed at the start but then we are all learning, this board was set up 2 days before the start of the games and a lot of members came very fast (in 3 days we had over 100 members) some arguments and flamings started right away and most of the mods are inexperienced of how to deal with things like that so mistakes happen...........we are finding our balance and I think apart from 1-2 people who don't know how to behave everyone else is happy to have a place to discuss hockey on...

Thanks for the compliment and welcome

Enjoy your stay and keep posting

btw........... what was your nick on the old board?

I blaim the fans really lol

Maybe if i was born in Canada (Toronto), i'd feel more close and all that crap. As a Euro that just picked a team to cheer for in the mid 90's, i just don't give a rats ass anymore. Feels pretty good actually to not have any favorite team lol

And ofc i missed 2 Swedish goals writing this lol. 6-0 now.

Queen Aurelia has entered the room . From Finland, 25, a professional traveller (meaning I work like an insane monkey for a while and then go somewhere for a loooong time ). I love Mutemath, anything green, languages and history.

I fell in love with ice hockey in 1994. I don't have memories of actually watching the IHWC then, but I know I did. And next year we hit the jackpot! It's been a long and silvery road after that... I don't know how to take hockey lightly so many a tear has been shed. The last ones just 12 months ago (but Torino 2006 was the worst EVER! I was devastated).

My favourite player is Saku Koivu. There's just no one like him. And Mikko Koivu is pretty classy too! In fact, had my parents picked another place to live in, I would've been his class mate! But it all turned out to be ok - since Ville Koistinen is in the team now and I DID go to school with him!

I also love Kimmo Timonen, Kari Lehtonen, Tuomo Ruutu... From other teams my favourites are Gaborik from Slovakia, Iginla from Canada, Lundqvist from Sweden, Hasek from Czech.

One of the coolest things ever was meeting Vesa Toskala in 199-something and getting his autograph on an Ilves flag.

I don't really have a favourite NHL team (apart from Montreal, I guess), so may the team with more Finns win .

Queen Aurelia is unique ;-)

But Mikko is better than Saku ;-) Even though I probably mad her royal highness angry now.

Hi,
Im nameless one. I have amnesia so I dont remember my name thats why I call myself this way. The only thing I know for sure is that I can speak czech so I should be of czech nationality and that I love hockey and that we will win gold medal this year. My favourite player is Roman Hamrlik and favourite clubs HC Zlin and Kometa Brno.

I'm just a Latvian guy, hoping that our team will win some of the big teams. I am a motorsport fan and I am watching Formula One, GP2, WRC, etc. all year long. I am also following hockey and football during the year. My favourite hockey team is ASK/Ogre (although I am from Riga) and my favourite NHL team is Colorado Avalanche (although Skrastins was recently traded to Florida).

I am wide asleep. I am late. I live in Prague. I am Canadian. 'Nuff said.

LOL........... you're late cause you've been asleep



Welcome Nice to see you here.

Hey everyone, I'm Sara. I'm 13 and I have been playing hockey for 8 or 9 years... I love it .