Ville Nieminen Quotations

We have a special feeling in the locker room.

Now the zone is four feet bigger, so you really can't go too far to the point, because that is going to open up a seam. So we were looking for that fine line.

Obviously, if you were born in Finland, you want to play Sweden. That's the ultimate. The situation can't get any better, can't get any more exciting.

Obviously, if you're born in Finland you want to play Sweden and the other way around. That's the ultimate. It can't get more exciting.

He gives us a chance to win every night.

I think the Calgary Flames are bad losers, let's put it that way. I think you have to be a bad loser, and we showed that again.

Our plan was to kill the game in the neutral zone. I'm not saying we killed the Russians. But we killed the game in the neutral zone. That was our chance to play against them.

Playing against Sweden, well, you could not get a better situation. Unless you were born in Finland or Sweden, you would not be able to figure out what it means.

I tell you one thing, I will be well rested and almost arrested.

We have a group of guys who wanted to play so badly for Finland. The guys who came in the second and third waves have been the energy of our hockey club.

We're losing a big cannon from the point, a big guy in front of the net in our zone as well.

We kill the game in the neutral zone -- if we didn't do that, the scores would be the other way. Those guys who got named the second and third wave add excitement and energy to our room.

We killed the game. We killed their excitement.

We need to slow them down, take their time and space and their excitement away. Their team is scary, one on one, so we need to outman them everywhere and play really well in the in the neutral zone so they can't use it as a runway.

We need to slow them down, take their time and space and their excitement away.

We went forward by two goals during the first period. At that moment, we should have been more precise and attentive in defending the result. On the contrary, the USA was able to score a couple goals and get the tie. We had to start again. And in the end, they were able again to come back. But fortunately, we won.

The situation for us or Sweden can't get any better. Can't get more exciting.

The ultimate if you were born in Finland ... or in Sweden.