Childs' play (Monday - Sunday)

Childs' play (Monday - Sunday), a photo by ausfi on Flickr.

The Finnish team gathered itself and won the bronze game against USA 5 - 1. The usual goal keeper, who had been absent in the Silver match, did not let any US pucks through. I had been so unsure about the outcome that I did not watch the game so I missed the excitement. It was wonderful mostly for the reason that Teemu Selänne, 43, made two goals out of five, one of which was the winning goal. These were his fifth olympic games and also the last.In addition, he was named the whole
Tournament's Most Valuable Player (MVP).

These two cartoons are so ingenious and brilliant that I have to laugh every tIme I look at them.

They were designed by artists in Swedish Aftonbladet in 2011. That year the ice hockey finals for the World Championships were in Bratislava. The match was between Sweden and Finland. Finland had some promising, quite young players in the team, so they called the players baby lions. This gave the idea to make a baby version of the lion in the Finnish logo and plant a pacifier in its mouth. "It will be child's play," was the headline.
The paper had also the sentence: "Fear Finland, now big brother will snatch the gold!"

This probably enraged the Finns to such a measure that they beat Sweden 6 - 1. Next day Aftonbladet released that same baby lion, but this time triumphant and angry, gnawing at the three crowns of Sweden's logo.. The headline read now: "Damn, it was child's play."