Kasperi Kapanen and Team Finland invited Russia over to Hartwall arena for the gold medal game of the WJC, and wow the Finns know how to throw a party.
In our last episode, we learned about the overtime heroics of Niklas Hagman in 1998. What I left out of that story was that the coach of the Finnish team in 1998 was Hannu Kapanen, Kasperi Kapanen's grandfather. He was there today to watch his grandson try to repeat as a Finnish champion.
Russian coach Valeri Bragin put Ilya Samsonov in net for the semifinal, surprising many, and he won the game for them.