[Alberta's Child]

Finland has a reputation for being a difficult hockey team to assess on the international stage. They're certainly one of the top countries in the world, and they've got plenty of Olympic and IIHF world championship medals to prove it. I think they're currently #2 in the IIHF world rankings, after Sweden.

And yet Finland has never won an Olympic gold medal in hockey. Go figure.

[dfwgator]

I still think we’re better off with a team of amateurs that spend a year before the Games learning to play together...You can’t just put a team of all-stars together in two weeks and expect them to gel.