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Finland is such a powerhouse, maybe not in the actual amount of IIHF hardware but at least in my heart, that we should divide Finland into four regional teams. There are several regions that have a very distinct culture and accent, so it would be actually rather natural. We could have a Team Southern Finland, consisting of the whole Helsinki capital region as well as the coastline all the way up to the old capital city Turku. Tampere as the hockey capital of Finland deserves its own team. Team Tampere  would include the whole Greater Tampere area. The third team would be Team Central Finland, consisting of the lake region of Finland and cities like Jyväskylä and Kuopio. The fourth team would naturally be Team Lapland, which would include everything that’s on the map above Kuopio, although not everything in there is technically part of Lapland. I don’t know if this would make IIHF any more interesting to anyone else but the Finns, but at least Finnish geography and culture would become way better known around the hockey world.
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