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Åland Autonomy Day

The parliament of the Åland Isalnds first met 100 years ago today. Source.

Korvensuu

Source.

Woodsat

A Finnish company is preparing a cubesat to test the potential of wood as a building material for spacecraft. Wood is making a comeback: there are plans for wooden skyscrapers and windows made of transparent wood. The ancient Bajorans used timber in their spacecraft. Source. This post is sponsored by wood.

Lotta Svärd Manga

Read Lotta Svärd: Women of War, by Setz.

Jussi

The top film prize in Finland is Jussi, made of gypsum. Source.

Finnish Classics Illustrated Comics

Classics Illustrated Comics were published in Finnish too. Again, most of them were translations of the American versions. But there were also a few based on the writings of Zachris Topelius, the 19th-century Finnish nationalist. Source. See here for a discussion in Finnish.

Oulun Kärpät in the Champions Hockey League

Kärpät and Skellefteå at some kind of non-red-armband event in 2017. Source.

The Champions Hockey League group stage wraps up today. The top two from each group advance to the Round of 16. The final Group E games are:

Kärpät [4 - 4] Skellefteå [Kärpät wins the shootout.]

Grenoble [1 - 3] Bern

[Final Group E standings:

11    Skellefteå

11    Bern

11    Kärpät

  3    Grenoble

Skellefteå and Bern advance because each did better head-to-head against Kärpät. I think I see how that works:

Skellefteå earned 4 points off Bern. Bern earned 2 points off Skellefteå. Skellefteå finishes higher than Bern.

Skellefteå earned 4 points of Kärpät. Kärpät earned 2 points off Skellefteå. Skellefteå finishes higher than Kärpät.

Bern earned 3 points off Kärpät. Kärpät earned 3 points off Bern. Bern scored 4 goals against Kärpät. Kärpät scored 4 goals against Bern. But Bern scored 3 goals against Kärpät in one game, and Kärpät only scored 2 goals against Bern in any one game, so Bern finish higher than Kärpät.

The draw for the next round is Friday.]

Oulon Kärpät in the Champions Hockey League so far:

2008-09

GS    2008/10/8      Eisbären Berlin 3 - 2 Kärpät

GS    2008/10/22    Kärpät 0 - 2 Metallurg Magnitogorsk

GS    2008/11/12    Kärpät 2 - 2 Eisbären Berlin (Eisbären won SO.)

GS    2008/11/19    Metallurg Magnitogorsk 3 - 1 Kärpät

2014-15

GS    2014/8/21      Liberec 3 - 4 Kärpät

GS    2014/8/23      Košice 1 - 2 Kärpät

GS    2014/9/5        Kärpät 2 - 2 Kölner Haie (Kärpät won SO.)

GS    2014/9/7        Kölner Haie 3 - 2 Kärpät

GS    2014/9/24      Kärpät 3 - 2 Košice

GS    2014/10/8      Kärpät 3 - 1 Liberec

 16    2014/11/4       Kärpät 3 - 1 Vienna Capitals

 16    2014/11/11     Vienna Capitals 2 - 3 Kärpät

QF    2014/12/2      SaiPa 0 - 2 Kärpät

QF    2014/12/9      Kärpät 3 - 2 SaiPa

SF    2015/1/13      Frölunda 4 - 2 Kärpät

SF    2015/1/20      Kärpät 3 - 2 Frölunda

2015-16

GS    2015/8/20      Krefeld Pinguine 0 - 2 Kärpät

GS    2015/8/22      Vienna Capitals 0 - 2 Kärpät

GS    2015/8/27      Kärpät 4 - 1 Krefeld Pinguine

GS    2015/9/5        Kärpät 4 - 0 Vienna Capitals

 32    2015/9/22      Düsseldorfer EG 0 - 2 Kärpät

 32    2015/10/6      Kärpät 3 - 0 Düsseldorfer EG

 16    2015/11/3      Sparta Prague 4 - 2 Kärpät

 16    2015/11/10    Kärpät 4 - 1 Sparta Prague

QF    2015/12/1      Espoo Blues 2 - 0 Kärpät

QF    2015/12/8      Kärpät 5 - 1 Espoo Blues

SF    2016/1/12      Lukko Rauma 2 - 3 Kärpät

SF    2016/1/19      Kärpät 2 - 2 Lukko Rauma

  F    2016/2/9        Kärpät 1 - 2 Frölunda

2016-17

GS    2016/8/16      Vítkovice 2 - 4 Kärpät

GS    2016/8/16      Krefeld Pinguine 0 - 2 Kärpät

GS    2016/8/26      Kärpät 1 - 0 Vítkovice

GS    2016/9/10      Kärpät 5 - 3 Krefeld Pinguine

 32    2016/10/4      Sparta Prague 1 - 1 Kärpät

 32    2016/10/11    Kärpät 0 - 1 Sparta Prague

2018-19

GS    2018/8/31      Kärpät 4 - 0 Dragons de Rouen

GS    2018/9/2        Kärpät 9 - 3 Nürnberg Ice Tigers

GS    2018/9/7        Dragons de Rouen 2 - 4 Kärpät

GS    2018/9/9        Nürnberg Ice Tigers 4 - 3 Kärpät

GS    2018/10/9      Kärpät 3 - 2 Mountfield

GS    2018/10/17    Mountfield 3 - 4 Kärpät

 16    2018/11/6      ZSC Lions 4 - 4 Kärpät

 16    2018/11/20    Kärpät 3 - 2 ZSC Lions

QF    2018/12/4      Red Bull Salzburg 3 - 2 Kärpät

QF    2018/12/11    Kärpät 1 - 1 Red Bull Salzburg

Whenever I see the Champions Hockey League logo I think of CIL Paints.

Ässät versus Lukko 2018-19

Ässät score, October 13th, 2018. Source.

How did Ässät and Lukko fare in head-to-head action this season?

2018/9/14        Lukko 2 - 3 Ässät

2018/10/13      Ässät 5 - 4 Lukko

2018/11/23      Lukko 2 - 3 Ässät

2018/12/28      Ässät 0 - 1 Lukko

2019/2/1          Lukko 2 - 0 Ässät

2019/3/2          Ässät 5 - 4 Lukko

Despite these results Lukko are by far the better team, finishing the reguar season [5th to 8th], while Ässät were dead last.

Ässät versus Lukko in the 1970s

Ässät Pori, Finnish masters 1971 and 1978. Source.

1979-80

    1979/10/7      Ässät 6 - 5 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1979/11/11    Lukko 2 - 10 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1979/12/9      Ässät 10 - 7 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1980/3/9        Lukko 6 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

1978-79

    1978/10/8      Lukko 1 - 4 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1978/11/16    Ässät 5 - 6 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1978/12/12    Lukko 7 - 7 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1979/2/4        Ässät 9 - 4 Lukko    Runkosarja

    Ässät finished first in the Runkosarja, but lost in the playoff final to Tappara.

1977-78

    1977/10/16    Ässät 5 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1977/12/8      Lukko 6 - 3 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1978/1/12      Ässät 17 - 3 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1978/2/19      Lukko 7 - 4 Ässät    Runkosarja

    Ässät won the playoffs. Lukko finished ninth in the Runkosarja and were obliged to enter the league qualifying tournament, which they won, allowing them to remain in the SM Liiga.

1976-77

    1976/10/14    Ässät 7 - 2 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1976/11/7      Lukko 3 - 8 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1977/1/2        Ässät 9 - 4 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1977/2/6        Lukko 3 - 2 Ässät    Runkosarja

    Lukko finished ninth but won the league qualifying tournament to remain in SM Liiga.

1975-76

    1975/10/16    Lukko 4 - 3 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1975/10/23    Ässät 4 - 1 Lukko    Runkosarja

    1975/12/14    Lukko 3 - 4 Ässät    Runkosarja

    1976/3/11      Ässät 6 - 3 Lukko    Runkosarja

    This was the inaugural season of SM Liiga. Playoffs were introduced.

1974-75

    1974/10/31    Ässät 2 - 2 Lukko     SM-sarja

    1974/11/14    Lukko 4 - 1 Ässät    SM-sarja

    1975/1/28      Ässät 3 - 6 Lukko    SM-sarja

    1975/3/13      Lukko 4 - 3 Ässät    SM-sarja

1973-74

    1973/10/7      Lukko 2 - 7 Ässät    SM-sarja

    1973/11/30    Ässät 4 - 3 Lukko    SM-sarja

    1974/1/11      Lukko 6 - 6 Ässät     SM-sarja

    1974/2/26      Ässät 5 - 8 Lukko    SM-sarja

1972-73

    Lukko played in the tier II Suomensarja.

1971-72

    1971/10/10    Ässät 2 - 2 Lukko     SM-sarja, first round

    1971/11/25    Lukko 2 - 1 Ässät    SM-sarja, first round

    1972/2/27      Ässät 2 - 3 Lukko    SM-sarja, qualification round

    1972/3/5        Lukko 1 - 3 Ässät    SM-sarja, qualification round

    Lukko were relegated.

1970-71

    1970/11/3      Ässät 4 - 3 Lukko    SM-sarja, first round

    1971/1/21      Lukko 3 - 3 Ässät    SM-sarja, first round

    Ässät made the split, but Lukko did not. Ässät won the final round.

(I have taken games results for 1975-76 and later from the SM Liiga website and fi.wikipedia. SM Sarja results are from UrheiluSuomi.com.)

Olives and Contraceptives

Visit this European Union website to find out what products Canada imports from Europe, and where exactly they come from. For example, we get olives and contraceptives from Turku. I did not know that.