About me and ice hockey
Welcome to my website. I'm a Finnish hockey fan who travels annually to lower division World Championships and I also collect game worn national team hockey jerseys. I made my first hockey trips in February 2009 to Oslo, Norway and and later in April to Dunedin, New Zealand. In Norway I witnessed the final stage of 2010 Vancouver Winter Games ice hockey qualification tournament and the host Norway won the group and spot to the Olympics. The other teams were Denmark, Kazakhstan and France.
Teams in New Zealand were not the most famous hockey national teams or how does a pool consisting of New Zealand, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Luxembourg and Mongolia sound. I was very disappointed when the Mongolian team didn't arrive. The reason was that the players were not given visas to enter New Zealand.
Later I've been to Estonia, Croatia and Iceland to spectate the Division II World Championships. In 2012 and 2013 I was watching few World Championship games in Helsinki, Finland. Before the 2013 tournament I visited Budapest, Hungary for Division I group A World Championship and 2014 I returned to my roots and visited Luxembourg for another Division III World Championships. Later I've been to tournaments in The Netherlands, Lithuania, again Iceland, Luxembourg and Estonia and in 2023 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Please take a look at the short stories about the tournaments and the photos I've taken. You can find them under the "World Championships" tab.
The tournament in New Zealand, and especially team Luxembourg, made me interested in the national team jerseys. The awesome flame pattern circling around the jersey and the sleeves and the huge lion crest made that in my opinion the most beautiful national team jersey in the world.
It took me 3 years after starting jersey collecting to finally get the jersey which made me start this project. It's the jersey in the left upper corner.
My mission is to collect a game worn (preferably goalie) jersey of every (preferably) senior national team playing in IIHF World Championships. At the moment my priorities are in the lower division teams but I will also consider the elite WC teams if I find some interesting jerseys.
At the moment there are 63 different national teams in my collection and over 100 individual jerseys.
You will find the jerseys by clicking the different "IIHF jerseys" tabs.
If you could help me finding the missing jerseys, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in buying or trading jersey(s), you can find the available jerseys under the "For sale" tab. When it comes to trades, I am looking for national teams I don't already have, or you have an interesting jersey of a team I already have.
Currently I have no jerseys for sale.
Updated: September 23rd 2023
Teams in New Zealand were not the most famous hockey national teams or how does a pool consisting of New Zealand, Ireland, Greece, Turkey, Luxembourg and Mongolia sound. I was very disappointed when the Mongolian team didn't arrive. The reason was that the players were not given visas to enter New Zealand.
Later I've been to Estonia, Croatia and Iceland to spectate the Division II World Championships. In 2012 and 2013 I was watching few World Championship games in Helsinki, Finland. Before the 2013 tournament I visited Budapest, Hungary for Division I group A World Championship and 2014 I returned to my roots and visited Luxembourg for another Division III World Championships. Later I've been to tournaments in The Netherlands, Lithuania, again Iceland, Luxembourg and Estonia and in 2023 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Please take a look at the short stories about the tournaments and the photos I've taken. You can find them under the "World Championships" tab.
The tournament in New Zealand, and especially team Luxembourg, made me interested in the national team jerseys. The awesome flame pattern circling around the jersey and the sleeves and the huge lion crest made that in my opinion the most beautiful national team jersey in the world.
It took me 3 years after starting jersey collecting to finally get the jersey which made me start this project. It's the jersey in the left upper corner.
My mission is to collect a game worn (preferably goalie) jersey of every (preferably) senior national team playing in IIHF World Championships. At the moment my priorities are in the lower division teams but I will also consider the elite WC teams if I find some interesting jerseys.
At the moment there are 63 different national teams in my collection and over 100 individual jerseys.
You will find the jerseys by clicking the different "IIHF jerseys" tabs.
If you could help me finding the missing jerseys, please don't hesitate to contact me. If you are interested in buying or trading jersey(s), you can find the available jerseys under the "For sale" tab. When it comes to trades, I am looking for national teams I don't already have, or you have an interesting jersey of a team I already have.
Currently I have no jerseys for sale.
Updated: September 23rd 2023