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Thursday, February 21, 1980
Fast Finn
CHRIS TODD/Kansan staff
Moving smoothly past his opponents, Miki Ojima, center, looks for his right wing for the goal. Helsinki, Finland.
senior, scored five goals to lead us to a 13-8 win in a pick-up game Monday at Iceland South lee arena in Kansas City.
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It is an odd sight, witnessed by no one but a couple of rink rats. In the dimly-lit arena, dingy white walls preserves the silence while the grinder drums roll. Graders would for a sand-lot basketball game.
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But this game is ice hockey. The first player chosen is younger than most. He is stocky, and a shock of blond hair shows from under his shiny black helmet.
And, as the game begins, the player proves his worth. He scores three goals in the first period, and two more during the game as his team wins wisely. 134-8.
"I got my first pair of skates when I was six," Ojala says. "From then I spent whole days on the outdoor ice rink. In the winter when we had a chance to go to the school, I always used to go there and play as long as I could before it'd get dark.
"I really enjoyed that."
OJALA OBVIOUSLY still enjoys hockey. It is the one connection he has with his homeland since he came to the United States and the University of Kansas last August.
Ojigai, who studied electrical engineering Ojigai, who studied electrical engineering Technology before arrival in Kansas, said that he originally planned to stay at KU only a year and then return to Fresno to finish it
Ojilha, who 17-year-old sister Katri is a high school exchange student in Lebanon, Indiana, came to KU because the University awarded him an academic scholarship.
"But right now I'm seriously considering getting my bachelor's here, then going back to get my master's," he said.
"I didn't know anything about Kansas when I came," he said. "I hoped they would have (a hockey team), but I didn't know."
HU KASN't put a game on ice for two years now, so汕澳 was left in the cold. Born in Kansas City, Kan., with friends every Monday night to play in pick-up games with
"I heard about these people before Christmas," he says, "but I couldn't go because I didn't have any of my equipment here."
But over Christmas break Ojala went back to Finland to visit his family, and returned toting his hockey gear.
Oijara's gear, as well as his skill, distinguished him on the rink. Some of the players wear National Hockey League jerseys. Others wear St. Louis Blues, and the Los Angeles Kings. Others wear the local jerseys of factory-sponsored teams. Oijara wears a plain, buttered yellow jersey, and pants that are white, the national colors of Finland.
Yet his skates are the most noticeable
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part of his uniform. They are bright red, like a boxer's gloves. The other players wear brown or black skates.
OJALA GREW up in the tiny village of Jojana on outdoor courts. He played hecky on him when he was 14. Then his father, a veterinarian, and his uncle took him to town of 6,000 people in southwestern Finland.
The red skates flash as Ojala darts through a covey of other players who seem to be skating in battle. Coming out of the hole, the two opponents were contested shot on goal. The puck his home.
"During those years, I hardly played at all," he said. "here"There was really no place to play and I didn't know anybody."
Music and studies occupied most of his time in high school. Someday, Ojala said he would study at the University of studies with his love for music by working as an electrical engineer in the record industry.
High schools in Finland are much tougher than the secondary school system in the United States, Ojala said.
"The competition is really amazing nowadays. So, you've really got to be working hard if you want to go to college," he said.
Ojala said a common college admission examination was given annually to high school seniors in Finland. Students pre-departure from their three years of bachelor's
"Kids really don't have so much fun in school (in Finland). We don't have sports sponsored by the school, we don't have parties and homecomings and stuff like that," he said. "It's much duller. You've got a lot of work on the class and study hard—'that's our school.'"
BY THE TIME Finnish high school students know three languages, he said. Ojala knows English and Swedish, the two official languages of Finland, plus English and a smartering of them.
But, none of these languages are needed once Ojala steps out onto the ice. Although other players yell from the players box on the ice, he is always playing with silent intensity. When he wants the puck, he tucks his stick rapidly on the ice. Once, disgusted with himself, he snuck his stick hard against the ice. The players take it softly, and for the fun of it, take their short seriously.
It is sport for the sake of sport, and it is what Oitala is accustomed to.
OFTEN, THE only sounds are the scraping of skates, the clatter of sticks on the ice, and the solid thump of the puck against the boards.
"College sports aren't a big thing in the South," he said. "Money, so it's hard sometimes to keep it up. We would hope we could get some support from the (Finnish) school, but we get hardly
"It's not really like college teams here.
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"Not too many people are interested at all. It's not like Allen Field House, with 15,000 people watching basketball every Saturday night," he said.
And in Finland, he says, nobody comes to see the games.
OJALA'S UNIVERSITY team in Finland plays in an annual tournament against the French team. The Norwegian team. The tournament is perhaps the only one of its kind between universities from the Scandinavian countries, yet Ojala says it was "not really a big game."
He says the players from the technical universities of the three countries play just to have fun, to see one another again, and to go out a for beer to renew a friendship.
After the game, the players dress without showering, because the showers are foul. They file slowly out of the rink, rehiking the game. It is past midnight, and as Ojala steps out to the cold night air, he passes through the gate. Home of Johnston County Auratee Hooker.
THERE ALSO is a spirit of reunion among the players at the Iceland South rink. Though some of the players are baldish and portly and would never be mistaken for young Nordic students, they share the same fervor for hockey as the Scandinavian team. Because there is plenty of banter, and on the rink the competition is friendly, if determined.
And so Mikko Oijala has found the camaraderie of amateur hockey that he knew in his homeland—found it on the edge of a Midwest cowtown.
It's a long way from Finland. In some ways.
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