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Espoo Metro Areena
Espoo Metro Areena (known from 1999 to January 2009 as LänsiAuto Areena, and from 2009 to October 2015 as Barona Areena) is an arena in the Tapiola District of Espoo, Finland. It is part of the '' Tapiolan Urheilupuisto'' (Tapiola Sports Park). It was inaugurated in 1999 and holds 6,982 people for ice-hockey games or 8,582 for concerts. In late October and early November 2022, it served as the leading venue for the 2022 World Ringette Championships. Espoo Metro Areena has been primarily used for ice hockey and it was the home arena of the Espoo Blues of the Liiga from 1999 to 2016 and of Espoo United of the Mestis from 2016 until the franchise was dissolved in 2018. The arena is sponsored by Hesburger, Finland's largest fast food hamburger chain. See also *List of indoor arenas in Finland *List of indoor arenas in Nordic countries The following is an incomplete list of indoor arenas in Nordic countries whose capacity is at least 5,000. Current arenas {, class="wikitable sor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapiola
Tapiola (; sv, ) is a district of the municipality of Espoo on the south coast of Finland, and is one of the major urban centres of Espoo. It is located in the western part of Greater Helsinki. The name ''Tapiola'' is derived from '' Tapio'', who is the forest god of Finnish mythology, especially as expressed in the ''Kalevala''. Tapiola was largely constructed in the 1950s and 1960s by the Finnish housing foundation and was designed as a garden city. It is the location of the Espoo cultural centre, the Espoo Museum of Modern Art (EMMA), the Espoo city museum, and the Espoo City Theatre. According to the Finnish National Board of Antiquities, Tapiola was the largest and most valuable example of the 1960s construction ideologies in Finland. Its architecture and landscaping that combine urban living with nature have attracted tourists ever since. History After the Continuation War had ended in 1944 the entire country of Finland suffered from shortage of housing. In the Mosc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mestis
Mestis (from fi, Mestaruussarja, meaning 'Championship series') is the second-highest men's ice hockey league in Finland. The league was established by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association in 2000 to replace the I-divisioona ('First Division'). It had initially been the highest hockey league in Finland that could be reached through playing merits alone; the SM-liiga was closed (to teams being relegated or promoted) in 2000. After the 2004–05 season, KalPa was promoted to the SM-liiga, and the Liiga was re-opened in the 2008–09 season. Vaasan Sport was promoted in 2014–15, KooKoo was promoted in 2015–16, and Jukurit was promoted in 2016–17. Mestis, however, is an open league, with promotion and relegation between it and Suomi-sarja. However there will be no relegation during the 2020-21 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Clubs Winners Medaltable: Past participants * Jää-Kotkat, relegated to the Suomi-sarja in 2003. * Hyvinkään Ahmat, relegated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Venues Completed In 1999
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Espoo
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indoor Ice Hockey Venues In Finland
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Indoor(s) may refer to: *the interior of a building *Indoor environment, in building science, traditionally includes the study of indoor thermal environment, indoor acoustic environment, indoor light environment, and indoor air quality *Built environment, the human-made environment that provides the setting for human activity *Indoor athletics *indoor games and sports See also * * * Indore (other) * Inside (other) * The Great Indoors (other) The Great Indoors may refer to: * The Great Indoors (department store) * ''The Great Indoors'' (TV series) *"The Great Indoors", an episode of season 3 of ''Phineas and Ferb'' See also *The Great Outdoors (other) The Great Outdoors may re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indoor Arenas In Finland
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Indoor(s) may refer to: *the interior of a building *Indoor environment, in building science, traditionally includes the study of indoor thermal environment, indoor acoustic environment, indoor light environment, and indoor air quality *Built environment, the human-made environment that provides the setting for human activity *Indoor athletics *indoor games and sports See also * * * Indore (other) * Inside (other) * The Great Indoors (other) The Great Indoors may refer to: * The Great Indoors (department store) * ''The Great Indoors'' (TV series) *"The Great Indoors", an episode of season 3 of ''Phineas and Ferb'' See also *The Great Outdoors (other) The Great Outdoors may re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Indoor Arenas In Nordic Countries
The following is an incomplete list of indoor arenas in Nordic countries whose capacity is at least 5,000. Current arenas {, class="wikitable sortable" , - !Rank !Stadium !Capacity !City !Opened , - , 1, , Friends Arena , , 50,000 , , Stockholm , , 2012 , - , 2, , Parken Stadium , , 38.065 , , Copenhagen , , 1992 , - , 3, , Tele2 Arena, , 30,000 , , Stockholm, , 2013 , - , 4, , Telenor Arena , , 15,000 , , Bærum , , 2009 , - , 5, , Avicii Arena , , 13,850 , , Stockholm , , 1989 , - , 6, , Nokia Arena , , 13,455 , , Tampere , , 2021 , - , 7, , Helsinki Halli, , 13,349 , , Helsinki , , 1997 , - , 8, , Malmö Arena, , 12,600 , , Malmö, , 2008 , - , 9, , Royal Arena , , 12,500 , , Copenhagen , , 2017 , - , 10, , Scandinavium , , 12,044 , , Gothenburg , , 1971 , - , 11, , Jyske Bank Boxen , , 12,000 , , Herning , , 2010 , - , 12, , Gatorade Center , , 11,820 , , Turku , , 1990 , - , 13, , Håkons Hall , , 11,500 , , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Indoor Arenas In Finland
The following is a list of indoor arenas in Finland with a capacity of at least 1,000 spectators, most of the arenas in this list are for multi use proposes and are used for popular sports such as individual sports like karate, judo, boxing as well as team sports like ice hockey, curling, volleyball. Parts of the arenas also host many concerts and world tours. Currently in use Under proposition See also *List of football stadiums in Finland *List of indoor arenas by capacity References {{World topic, List of indoor arenas in, noredlinks=y, title=List of indoor arenas Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ... Indoor arenas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chain Restaurant
A chain store or retail chain is a retail outlet in which several locations share a brand, central management and standardized business practices. They have come to dominate the retail and dining markets and many service categories, in many parts of the world. A franchise retail establishment is one form of chain store. In 2005, the world's largest retail chain, Walmart, became the world's largest corporation based on gross sales. History In 1792, Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna established W.H. Smith as a news vending business in London that would become a national concern in the mid-19th century under the management of their grandson William Henry Smith. The world's oldest national retail chain, the firm took advantage of the railway boom during the Industrial Revolution by opening news-stands at railway stations beginning in 1848. The firm, now called WHSmith, had more than 1,400 locations as of 2017. In the U.S., chain stores likely began with J. Stiner & Company, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fast Food
Fast food is a type of mass-produced food designed for commercial resale, with a strong priority placed on speed of service. It is a commercial term, limited to food sold in a restaurant or store with frozen, preheated or precooked ingredients and served in packaging for take-out/take-away. Fast food was created as a commercial strategy to accommodate large numbers of busy commuters, travelers and wage workers. In 2018, the fast food industry was worth an estimated $570 billion globally. The fastest form of "fast food" consists of pre-cooked meals which reduce waiting periods to mere seconds. Other fast food outlets, primarily hamburger outlets such as McDonald's, use mass-produced, pre-prepared ingredients (bagged buns and condiments, frozen beef patties, vegetables which are prewashed, pre-sliced, or both; etc.) and cook the meat and french fries fresh, before assembling "to order". Fast food restaurants are traditionally distinguished by the drive-through. Outlets may ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hesburger
Hesburger (colloquially known in Finland as ''Hese'' and in Estonia as ''Hess'') is a fast food chain based in Turku, Finland. Today, it is the largest hamburger restaurant chain in Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with a market share larger than that of U.S.-based rival McDonald's. It further operates in Ukraine, Germany and Bulgaria. Hesburger primarily purveys fast foods such as hamburgers, fries, salads and desserts. The company name is derived from the nickname of the founder, Heikki "Hese" Salmela. The company also operates ''Hesecafes,'' which sell pastries and specialty coffees, as well as hot dog outlets. Some restaurants provide car wash services. History The chain's history reaches back to 1966, when 20-year old Heikki Salmela opened a street food kiosk in Naantali. He later opened the first Hesburger in 1980 on Kristiinankatu in Turku, which became the first element of the first fast food restaurant chain in Finland. In the 1980s the chain grew fast. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liiga
The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagues of the Champions Hockey League and currently allocated five spots - the maximum number - based on success in previous editions. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice Hockey Association, but the league and association have an agreement of cooperation. SM is a common abbreviation for ''Suomen mestaruus'', "Finnish championship". The SM-liiga formerly had a system of automatic promotion and relegation in place between itself and the Mestis, the second highest level of competition in Finland, but the automatic system was ended in 2000. The league was opened in 2005 and allowed KalPa to get a promotion. In 2009, a new system was i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
