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Teemu Selanne has a special place in every Finnish hockey fan’s heart. He was a frightening goalscorer, both in Team Finland and in the NHL, and only eleven players in the history of the NHL have scored more goals than him (684).
As a player from Finland, Selanne shouldn’t be the biggest fan of the big rivals from the west, Sweden, and they’ve had lots of brutal battles on the ice over the years.
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That’s why it’s such a massive surprise that Selanne, Finland’s most prominent hockey legend, actually has a Swedish flag tattooed on his body. It sounds like a fake story, but Selanne has confirmed it.
During a bachelor party, Selanne got blindfolded by his friends and dragged into a tattoo studio.
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The tattoo artist got nervous seeing Selanne lying there, so when he asked for a Finnish flag to be tattooed on his foot, the artist accidentally used blue and yellow colors instead of blue and white.
” He was like,’ I can’t believe it, but when I saw who it was, I couldn’t think straight. Get back in a week, and we’ll sort it out’,” he says.
But Selanne never came back.
” I think it’s a really funny story.”