3266 - Kirkkonummi, Uusimaa, Finland

Jani Hakanpää hails from Kirkkonummi. He is a player for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. Previous NHL stops include Anaheim and Carolina, and he also took a couple of years off from the NHL to play for Oulun Kärpät of the Liiga.

In 2017-18, Hakanpää helped Oulun Kärpät win the
Kanada-malja as the Liiga champions. I hadn't heard of the Kanada-milja before so I was intrigued.

Kanada-malja means "Canada Bowl." It was donated by Canada's Finnish community in 1951 to be awarded to the champion of the Liiga playoffs. Like the NHL's Stanley Cup, the winning players and staff get their names added to the trophy. The current champion is Tappara.

In 1991 a copy of the Kanada-malja was created with the original trophy kept and displayed at Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo, or the Finnish Hockey Hall of Fame. The original cup is always presented to the champions, but then is returned to the Suomen Jääkiekkomuseo and a the copy is given to the team for the year.

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3584 - Blaine, Minnesota, United States of America

The sender was in Las Vegas recently and bought this card from The Mob Museum. The Mob Museum, officially known as the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, is located in downtown Las Vegas. It open in 2012. It features artifacts, stories, and the history of organized crime in the United States, but also the actions and initiatives by law enforcement to prevent such crimes. The museum is found at the former Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse, which was built in 1933. The quote on this card was from John Gotti. John Gotti (1940-2002) was the mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. After ordering the killing of Gambino boss Paul Catellano in 1985, he took over the family and led what was the United States' most powerful crime syndicate. He was known as The Teflon Don after three high profile trials in the 1980s resulted in acquittals. Later it was revealed that the trials had been tainted by jury tampering, juror misconduct, and...

3564 - Kassel, Hesse, Germany

A wonderful message on this card that translates to to those wh o can wait, everything comes with time.

2346 - Iwate, Iwate, Japan

Keita is a junior high science teacher in Iwate 岩手町. He sent me a photo of the Tokyo Sky Tower during a fireworks display. The Tokyo Sky Tower is a broadcasting and observation tower in Simide, a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis. It became the tallest structure in Japan in 2010. In 2011, when it was completed at a height of 634 meters, it became the tallest tower in the world, and the second tallest structure in the world, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai, UAE.

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