Tens of thousands of Finnish ice hockey fans gathered by Helsinki's Olympic Stadium on Monday evening to celebrate the national team clinching the world championship the night before.
Enthusiastic fans were seen waving Finnish flags in a sea of people that overflowed to a granite hillside.
They were packed 'like herring', according to Swedish-language daily Hufvudstadsbladet.
As they celebrated the big win, several musical acts took the stage until the Lions team members made a boisterous appearance. The team got a heroes' welcome earlier in the day, with their plane receiving an Air Force fighter jet escort as they came home.
Fans Sara Fagerholm and Jonna Kotivesi told HBL that Sunday night's victory came as a surprise to them.
"We hadn't followed the matches that much. I saw on social media that we had won and went straight to the Market Square. It felt great to be in the middle of the action," Fagerholm told the paper.
Musical acts Arttu Viskari, JVG, Haloo Helsinki and Käärijä performed ahead of the entertainment headliner Linda Lampenius and Pete Parkkonen, who played their Eurovision entry Liekinheitin while wearing matching white-and-blue hockey jerseys.
"You rarely get to be proud of anything in Finland, but this is something you should be really proud of," fan Marie Staudinger told the paper.
However, while the event was a national celebration, it was not covered by public broadcaster Yle, which has traditionally covered such significant gatherings.
Instead, coverage was only available on the commercial channels TV5 or HBO Max, newspaper Iltalehti noted.
It asked Yle's sports chief Joose Palonen why.
He explained that the hockey association's media partner this year is Warner Bros. Discovery.
"They hold the broadcasting rights," Palonen told the paper.
The media behemoth holds the rights until 2032.
Food queue grows after shutdown
The often-long food queue in the capital's Alppiharju neighbourhood has grown after a large food bank in Myllypuro shut down at the end of April, according to Helsingin Sanomat.
The queue for the Hursti foundation's handouts stretched from the corner of Helsinginkatu and Fleminginkatu all the way to Kustaankatu, the paper explained.
The charity distributes food on Wednesdays and Fridays. One day, after handing out groceries for more than an hour and a half, there were nearly 1,200 people in the queue, HS reported.
Some have come to pick up food bags from the other side of town. Tapio Palm came all the way from Myllypuro, according to the paper.
Palm previously worked for a metal company but severe asthma cut his career short. He has used food queues for about 20 years and told the paper that he goes to food aid centres across the metropolitan area. Palm also volunteered at the Myllypuro distribution centre for a while before it closed.
Myllypuro was the largest food distribution outfit in eastern Helsinki and had operated for decades, but it was forced to shut down due to a lack of donated food.
Three grocery stores that used to give food to the Myllypuro centre have since switched to Hursti, the foundation's executive director Sini Hursti told HS.
However, the cost of reaching central Helsinki from Myllypuro can be challenging for people on limited incomes, the paper noted.
A report by Statistics Finland last year showed nearly one million people in the country were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Palm told the paper that he thinks Finland's welfare state is "still doing quite well", but said more government cuts could cause something to "crack".
"Hunger will make a person do anything."
"Poverty causes uncertainty above all else," Palm said. "You don't know what your situation will be in a year."
Rising stamp prices
The cost of a domestic 'forever' postage stamp rose to three euros on Tuesday, commercial broadcaster MTV reported, citing news agency STT.
That reflected a 25-cent price hike. At the same time, a Christmas greeting card stamp has risen from €1.70 to €1.80.
Postal firm Posti has explained that the increases are due to rising per-unit costs, as people are sending fewer cards and letters.
It said the amount of paper mail Posti delivers has decreased by nearly 75 percent over the past ten years.