World Cup: 2016 World Cup — Team Finland

[Conspiracy Theorist]

It would be funny if Aho and Laine played in the World Cup and later in the WJC same year.

 

[CanadaIsIrrelevant]

Where is Puljujärvi?

 

[Bear12Good]

Where is JUUSO HIETANEN?

 

[FiLe]

Where is Puljujärvi?

Right where he was expected to be. Which is somewhere not on this team.

E: Same for Hietanen.

 

[FinPanda]

Where is JUUSO HIETANEN?

Thank god he is not in the team. Lepistö is by far the best Finnish D in Europe.

 

[Mestaruus]

Great choices by Marjamäki.

Where is Puljujärvi?

It was pretty close that one of Aho or Laine wouldn't have made it so it's understandable there's no Pulju.

Where is JUUSO HIETANEN?

I think he was the last defender to be cut most likely.

 

[Lempo]

Maalivahdit:

Tuukka Rask

Pekka Rinne

Mikko Koskinen

Puolustajat:

Esa Lindell

Olli Määttä

Rasmus Ristolainen

Sami Vatanen

Sami Lepistö

Jyrki Jokipakka

Ville Pokka

Hyökkääjät:

Aleksander Barkov

Joonas Donskoi

Valtteri Filppula

Mikael Granlund

Jussi Jokinen

Mikko Koivu

Leo Komarov

Lauri Korpikoski

Jori Lehterä

Teuvo Teräväinen

Erik Haula

Patrik Laine

http://www.iltalehti.fi/jaakiekko/2016052721632859_jk.shtml

Dude. Are you dissing Sebastian Aho or is the mistake of his missing Iltalehti's and they ninja-edited him in after your posting this?

 

[Lempo]

Anyway. We will naturally throw our games anyway just to leave the NHL with egg on their face as the Young Guns go in blaze of glory against their own countries in the ending games, right?

 

[Zamuz]

I like Marjamäki even more

No Hietanen, wohoo. Somebody has balls to not select this guy. Great young team we have, I like it.

 

[fouba]

Dude. Are you dissing Sebastian Aho or is the mistake of his missing Iltalehti's and they ninja-edited him in after your posting this?

Ninja-edit! I love Aho and think he was easier choice to team than Laine

 

[Lempo]

Donskoi in, Salomäki out. Is this like a betting tip who they expect to have their tummy already full after the Stanley Cup final?

edit: oh. It's a terribly bad betting tip, I just realize.

 

[tade]

Great nomination! Well done, Finland. Young and exciting team to watch.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

1.
Laine-Barkov-Jokinen
Ristolainen/Määttä-Vatanen

2.
Granlund-Koivu-Teräväinen
Määttä/Lepistö-Lepistö/Ristolainen

3.
Aho-Lehterä-Donskoi
Lindell-Jokipakka

4.
Komarov-Haula-Korpikoski
7th Pokka 13th Filppula

#1 Rinne
#2 Rask

 

[FinPanda]

Donskoi was great with Jokinen and Barkov last time.

 

[TheFinnishTrap]

Eh... Laine might get a bit overmatched in this tournament, but we'll see how he fares after a healthy summer.

 

[Periwinkle]

I'm not so sure about Pokka but I love the young team -angle. Practice for the 2018 Olympics. (I'm going to give this tournament a benefit of a doubt but if we won't get NHL players in 2018 I'm not going to watch the World Cup one after this one)

 

[Ippenator]

Great start for Marjamäki. Every single one of his last choices were exactly how I would have chosen. So now I have a quite good feeling about the team. Of course it was pretty much a no brainer to have Laine and Aho in the team. But I saw here also a worrying amount of people having a very silly idea of Rantanen being in the team over Aho, which is really lame thinking. Please wake up and smell the coffee, who thought like that. Aho is really miles ahead of Rantanen. The skill and the confidence that Aho has is really amazing. Rantanen has only physical strength over Aho. In everything else he is clearly worse than Aho. Even the smaller rink is not a basis to choose Rantanen over Aho, as the skill difference between them is still that big.

The only player I really question at the moment is Teräväinen, as he had a really bad ending to his season, because of injuries. I doubt quite much that he will be in good enough condition when World Cup starts. If he is not fully fit by September, I would like to still see Pulju in the team (only if he is fully fit by then of course), or then Rantanen, if even Pulju is not fully fit. There's enough of grinding and defensive power with Komarov, Haula and Korpikoski already in the team, so absolutely no use to take Salomäki or Pakarinen over much more skilled and offensively gifted youngsters.

But anyway, way to go Late! Well chosen!

I btw still absolutely believe that without his injuries (and operation) at the end of the season, Pulju would have been in the WHC team, instead of Pulkkinen probably. Would have been a much better player in that tournament, if he was fit. Well we anyway saw there that Pulkkinen has really no use in the tougher games. Most likely he will not have a good NHL career, although I very much hoped he would have. Sad but true that he is way too one sided player, with practically his slapper and onetimer as his only strengths.

 

[xxxx]

I like your team. I fell in love with your game at this years' World Juniors, and the team at the worlds with Koivu, Barkov, Laine, or Aho was playing so good again. Can't wait to see your best team, and on NHL ice. Will be fun.

And btw, good for Laine!

 

[canswetoxic]

I like your team. I fell in love with your game at this years' World Juniors, and the team at the worlds with Koivu, Barkov, Laine, or Aho was playing so good again. Can't wait to see your best team, and on NHL ice. Will be fun.

And btw, good for Laine!

trapping game wouldn't work any longer

 

[King 88]

Would rather have Salomäki than Korpikoski but that is just small change nothing surprising in the team.

 

[Ippenator]

trapping game wouldn't work any longer

Then Sweden will probably suck in the tournament.

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Then Sweden will probably suck in the tournament.

They need to score also and not go Talbot-mode.

 

[Jussi]

Meh. Should have just sent Liiga players as one giant troll team.

 

[ijuka]

Predicted offensive lines:

1.
Granlund - Koivu - Haula
2.
Laine - Barkov - Donskoi
3.
Jokinen - Filppula - Aho
4.
Korpikoski - Lehterä - Komarov


Anything looking off?

 

[Gsus]

Too bad Salomäki didn't make it. I would switch him to Korpikoski only if I could.