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World Cup: 2016 World Cup — Team Finland

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Filppula - Koivu - Mi Granlund (5 - 6.75 - 3)
J. Jokinen - Barkov - Pulkkinen (4 - 0.925 - 0.735)
Korpikoski - Lehterä - Teräväinen (2.5 - 4.7 - 0.925)
Komarov - Haula - Ma Granlund (2.95 - 1 - 0.7675)
Kemppainen - Donskoi
Rantanen

Määttä - Vatanen (0.894 - 1.2625)
Lindell - Ristolainen ( - 0.925
Jokipakka - Pokka (0.9 - )
Lindbohm (0.67)

Rask, Rinne, Lehtonen (7 - 7 - 5.9)


11. Sean Bergenheim (LW/RW) totals 56 9 10 19 0.34 40 -2
14. Tuomo Ruutu (LW/RW) New Jersey Devils 77 7 6 13 0.17 28 -3

3. Iiro Pakarinen (RW/LW) Oklahoma City Barons 39 17 11 28 0.72 20 17
5. Joel Armia (RW) totals 54 12 21 33 0.61 61 3
7. Kasperi Kapanen (RW) Wilkes-Barre Scranton Penguins 4 1 1 2 0.50 0 -1
9. Julius Honka (D) Texas Stars 68 8 23 31 0.46 55 -10
18. Petri Kontiola (C) Toronto Marlies 11 0 0 0 0.00 6 -4
 
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I think many of your D corps projections are way off, unless you want to treat this tournament as a practice run for the 2018 Olympics (in which NHL players might not even participate in). Defense that young would probably be in trouble. They will insert some more experienced Euro guys in the line up.

mattihp said:
Haula the winger is twice the player Ma.Granlund is.
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I really don't see why Haula is "twice the player". Neither are that special, but MaG at least seems to have some scoring touch.

JJTT said:
Marjamäki will be named as the head coach for the World Cup and 2018 Olympic teams today.

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/jaakiekko/art-1440725954126.html

Official announcment at 14.00.
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I really haven't kept track and didn't have an clue they are not continuing with Jalonen. What is the "word on the streets" on the coach change?
 
Periwinkle said:
I think many of your D corps projections are way off, unless you want to treat this tournament as a practice run for the 2018 Olympics (in which NHL players might not even participate in). Defense that young would probably be in trouble. They will insert some more experienced Euro guys in the line up.



I really don't see why Haula is "twice the player". Neither are that special, but MaG at least seems to have some scoring touch.



I really haven't kept track and didn't have an clue they are not continuing with Jalonen. What is the "word on the streets" on the coach change?
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Jalonen wanted a longer contract and Kummola & co only offered one year.
 
Harvest said:
Opposite, Kummola wanted a longer contract and Jalonen wanted to move after World cup.
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Yeah.

Looks like Kekäläinen/Lehtinen will have a big part on building the team since Marjamäki can't really scout the players from Finland.
 
Thanks, makes sense to have the same coach throughout the World Cup (at least) until the Olympics.
 
The World Cup is the starting point any coach would dream about - you get to have the best players there is and yet no one's gonna give a rat's backside about the result.
 
JJTT said:
Yeah.

Looks like Kekäläinen/Lehtinen will have a big part on building the team since Marjamäki can't really scout the players from Finland.
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The first, preliminary roster list for this so-called World Cup has to be handed in next spring, so someone else besides Marjamäki has to make the picks. But then again, a monkey would be able to write up a list of all Finnish NHL regulars.
 
Projected Roster

Here is my projected team Finland roster. I tried to inject some youth into the line up. Let me know what you think or if I missed anyone...

FORWARDS
Barkov
Bergenheim
Filppula
Granlund
Haula
Joensuu
Komarov
Jokinen
Koivu
Korpikoski
Lehtera
K. Kapanen
Pulkkinen
Ruutu
Teravainen

DEFENSE
Jokipakka
Lepisto
Maata
Ristolainen
Hietanen
Lindell
Vatanen
Honka

GOALIES
Rask
Rinne
 
Drake88 said:
Here is my projected team Finland roster. I tried to inject some youth into the line up. Let me know what you think or if I missed anyone...
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Left out Petteri Lindbohm on defense. Have him instead of Hietanen or Honka and you're close.

Plus ya have 15 forwards with the limit being 14. The oddest pick is Joensuu, he's hardly among the usual suspects. And Kapanen's too early to call.

Otherwise, it's pretty much the "monkey's list" as Gaps so eloquently called it.
 
FiLe said:
Left out Petteri Lindbohm on defense. Have him instead of Hietanen or Honka and you're close.

Plus ya have 15 forwards with the limit being 14. The oddest pick is Joensuu, he's hardly among the usual suspects. And Kapanen's too early to call.

Otherwise, it's pretty much the "monkey's list" as Gaps so eloquently called it.
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yea those seem to be pretty reasonable changes to me. I was looking around the internet trying to find the roster format for the tournament but didn't see anything concrete. Is it 25 players with 14 F, 8 D and 3 Goalies?
 
Drake88 said:
Is it 25 players with 14 F, 8 D and 3 Goalies?
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That seems to be the case. If we get literal, it's actually 22 skaters plus 3 goalies, so the combination of forwards and d-men could technically be 15+7 or 13+9 too, or 12+10 or 16+6... you get the idea. But I don't think a single team will veer anywhere from 14+8.
 
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Hey guys, I'm looking for a video. I think it was from before the WHJC last year. They had Finland's couch wearing a small ear bud, and a comedian (I think it was) was telling the coach what to say to his players in practice. Couldn't find it on google.
 
Roster Prediction (15 F, 8 D, 3 G)

I assume since Finland lacks winger depth they will do as Canada did for Sochi, putting centers on the wings.

V. Filppula - A. Barkov - T. Pulkkinen
J. Jokinen - T. Teravainen - M. Rantanen
Mi. Granlund - J. Lehtera - S. Salminen
Ma. Granlund - M. Koivu - J. Armia
M. Salomaki - E. Haula - T. Hartikainen

O. Maatta - S. Vatanen
J. Jokipakka - R. Ristolainen
P. Lindbohm - J. Hietanen
R. Rissanen - V. Pokka

Rinne
Rask
Ramo

BTW: Rinne>Rask
 
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