Probably getting drunk somewhere with the rest of Tappara.
He also got injured during the finals, but it's not a given he would've made it even if he hadn't.
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He also got injured during the finals, but it's not a given he would've made it even if he hadn't.
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Not trying to hi-jack your thread but can someone give me a scouting report on Miro Aaltonen?
Should Leafs fans be expecting him to make the big club this coming season?
Should Leafs fans be expecting him to make the big club this coming season?
That depends on your forward situation, I guess. As it usually does.
He has all the tools to make it in the NHL. He's also pretty versatile, can play both centre and wing, top-six and bottom-six, so... If you have any holes left after you've inserted all the guys who're going to be staples no matter what, anything's possible.
I have lost all faith in Marjamäki as the national team coach. He should be sacked as soon as possible, if Finland wants to have at least respectable results in national team hockey in the near future. His play style is horrendous virkamies-käsijarru-kiekko (bureaucratic handbrake-hockey), which is an absolute pain to watch and makes my eyes hurt and head numb.
I watched practically all Kärpät games the previous season and noticed exactly this how his team was usually on this handbrake mode, in which even pretty good skaters don't manage to use their skating well, because everything is too tightly stuck into his tactically overemphasized playing style which sucks all the creativity and speed away from his teams and the individual players.
Sure he got some good results in FEL, but it just doesn't work at all on the international level and the the play was anyway really mostly boring to watch. Practically only Aho and Pulju made the team look occasionally better than they really were in Kärpät.
Just an absolutely horrendous coach for the national team. We would have maybe some chances if we had Westerlund, Jukka Jalonen or Karri Kivi as our national team coach, but with Marjamäki as our coach I'm already prepared for one of the worst world championship tournaments Finland has had in a long time. The good thing about it would be though that most probably Marjamäki would be sacked like he very much deserves to be. What a horrible coach for the national team really.
I watched practically all Kärpät games the previous season and noticed exactly this how his team was usually on this handbrake mode, in which even pretty good skaters don't manage to use their skating well, because everything is too tightly stuck into his tactically overemphasized playing style which sucks all the creativity and speed away from his teams and the individual players.
Sure he got some good results in FEL, but it just doesn't work at all on the international level and the the play was anyway really mostly boring to watch. Practically only Aho and Pulju made the team look occasionally better than they really were in Kärpät.
Just an absolutely horrendous coach for the national team. We would have maybe some chances if we had Westerlund, Jukka Jalonen or Karri Kivi as our national team coach, but with Marjamäki as our coach I'm already prepared for one of the worst world championship tournaments Finland has had in a long time. The good thing about it would be though that most probably Marjamäki would be sacked like he very much deserves to be. What a horrible coach for the national team really.
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I wonder a little bit that there are no players from the other finalist of the finnish championship KalPa and not Roope Hintz from HIFK instead of Juhamatti Aaltonen. Janne Keränen, Jesse Mankinen both from KalPa and Roope Hintz seemed to have played a good season in the finnish liiga, Hintz much better than Aaltonen if I interprete the statistic from the finnish liiga correctly.
Ok, I don't know the finnish liiga and have no idea if these players would really strengthen the team.
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Hintz was there during the preliminary games, but got cut. Rightfully so, I'd say. He may have had a better season with the club team, but Aaltonen was better in NT games. Not that Hintz was godawful, but still not quite there yet. However, since he's only 20, I've an inkling we'll see him make it in a year or two. Perhaps as soon as the olympics, unless the NHL changes its mind.
Keränen and Mankinen wouldn't make this team any better. Though not necessarily worse either, if we compare them to some of the filler picks. Lateral choices, in which case coaches tend to veer towards old familiars.
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Conspiracy Theorist
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are miro and Juhamatti brothers?
I see some lineups don't have miro aaltonen in the squad is he a long shot to make the final roster? I know nothing about him but hope to watch leaf players at this tourny
I see some lineups don't have miro aaltonen in the squad is he a long shot to make the final roster? I know nothing about him but hope to watch leaf players at this tourny
They are not related. Juhamatti is from Ii (about 30 kms north from Oulu) and Miro is from Joensuu in the Eastern Finland.
The final roster is already dedicated and he is in it.
But it would take a miracle for him to be in Toronto lineup next year. It's either AHL or back to KHL.
Agreed. I don't think he is good enough to make the leafs lineup. He'll either be in the AHL or back in the KHL.
First practice over in Paris.
Lineup
Aho-Filppula-Aaltonen Miro
Savinainen-Pillu-Rantanen
AaltonenJM-Kemppainen-Pyörälä
Osala-Lajunen-Hännikäinen
Puljujärvi/Sallinen extra forwards.
Pillu as 2nd center is the most strange spot.
Lineup
Aho-Filppula-Aaltonen Miro
Savinainen-Pillu-Rantanen
AaltonenJM-Kemppainen-Pyörälä
Osala-Lajunen-Hännikäinen
Puljujärvi/Sallinen extra forwards.
Pillu as 2nd center is the most strange spot.
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If they're going with that, I have no idea what they're thinking. Put Sallinen there or put Aho at C if you force your own hand like that. But ****ing Pihlström...
I hope that Pulju can steal JMA's spot later on in the tournament.
So it's actually happening.
So it's actually happening.
Artorius Horus T
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Marjamäki and gang has officially lost it.
This haves to be a bad joke,right?,that man (Marjamäki)
can-not-be-serious with these line combos.
So basically, this guy puts Tappara's 1st line center to fourth
and uber 4th line d-forward, whos natural position btw
is winger to 2nd line center position
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1. Miro Aaltonen isn't a RW,he plays either center or LW positions
2. Pihlström as a 2nd line center? WTF !?!!?!
3. JM Aaltonen is not LW,nor is he a defensive forward,he is offensive RW
4. Hietanen in 3rd pair? what a joke
5. The 4 centers should be: Filppula,Lajunen,Kemppainen,Sallinen
6. Puljujärvi should be in the line up (even if hasn't been that good,
his game will rise in these games)
1. Aho-Filppula-Rantanen
2. Savinainen-Lajunen-Puljujärvi
3. MiAaltonen-Sallinen-Hännikäinen
4. Osala-Kemppainen-Pyörälä
13. JMAaltonen
1. Honka-Hietanen
2. Kukkonen-Lajunen
3. Jaakola-Ohtamaa
7. Järvinen
1. Korpisalo
2. - wont matter -
2. Pihlström as a 2nd line center? WTF !?!!?!
3. JM Aaltonen is not LW,nor is he a defensive forward,he is offensive RW
4. Hietanen in 3rd pair? what a joke
5. The 4 centers should be: Filppula,Lajunen,Kemppainen,Sallinen
6. Puljujärvi should be in the line up (even if hasn't been that good,
his game will rise in these games)
1. Aho-Filppula-Rantanen
2. Savinainen-Lajunen-Puljujärvi
3. MiAaltonen-Sallinen-Hännikäinen
4. Osala-Kemppainen-Pyörälä
13. JMAaltonen
1. Honka-Hietanen
2. Kukkonen-Lajunen
3. Jaakola-Ohtamaa
7. Järvinen
1. Korpisalo
2. - wont matter -
Artorius Horus T
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Eye of Ra
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For how long time have pillu played center?
Btw, stop calling him Pihlström, his name is Pillu from now on.
Btw, stop calling him Pihlström, his name is Pillu from now on.
pp lines
1: Honka-JM.Aaltonen-Filppula-Pyörälä-Kemppainen
2: Lajunen-Hietanen-Aho-Rantanen-Savinainen
1: Honka-JM.Aaltonen-Filppula-Pyörälä-Kemppainen
2: Lajunen-Hietanen-Aho-Rantanen-Savinainen
Artorius Horus T
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No thanks,thats just a dirty word,BTW i'm not 100% convinced
its even his real nickname,i think former JYP goalie
Sinuhe Wallinheimo haves something to do with that,
that it somehow supposedly is.
BTW just because its on wikipedia,doesn't make it a fact
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BB88
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Benching Pulju for game 1 would be .....ng stupid.
Instead of giving him the chance to build up his confidence Marjamaki is considering destroying it.
What the ..... is Aaltonen doing there, what the hell is a 4th liner doing as a #2C?
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