World Cup: 4 Nations Tournament - Team Finland (2025)

[SantosHalper]

Hakanpää out as well...

Lindell - Ristolainen
Mikkola - Jokiharju
Välimäki - Määttä
Vaakanainen

 

[FiLe]

I'm by no means saying that losing Heiskanen doesn't hurt and that it's not a bummer to not see him playing here, but the silver lining here is that if any of this present group can even adequately fill in the role intended for Heiskanen, it creates a much better situation for the olympics next year. Having another d-man besides Heiskanen who's shown that he can do the same things for us that Miro can do is much better than just having Heiskanen alone.

 

[Mestaruus]

Since Heiskanen is out and with these recent trades with Granny & Rantanen I'd go with something like this.

Teräväinen-Barkov-Laine
Lehkonen-Aho-Rantanen
Kakko-Hintz-Granny
Luostarinen-Lundell-Armia

13th forward (Haula will not recover in time right?):
Kotkaniemi/Tolvanen

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For PP:

Do you guys see a problem if we use one 5 forward PP unit or which defenders would you put on our PP unit(s)? I'm guessing Ristolainen would be the best D option for PP as much as I hate to say it ...

But here are my suggestions for 5 forward units:

Teräväinen - Kakko (mask) - Barkov
Laine - Granny

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Aho - Lehkonen (mask) - Rantanen
Hintz - Lundell

Hintz seems to operate from same spot as Laine on the PP, so I don't want them to be in the same unit. Rantanen changes positions on the right side. Need them one timers. Lundell changes positions a lot and also would do a lot of masking duty here with Lehkonen.

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For the PK, this leaves Luostarinen & Armia pair. Some players from the PP units will do double duty on special team moments.

Point producing defenders... Well, the best one is Lindell and that says a lot, but I'm not putting him to a PP unit, because he has so big role with PK. Big minutes for him.

 

[Mestaruus]

Well my interest for the tournament just plummeted. We've been waiting years for this and then the player that we absolutely can't be without gets injured by some idiot.

F**k Mark Stone

Hintz actually caused the injury ... From this review vid (angle & slow motion) . It seems pretty clear Stone didn't jump on Miro deliberately. It was unlucky.