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.

 

[jj cale]

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.

Thank you.


I mean it was unfortunate but just one of those plays that happen in hockey.

 

[Jussi]

Jokiharju and Scalewoman officially in as replacements.

 

[FiLe]

Claywoman

Tappara has been sucking lately, but I didn't expect them to start the fire sale just like that, let alone some NHL club picking up the guy.

It's "Scalewoman".

 

[FinPanda]

Ristolainen maybe injured too. Oh god whats happening to our defence.

 

[Mountlaine]

Will never happen but now with the injuries I would like to see Barkov playing D just to see how he does.

 

[Mestaruus]

Nvm! Delete .

 

[centipede2233]

I’d like to know how Finland does so well internationally, olympics and world juniors, but when I see their best on best on paper it is putrid.

 

[moropanov]

I’d like to know how Finland does so well internationally, olympics and world juniors, but when I see their best on best on paper it is putrid.

forwards and goalies seem good? defense is different think.. on paper

 

[behemolari]

I’d like to know how Finland does so well internationally, olympics and world juniors, but when I see their best on best on paper it is putrid.

skoda cup, olympics and juniors are mostly about coaching and playbook. on paper you wont notice it of course. also great goaltending is major reason.

 

[behemolari]

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

eight years waiting just to see the only player who is absolutely mandatory to this team, injured week before the tournament.

see you again in next decade or something

 

[heksagon]

I’d like to know how Finland does so well internationally, olympics and world juniors, but when I see their best on best on paper it is putrid.

If Finland constantly "overperforms" with "putrid" rosters, maybe it's time to consider that the players might be underrated. This roster for example has so many forwards who are great defensively, so only looking at stat sheets doesn't get you very far into analyzing how good they actually are. It might be a part of how Finns get coached from a young age, defending is very much considered a team effort. I don't buy that it's all playbook, cohesion and "sisu", although those matter too in a short tournament. You can't overperform year after year after year if the roster really sucks.

I don't think Finland is nearly as bad as people think even on paper. The paper is just being read wrong.

The defensive depth is unusually thin this time though, so the absence of Heiskanen is devastating. I don't think you can fully judge the current Finnish roster without him.

 

[Czechboy]

What is the D now? Feels like a lot of shitty injuries piling up

 

[Mestaruus]

What is the D now? Feels like a lot of shitty injuries piling up

NHL.com had it like this 6 days ago. So remove Heiskanen, Ristolainen and Hakanpää. Two replacements are Jokiharju and Vaakanainen. I don't know who the 3rd replacement is, but not any superstar anyway...

 

[Nate070]

I’d like to know how Finland does so well internationally, olympics and world juniors, but when I see their best on best on paper it is putrid.

Wait now, did you already see them play. WOW!!

Well, didn´t see that bs on paper but still

 

[Jussi]

Rantanen out from the game vs Utah HC due to a lower body injury.... *sigh*

 

[SantosHalper]

Rantanen out from the game vs Utah HC due to a lower body injury.... *sigh*

 

[king89]

Let's just withdraw from this joke tournament and go for gold in 2026 Olympics

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

Ristolainen out, replaced by Nikolas Matinpalo.

 

[BusQuets]

This is very big hit to Finland again. Ristolainen has became great defenseman in Philly under Tortorella.

 

[king89]

What a shit show this has turned out to be

 

[MoeTheHobo]

When we lose we can at least blame it on us bringing our c-team.