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

[Mestaruus]

Sweden and USA out, (My Sweden is in a state of decline in every way since a couple of years back and I think you can guess why with all that is happening - and USA always fails in international tournaments)

Do tell why you think it's happening for Sweden, because I don't tknow. I've been surprised that Sweden doesn't produce as high quality forwards as they once did, such as Foppa, Sedins and the likes. The level of defenders is great of course.

 

[Mestaruus]

Fellow Finns, tell me if I'm right about this. The Canada vs Sweden game will not be shown live on free TV, but the CAN-SWE game is coming 14:55 from "Nelonen" channel (AKA channel four) or else what is this "Jääkiekon 4 Nations Face-Off"? It's taking 2 hours and 30 mins of TV time, so I have to assume it's that CAN-SWE game? Clicking it also doesn't give information. So does anyone have a clue about this? I hope it's not some kind of long hype show with no game.

 

[matsqq]

Do tell why you think it's happening for Sweden, because I don't tknow. I've been surprised that Sweden doesn't produce as high quality forwards as they once did, such as Foppa, Sedins and the likes. The level of defenders is great of course.

I agree that it's not to compare to the golden generations we had before .

I do think Bratt and Raymond are great players and somehow I hope that they can bridge the gap and that we get more talents from younger age. Then there is Leo Carlsson and Eklund in San Jose, but I am not sure how it compares to Finlands younger talents, are there more young talented forwards there ? WIll defenders or forwards be the relatively stronger thing for you in the years to come ?

 

[Mestaruus]

I agree that it's not to compare to the golden generations we had before .

I do think Bratt and Raymond are great players and somehow I hope that they can bridge the gap and that we get more talents from younger age. Then there is Leo Carlsson and Eklund in San Jose, but I am not sure how it compares to Finlands younger talents, are there more young talented forwards there ? WIll defenders or forwards be the relatively stronger thing for you in the years to come ?

Someone else can probably answer that better, but you might be aware of the fact that Finnish player development has been in decline for a moment. Player drafting kind of is a sign of this as well.

 

[Razamanaz]

Well, Finland won, and that rather easy, that Sweden Hockey Games Tour in new built Globen, Stockholm. Sweden didn't even win a game. Finland top o' Europe - not good enough?!

 

[mattihp]

The Finnish liiga is in a freefall. Many teams choose to employ foreign players for their third lines which makes it worse long term.