A Nordic Team Next World Cup

[jfc64]

speaking of goalie... Really?
Tuukka rask | boston bruins | 2021 | 1-way |

past prime?

 

[Tuoppi]

It WOULD be on european ground as well! Stockholm - Helsinki!

Elastinen, Iso H Stockholm-Helsinki.

 

[tony d]

Finland and Sweden are good enough on their home, they don't have to be combined.

 

[DNA]

What about, instead of gimmick teams - and ruining several teams in order to make it competitive. We just remove Canada.

Then the next 8 teams are all of a sudden competitive to each other. Problem solved

That's not such a bad idea at all. And I'd watch with even greater interest!

 

[jfc64]

Finland and Sweden are good enough on their home, they don't have to be combined.

1 goal scored and 9 let in is not very fun...how you gonna REPLACE and ADD to the existing finnish team until 2020?


#35 Pekka Rinne (G) 37 (age in 2020) 1982-11-03
#9 Mikko Koivu (C) [C] 37 1983-03-12
#36 Jussi Jokinen (LW/RW) [A] 37 1983-04-01 Jesse Puljujärvi
#51 Valtteri Filppula (C/W) [A] 36 1984-03-20 Mikko Rantanen
#18 Sami Lepistö (D) 35 1984-10-17 Olli Juolevi
#28 Lauri Korpikoski (LW/RW) 34 1986-07-28

--------------probably a bit old relative newer players---------------

#71 Leo Komarov (LW/RW) 33 1987-01-23
#40 Tuukka Rask (G) 33 1987-03-10
#12 Jori Lehterä (C) 32 1987-12-23
#19 Mikko Koskinen (G) 32 1988-07-18
#56 Erik Haula (C/W) 29 1991-03-23
#45 Sami Vatanen (D) 29 1991-06-03
#2 Jyrki Jokipakka (D) 29 1991-08-20
#64 Mikael Granlund (C/W) 28 1992-02-26
#27 Joonas Donskoi (RW/LW) 28 1992-04-13
#7 Esa Lindell (D) 26 1994-05-23
#22 Ville Pokka (D) 26 1994-06-03
#3 Olli Määttä (D) 26 1994-08-22
#86 Teuvo Teräväinen (W/C) 26 1994-09-11
#55 Rasmus Ristolainen (D) 25 1994-10-27
#91 Aleksander Barkov (C) 25 1995-09-02
#20 Sebastian Aho (W/C) 23 1997-07-26
#29 Patrik Laine (LW/RW) 22 1998-04-19

Julius Honka
Kasperi Kapanen

 

[jfc64]

1234

 

[jfc64]

Elastinen, Iso H Stockholm-Helsinki.

yes, similar latitude, shifting longitude. Finlandsbåten!

 

[gwh]

1234

We need one guy to make out of all those. And that s not even including KHL keepers (Mr Vanilla Koskinen) or any of the drafted kids.

Goaltender = Zero problems.

Blue line is still crap for Finland. I wouldn't even take RR over the swedes into a joint team.

 

[Tomas W]

We need one guy to make out of all those. And that s not even including KHL keepers (Mr Vanilla Koskinen) or any of the drafted kids.

Goaltender = Zero problems.

Blue line is still crap for Finland. I wouldn't even take RR over the swedes into a joint team.

Only thing worse than losing against a Gimmick team:
getting relegated to be a part of one.

 

[Jablkon]

How long will it take till people realize mixing teams is another nail to hockey coffin?

Switzerland invested a lot of money into hockey, have big fan base, great league for european standards, got silver in WC. Instead of boost them and invite them for WC, sorry you are not good enough. Hockey already lost Slovakia. Now czechs should be in team Europe despite they trying to change their decline direction. Swinland now....what else

 

[jfc64]

We need one guy to make out of all those. And that s not even including KHL keepers (Mr Vanilla Koskinen) or any of the drafted kids.

Goaltender = Zero problems.

Blue line is still crap for Finland. I wouldn't even take RR over the swedes into a joint team.

Risto makes the team. Swedish defensemen are fancy puck losers.

WARNING: "Hit" story coming here, will end up in Expressen in three days:

"Oh, there are three swedes in defensive zone and....waaaaaiiiiit...on the radar there is a Slovakian speedforward approaching...let's COUNT the seconds until the puck is lost...ONE.....TWO.....THREE....AND the Slovak gets his stick on the puck which bounce into the corner and a swedish stick misses the puck which stands on its edge and gets on the skates on the only swede who hasn't run into the other and WHOOPS, there's a second opponent taking it...

And a nordic team without a finnish goalie is a styggelse [stidj-el-se]. Actually we might leave a carte blanche for that to happen.

Nordic Team defense:

Lindholm - Ristolainen
Gunnarsson - Larsson
Ekholm - Hjalmarsson
Nemeth - Brodin

 

[Confucius]

No more hybrid teams, apparently the majority of Fans don't like them.

 

[Booster*]

In the years to come Finland wil have these players to provide:



Lehkonen-Barkov-Rantanen
Laine-Aho-Puljujärvi
Tolvanen-Teräväinen-Saarela
&
a few other prospects with potenital, maybe a hidden gem like Eetu Tuulola.

For defence:

Juolevi-Ristolainen
Niemeläinen-Saarijärvi
etc

Goalies:

Saros
Korpisalo
Raanta
Luukkonen

among others, so let´s keep these teams please

 

[Conspiracy Theorist]

In the years to come Finland wil have these players to provide:



Lehkonen-Barkov-Rantanen
Laine-Aho-Puljujärvi
Tolvanen-Teräväinen-Saarela
&
a few other prospects with potenital, maybe a hidden gem like Eetu Tuulola.

For defence:

Juolevi-Ristolainen
Niemeläinen-Saarijärvi
etc

Goalies:

Saros
Korpisalo
Raanta
Luukkonen

among others, so let´s keep these teams please

Even WHC is interesting to watch with these players. Finland will be unstoppable force.

 

[jfc64]

In the years to come Finland wil have these players to provide:

Lehkonen-Barkov-Rantanen
Laine-Aho-Puljujärvi
Tolvanen-Teräväinen-Saarela
&
a few other prospects with potenital, maybe a hidden gem like Eetu Tuulola.

For defence:

Juolevi-Ristolainen
Niemeläinen-Saarijärvi
etc

Goalies:

Saros
Korpisalo
Raanta
Luukkonen

among others, so let´s keep these teams please

Finland will be fun to follow for quite some time soon. But...statistically, Sweden STILL have 50% more draft picks in the NHL draft. And the stats for players under 24 speaks below:

5. Filip Forsberg (LW/RW) Nashville Predators 82 33 31 64 0.78 47 1
10. Aleksander Barkov (C) Florida Panthers 66 28 31 59 0.89 8 18
13. John Klingberg (D) Dallas Stars 76 10 48 58 0.76 30 22
18. Gabriel Landeskog (LW) Colorado Avalanche 75 20 33 53 0.71 69 -5
22. Mika Zibanejad (C) Ottawa Senators 81 21 30 51 0.63 18 -2
26. Victor Rask (C) Carolina Hurricanes 80 21 27 48 0.60 24 -6
32. Mikael Granlund (C/W) Minnesota Wild 82 13 31 44 0.54 20 -12
34. Rickard Rakell (C/W) Anaheim Ducks 72 20 23 43 0.60 19 -1
40. Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Buffalo Sabres 82 9 32 41 0.50 33 -21
43. Alexander Wennberg (C/W) Columbus Blue Jackets 69 8 32 40 0.58 2 -1
45. Elias Lindholm (C/RW) Carolina Hurricanes 82 11 28 39 0.48 24 -23
46. André Burakovsky (W/C) Washington Capitals 79 17 21 38 0.48 12 4
55. Joonas Donskoi (RW/LW) San Jose Sharks 76 11 25 36 0.47 20 4
58. Teuvo Teräväinen (W/C) Chicago Blackhawks 78 13 22 35 0.45 20 -2
63. Mattias Janmark (C/LW) Dallas Stars 73 15 14 29 0.40 16 12
66. Hampus Lindholm (D) Anaheim Ducks 80 10 18 28 0.35 40 7
76. Joakim Nordström (C/W) Carolina Hurricanes 71 10 14 24 0.34 12 1
86. William Karlsson (C/LW) Columbus Blue Jackets 81 9 11 20 0.25 6 -9
91. Olli Määttä (D) Pittsburgh Penguins 67 6 13 19 0.28 22 27
96. Adam Larsson (D) New Jersey Devils 82 3 15 18 0.22 77 15
97. Johan Larsson (W/C) Buffalo Sabres 74 10 7 17 0.23 27 -4

5. Joonas Korpisalo Columbus Blue Jackets 31 2.60 .920
7. Linus Ullmark Buffalo Sabres 20 2.60 .913
6. Anton Forsberg Columbus Blue Jackets 4 3.02 .907
7. Christopher Gibson New York Islanders 4 3.38 .882
9. Juuse Saros Nashville Predators 1 3.10 .870



-----------------------brady bunch-------------------------

67. Rickard Rakell (C/W) Anaheim Ducks 1 1 2 3 3.00 0 2
3. William Nylander (C/W) Toronto Maple Leafs 10 4 7 11 1.10 4 -1
5. Victor Rask (C) Carolina Hurricanes 9 4 6 10 1.11 0 2
15. Alexander Wennberg (C/W) Columbus Blue Jackets 8 1 7 8 1.00 2 3
9. Mika Zibanejad (C) New York Rangers 10 2 7 9 0.90 6 0
33. Joel Eriksson Ek (C/LW) Minnesota Wild 6 2 3 5 0.83 0 3
10. Patrik Laine (LW/RW) Winnipeg Jets 10 6 2 8 0.80 2 -1
19. Rasmus Ristolainen (D) Buffalo Sabres 9 0 7 7 0.78 10 -1
20. Filip Forsberg (LW/RW) Nashville Predators 9 0 7 7 0.78 4 -3
21. Viktor Arvidsson (LW/RW) Nashville Predators 9 4 2 6 0.67 2 -4
36. Aleksander Barkov (C) Florida Panthers 10 2 3 5 0.50 0 3
39. Sebastian Aho (W/C) Carolina Hurricanes 9 0 5 5 0.56 2 -1
47. André Burakovsky (W/C) Washington Capitals 9 2 2 4 0.44 0 -2
53. Joel Armia (RW) Winnipeg Jets 9 1 3 4 0.44 2 1
55. Jonas Brodin (D) Minnesota Wild 10 1 3 4 0.40 6 6 1
62. Teuvo Teräväinen (W/C) Carolina Hurricanes 9 2 1 3 0.33 0 -5
63. Markus Granlund (C/RW) Vancouver Canucks 9 2 1 3 0.33 4 -2
65. Artturi Lehkonen (LW/RW) Montréal Canadiens 9 2 1 3 0.33 4 2
84. p***y Gällivare (RW) Edmonton Oilers 8 1 1 2 0.25 0 0
85. William Karlsson (C/LW) Columbus Blue Jackets 8 1 1 2 0.25 2 0
100. Oscar Klefbom (D) Edmonton Oilers 10 0 2 2 0.20 0 4
115. Nick Sörensen (RW) Anaheim Ducks 5 0 1 1 0.20 2 -1
122. Gustav Forsling (D) Chicago Blackhawks 8 0 1 1 0.13 0 0
123. Olli Määttä (D) Pittsburgh Penguins 9 0 1 1 0.11 4 1
126. Elias Lindholm (C/RW) Carolina Hurricanes 9 0 1 1 0.11 0 -5
135. Hampus Lindholm (D) Anaheim Ducks - - - - 0.00 -
155. Miikka Salomäki (W/C) [Hand injury, expected to return mid-December] Nashville Predators 2 0 0 0 0.00 0 -1
158. Mikko Rantanen (W/C) Colorado Avalanche 3 0 0 0 0.00 0 -3
165. Jacob Larsson (D) Anaheim Ducks 4 0 0 0 0.00 2 -1
168. Esa Lindell (D) Dallas Stars 6 0 0 0 0.00 0 0
173. Markus Nutivaara (D) Columbus Blue Jackets 8 0 0 0 0.00 2 -2

1. Juuse Saros Nashville Predators 1 1.01 .971


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Filip Forsberg - Mika Zibanejad - William Nylander
André Burakovsky - Victor Rask - Elias Lindholm
Viktor Arvidsson - Alexander Wennberg - Rickard Rakell
William Karlsson - Joel Eriksson Ek - Anton Rödin

Hampus Lindholm -
Oscar Klefbom - Jonas Brodin
Gustav Forsling -
Jacob Larsson

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Patrik Laine - Aleksander Barkov - Joel Armia
Artturi Lehkonen - Sebastian Aho - Jesse Puljujärvi
Markus Granlund - Teuvo Teräväinen - Mikko Rantanen

Olli Määttä - Rasmus Ristolainen
Esa Lindell - Markus Nutivaara

Juuse Saros

 

[jfc64]

It's fun to make rosters but God would the World Cup be a joke at this point

Ryder Cup & Solheim Cup!

Europe (including Putinsk) vs North America U65!

 

[quartus]

Ryder Cup & Solheim Cup!

Europe (including Putinsk) vs North America U65!

That's something that would probably work a lot better. 7-game series would make for some amazing entertainment.

 

[helax]

+the ones in Europe some who are better than many on the list like Mikko Koskinen who could play or have played in NHL.

too bad you only can use on

 

[DJJones]

In four years both Finland and Sweden on their own should be dangerous.

Can't imagine they would want to split the glory of beating Canada and Russia.