Speculation: Antti Raanta done in the NHL?

[Honour Over Glory]

Shocked he hasn't signed overseas yet, Raanta being hurt each season is like a tradition at this point, I don't remember a year he wasn't hurt.

Kind of funny he doesn't want to wait for someone to get hurt to get a chance. Essentially hoping someone Antti Raanta's so Antti Raanta can get a chance.

 

[Honour Over Glory]

I really like the guy, but he was absolutely horrendous this season playing behind a good Canes defense. Watching some of those last games he played with the goals he gave up, I don't blame teams for staying away from him now.

The amount of injuries he's had and how long he's continuously been in and out with injuries, I think since like 2017, yeah that'll probably take a toll on his game as well. At one point he was supposed to be a very good goalie that would be a #1 a long time but he never could put together back to back healthy seasons.

 

[Bleedred]

The role of second or third baseman?

WUT?!

 

[Jormungandr]

My favorite goalie of all time. This guy was elite when healthy for the Coyotes. Unfortunately he just couldn’t stay healthy.

Good luck to you Rantanplan! Hopefully things work out wherever you end up.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

I was always Pro-Raanna, unlike everyone else it seems.

I always liked him. Had a rough run of injuries, but he was a solid goalie when healthy.

 

[LOFIN]

He said Finland has too high taxes, Switzerland for example is much more attractive in that regard.

For example, he would have had to pay taxes for the house in USA that he sold if he moved to Finland, which apprently isn't an issue in Switzerland.

Finland does have high taxes, but the issue here is that the Finnish treasury would want taxes from every earned dollar within the last 12 months if you were to live in Finland long term. The transition is smoother once you've been in Europe for a while. The NHL salaries are in a class of their own.

Makes sense. I mixed up the details but that's definitely what I was thinking of. Kind of like in Czech when they say "do prdele," which means "up the ass" and is a multipurpose exclamation.

Google translate just does funny stuff with Finnish from time to time. The context of "devil" here is just a swearword. "Call them up in Switzerland damnit!"

 

[WreckingCrew]

Love Father Finn, but he's cooked...he fell off so hard and fast last year he probably couldn't even be a regular AHL goalie anymore

 

[Mrfenn92]

Very good career. Liked him on the hawks a lot.

 

[Hinterland]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1838253890380144901

The story of Raanta specifically looking to play in Switzerland because of his wife asking him to do so seems to be true. At least he was quoted like this in Swiss media as well.

 

[Marshall]

I would have to say no, calling someone devil is not common and if someone called me devil it wouldn't really matter. Hard to say without context.

However, Perkele is one of the curse word we have, and kind of a well known I guess, and you can translate that as devil. But it is used more as a additional word, like "that f***ing idiot" would be "that perkeleen idiot", so you are not calling that person a devil directly.

But perkele is a really flexible word you can use when things are not going well

I guess its partly because those r's roll really nicely and can sound quite aggressive

Fun to say and scares off bears - I'll have to start using it!