GDT: Exhibition • Sep. 10 • SWE vs. FIN

[snipes]

Laine struggling on the smaller ice. He'll adapt and be fine in time though.

 

[Chimpradamus]

Karlsson is playing alot more defensive hockey than I expected him to do, more lik he did in a stint of last season with Ottawa where he's just contributing with passes.

He's not rushing like he used to do and it's kind of sad we won't see that. That's a big part of his game to create oddman rushes.

 

[Artorius Horus T]

that was a penalty,lucky for us it wasn't called

 

[Divine]

I don't understand the bashing of Laine, of course it'll be tough for him to be a prominent player against an elite Swedish team. He's not exactly facing Kazakstan here.

This is even tougher than the NHL, as a kid, what is he expected to do?

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

 

[Artorius Horus T]

PP for us.

 

[snipes]

Big PP here for Suomi.

 

[llwyd]

Was that really a penalty? Oh well.

 

[mjlee]

Serious question, has Landeskog even scored a goal for Sweden ever? He just seems to do nothing but skate around taking boneheaded penalties and having plays die on his stick.

 

[Mr Hockey*]

Laine looks huge out there!

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

Warm up game, we're hoping in 3 games he adjusts and then shoots bolts of lightning out of his arse hole

 

[DoubleGold]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

And who would you use to replace him? The kid is 18 and hasn't even played in the NHL yet, he will improve.

 

[Sorey*]

What a turnover by laine.

 

[kooma 13]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

Because unlike Canada, Finland doesnt have so many players to choose from. And btw Laine doesnt suck, hes just a bit off like half of the team Finland. You suggesting we should change half of our NHL players to Liiga or KHL players because exhibition match?

 

[Lempo]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

This is a rehearsal game. You can be like that in three and a half periods.

 

[Nordic*]

Karlsson is playing alot more defensive hockey than I expected him to do, more lik he did in a stint of last season with Ottawa where he's just contributing with passes.

He's not rushing like he used to do and it's kind of sad we won't see that. That's a big part of his game to create oddman rushes.

He changed his game after his sliced achilles. Sad to see.

 

[PG Canuck]

Here we go, Finland has a huge chance here.

 

[llwyd]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

Erm, no, this is not a tournament, this a practice game. We'll see how it goes for him, but I think there have been some promising flashes there.

 

[BusQuets]

And who would you use to replace him? The kid is 18 and hasn't even played in the NHL yet, he will improve.

There's a guy who was the best player with Granlund in the medal games last WHC waiting his chance..

 

[Chimpradamus]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

Who would you replace them with? It's not exactly like Finland has a forest of forwards ready for this kind of level of play. Plus he gets experience.

 

[IceBjoern]

He changed his game after his sliced achilles. Sad to see.

He's not really going full force.. He is fine.

 

[kitsumo]

As for Laine, I wouldn't be too dissapointed as a Jets fan, even though he is struggling so much because no one is ready for games like these at 19 years old. There is literally no coverage for Laine in team Finland as it comes to the quality of the opponents he's playing against because it's impossible when everyone are playing best on best. In nhl you can shelter the minutes and have him play a lot of powerplay.

 

[EK47]

Stop playing Söderberg on the bp

 

[DoubleGold]

There's a guy who was the best player with Granlund in the medal games last WHC waiting his chance..

Aho hasn't played in smaller rink either, I dount there's much of a difference.

 

[BB88]

The problem is this is a tournament. If the guy sucks, he shouldn't be on the team. If you're expecting nothing from him, why put him on the team?

He's not even close to being the worst Finn on the ice, so..

 

[EK47]

He changed his game after his sliced achilles. Sad to see.

He had a historic season last year and won the Norris the year before that chill