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

[Conspiracy Theorist]

Barkov was 18 in Sochi.

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

How many Finnish players of only 18 years old, have ever been on a "best possible" national team roster?

Were Selänne or Koivu?

No. But 4yr gaps don't help. Reijo Ruotsalainen for example had been in 3 WC contents from 18-21 before his first Canada Cup. Kurri had 1 or 2 less. So its an unfair comparison, WC is best as that is every year

 

[ijuka]

Barkov was in Sochi and he was about the same age that Laine is.

 

[Nordic*]

Okay. But were Selänne and Koivu good enough to crack the best Finnish roster, when they were 18?

What I'm saying is, you are way too hard on Lauine. He's still a kid.

 

[ulvvf]

We must have very different concepts/definitions of the word "flashy".

I'm curious, how many games with Ottawa did you see last season?



Karlsson wasn't worth anything above a 2/5 in the second game against Finland. Made very little happen 5 vs 5 and made some half-assed plays in his own zone, losing races for pucks etc.

I have no idea how anyone could give him a grade of 4/5.

I didnt count, but a lot of games, more then enough to get a good view of his game.

For me flashy is something out of the ordinaire some highlight worthy stuff. That I see very little of from Karlsson, what I see is constantly good plays, just like in the last game. That was a average game for Karlsson,and easily a 4 out of 5 if not 5 out of 5, unless you have much higher demands just because it is Karlsson.

As I said, even in that highlight video from his entire season, they have more simple/good plays then flashy stuff. For example 0:22, is that really flashy? If that is flashy, what is not flashy? You could easily fill a highlight video of those types of play from Karlsson just from his last game against finland.

 

[MMANumminen]

Still a kid excuse doesn't count. The best players should be always on NT. If he is too young, he shouldn't be in

 

[behemolari]

Ai swer to god with Good refs Finland win with 10-2 and laine scores 7. Alwais the refs when Sweden win.

lol

But seriously, with different refs next time it's a totally different game too. I expect more physical game and much less penalties. Should be advantage to Finns who were terrible with special plays but played good 5vs5.

 

[jfc64]

Laine registered 0 hits so what exactly was this:

https://streamable.com/ho0b

That's not a hit?

El Bow Ing, 2 minutes.

 

[ijuka]

El Bow Ing, 2 minutes.

That's not the elbow. It's his triceps.