WC: Finland vs USA semi final!

[CameronNeely]

Sweden still have much much much better NHL depth than Finland. We have 108 NHLers and like 80 that are top 9Fs or top 6Ds. It's fair to say you have better high end Euro league players though. But worse Euro depth and obviously a much weaker league.

These debates are just silly. It is plain and simple that FIN & SWE are part of hockey powerhouse family. Both. It is fair to say also, that powerhouses have depth which is directly in correlation with nr of players/ size of the country. Sweden has more depth than FIN and CAN has deepest pool of them all. And if we talk about Sweden, there is no question that their WC/ best on best teams are always capable of winning whichever tournament. Fantastic players coming out of the system year in year out. Of course it is disappointing, if Sweden is not playing for medals every year, but does not change anything I said above. On the other hand, Finland has done very well in tournaments with very little margins lately. That will also end some day as the margins are so small. No need to bash either FIN/SWE. They do very well as small nations.

 

[Husqvarna]

Manninen is our main guy.

After Jalonen, of course.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Our C team is far better than yours. We even won with our J team or something in 2019, where there was 19 debutors and zero NHL experience, even our best KHL players didin't arrive and there was only 2 KHL guys. 14 guys from Liiga and 4 from SHL.

Tell me that after you have won with D team or worse. Best on best you just see the tip of the iceberg, playing with C-D and worse teams tells alot about hockey program.

Well Sweden had much sucess in many WC with C-D teams if we look before 2016.

Im not sure if Swedens C team on paper actually is worse than Finlands C-team. Im too tired to make possible rosters. Keep in mind Sweden that have 100 players in NHL. And more swedes in KHL and NLA than finns.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Manninen is our main guy.

After Jalonen, of course.

He is rumoured to sign with Örebro.

Manninen - Abols - Brome

 

[THE JAM]

Keep in mind Sweden that have 100 players in NHL. And more swedes in KHL and NLA than finns.

Just unreal - did you read my post, you cannot use more that 22+3 players and even if you have 500 NHL players this does not mean that you can put together a winning TEAM

100-200 etc players in the NHL etc does not mean anything unless you can put together a 22+3 TEAM to win a championship/or Olympics

/ And you can't expect to win with 8 dahlins and 14 nylanders, or perhaps you do? := /

 

[Eye of Ra]

Just unreal - did you read my post, you cannot use more that 22+3 players and even if you have 500 NHL players this does not mean that you can put together a winning TEAM

100-200 etc players in the NHL etc does not mean anything unless you can put together a 22+3 TEAM to win a championship...

We shown we can do that in 2013, 2017 and 2018.

The discussion was not about that thought but depth, actual players. "how good these team look on paper".

 

[THE JAM]

on paper-discussions are just so stupid, always an excuse why not again failing to make it to the final game, which is FIN-CAN or CAN-FIN