Those are very good rankings, although I feel that the overagers for this year's draft should be higher. Daniel Nieminen and Niklas Nykyri are leagues above the likes of Julius Saari and Jasu Mensonen. I also think some 2005 born players like Rasmus Svartström and Benjamin Rautiainen should be above many of the 2007 born guys ranked here.
Finnish Prospect Update Thread
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Thanks for posting that list. Pretty sure the Kraken grab atleast one of the kids in the draft ..
I went through stat surfing after looking at the list and all 3 skaters in your top-5 interest me. Especially Boelius.
Reko Alanko is a very potential later round draft pick i would say somewhere between rounds 4-7.
Yes he has a lots of potential and I don't know why and im very confused that why they didn't choose him for the U18 Worlds.
Why would they choose someone who wasn’t a full time U20 league player in his draft year? His potential is great but he’s got a long ways to go.
Yeah that's true but if you have watched and followed his games this season Alanko has taken big steps all the time and improved his game a lot the whole season. And if you looked at some d-man in the Finnish team roster like Ossi Sippola and Veeti Ruotsalainen i think that Alanko could have have been chosen instead of those two to be honest. And also the Finnish team would have needed a big right handed d-man who plays hard and simple all the time, and who can also help the team offensively. And also if you think both Sippola and Ruotsalainen are left handed so it would had made sense that Alanko would have been there instead of someone of those two. And Alanko has also so much more potential then those two players because when you are a 6'6 right handed d-man your value and potential is so much higher.
Potential really doesn’t matter in a tournament. And I’m not sure I see much offensive upside in his game either. He’s never played for any national team. Would’ve been a really strange decision to send him to the U18s for his debut.
Well if we are honest the Finnish team would have needed badly a big strong d-man who plays hard and can make plays.
