It's happening, like i (and many others) been saying, ball has rolling for couple years now and most likely it hasn't even reached the bottom yet. Junior coaching needs drastic changes, same with Liiga. Too many teams, too many games, not enough quality players and not enough competition. That compined with poor junior coaching is recipe for disaster. No wonder all the kids leave.
Yikes.. that is not encouraging. I do think they get it back. I'm still of the small nation can't elite every year vibe.
Elites are hard to come by but i would be nice to even have players that can keep up. But they can get it back, if they start working again. Last time, the emergency meeting was held in 2009 and 2014 WJC gold was the first result. Probably in 4-5 years they could fix it but that doesn't happen until they actually start fixing it. Now they haven't done, a damn thing about it. It's easy to predict poor results for this season, first results for this season are in already. Hlinka-Gretzky Cup...
Placement game "win" and behind Germany in group stage....
Fewest goals scored(tied with Switzerland, so far).....