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He was in the minors at one point. He played 6 games in the AHL this season.
Rundblad's first NHL game was in the 2011-12 season. He has 3 years or 138 games of waiver exemption. It hasn't been 3 years and he isn't close to the 138 games played threshold.
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Quenneville also said he's "comfortable" with Michal Handzus in that second-line center role in the playoffs. #Blackhawks
McDonough is an idiot. Stan Bowman as General Manager.Definitely. Bowman and McDonough too. Make SLarmer28 head coach, GM, and President and CEO.
Chicago will repeat as champs for the next decade.
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On European standards Jokerit is one of the most professional teams in Europe.
Teuvo, good luck in the NHL! Finns seems not to believe in him. Maybe he is not quite ready but he deserves a chance.
Finns like to see their hyped players fail for some reason, but once they succeed they waste no time to jump on the bandwagon. It's weird.
Absolutely not the case. We're just being realistic. I would love to see Teuvo succeed right of the bat. But I highly doubt it. He just isn't ready jet. Teräväinen's case is a lot similar to Granlund's. Small playmaking centerman. Teuvo needs time to adjust to the NA style of game, like Granlund did. A year, maybe two in Rockford and a couple of hardworking summers and he will be ready. And then he's going to be fantastic.Finns like to see their hyped players fail for some reason, but once they succeed they waste no time to jump on the bandwagon. It's weird.
Chicago uses the Towes line as its shut down line, I doubt you see Kane playing with Toews unless Chicago trails.
In a cap world, you can't firm up everything you want with perfect players.
Get used to it.
Finns like to see their hyped players fail for some reason
But, one huge thing he has done already, and it was completely obliterating the world juniors being the captain of an underdog team.
Finns coming to the NHL isn't unrealistic anymore like it was three years ago.
I don't know why that Goldmember dude and so many Finns are coming in here dumping on him.
As I already said: the level of play at the World Juniors is way inferior to the WC for men, and Granlund had already proven himself at that level before he left for America.
The "true hockey connoisseurs" often like to hype the World Juniors in Finland and belittle the men's tournament, because the best players don't participate in the men's tournament. What they forget is that the best 18- and 19-year-olds in the world don't take part in the World Juniors either.
BTW: Raimo Helminen scored 24 points in the World Juniors once, a record that was broken years later by Peter Forsberg. Ever heard of Raimo or his NHL career?
Raimo is one of the best Finnish hockey players ever, and in my opinion it shows ignorance to say he's not one just because he didn't have a successful NHL career.
BTW: Raimo Helminen scored 24 points in the World Juniors once, a record that was broken years later by Peter Forsberg. Ever heard of Raimo or his NHL career?
As I already said: the level of play at the World Juniors is way inferior to the WC for men, and Granlund had already proven himself at that level before he left for America.
The "true hockey connoisseurs" often like to hype the World Juniors in Finland and belittle the men's tournament, because the best players don't participate in the men's tournament. What they forget is that the best 18- and 19-year-olds in the world don't take part in the World Juniors either.
BTW: Raimo Helminen scored 24 points in the World Juniors once, a record that was broken years later by Peter Forsberg. Ever heard of Raimo or his NHL career?
I think Aleksander Barkov is the only young Finn for a long long time who has made the jump straight from the Finnish league to the NHL, and I hope you're not trying to say you can compare him to Teräväinen.
Because we've actually seen him play.
That you have. But on the other side of the coin - you know next to nothing about North American hockey, and more specifically - the Chicago Blackhawks.