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U20: Lake Placid Tournament, August 1st - 8th

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I'm actually thinking Finland might do well in this tournament regardless of having a lot of underagers. With Laine, Puljujärvi and Rantanen playing the obvious top 6 minutes it should be interesting to see how they are planning to use them (all natural RWs). Playing Laine on the left wing of Puljujärvi is the most likely scenario. Rantanen could also center first or second line, separating the two. They should give it a try and open up more possibilities towards the WJC. Still, a pretty good chance we're not seeing Rantanen in the U20 championships.
 
kelsier said:
I'm actually thinking Finland might do well in this tournament regardless of having a lot of underagers. With Laine, Puljujärvi and Rantanen playing the obvious top 6 minutes it should be interesting to see how they are planning to use them (all natural RWs). Playing Laine on the left wing of Puljujärvi is the most likely scenario. Rantanen could also center first or second line, separating the two. They should give it a try and open up more possibilities towards the WJC. Still, a pretty good chance we're not seeing Rantanen in the U20 championships.
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Rantanen will be in team Finland's roster, in world juniors if he plays to AHL.
If Colorado will assign Rantanen to TPS instead of AHL, TPS must release Rantanen to world juniors.
Because all liiga players have a clause, their contracts to play in national team.
 
FinnHockeyFan said:
Rantanen will be in team Finland's roster, in world juniors if he plays to AHL.
If Colorado will assign Rantanen to TPS instead of AHL, TPS must release Rantanen to world juniors.
Because all liiga players have a clause, their contracts to play in national team.
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It never was a question about AHL nor FEL. There's a decent chance he jumps straight into Colorado's lineup. Rantanen is one of the most ready players in his respective draft class. In which case they'd never release him. Nevertheless, things said and heard so far indicate that Sakic is giving him a tryout in the upcoming pre-season.
 
Team Finland in lake placid tournament.

Goalies
1 Kaapo Kähkönen Blues Espoo
30 Veini Vehviläinen JYP Jyväskylä

Defencemans
2 Matias Haaranen, HPK Hämeenlinna
3 Miro Keskitalo, TPS Turku
4 Niko Mikkola, KalPa Kuopio
5 Otto Leskinen, KalPa Kuopio
6 Sami Niku, JYP Jyväskylä
7 Jesper Mattila, Ilves Tampere
8 Eetu Sopanen, Pelicans Lahti
9 Vili Saarijärvi, Kärpät Oulu

Forwards
11 Sebastian Aho, Kärpät Oulu
12 Juho Lammikko, Ässät Pori
13 Miska Siikonen, Pelicans Lahti
14 Joel Kiviranta, Sport Vaasa
15 Teemu Lämsä, TPS Turku
16 Mikko Rantanen, TPS Turku
18 Aleksi Saarela, Ässät Pori
19 Jonne Tammela, KalPa Kuopio
20 Sebastian Repo, Pelicans Lahti
21 Jesse Puljujärvi, Kärpät Oulu
22 Julius Nättinen, JYP Jyväskylä
23 Frank Gymer, Jokerit Helsinki
27 Patrik Laine, Tappara Tampere
28 Waltteri Hopponen, HPK Hämeenlinna
 
FASTHockey To Stream All Camp Games
USA Hockey, in partnership with FASTHockey, is once again providing live streaming coverage of the USA Hockey National Junior Evaluation Camp. Current subscribers of FASTHockey can watch the games with their active subscription. Users whose subscriptions have expired can simply log in to their existing FASTHockey account and activate a new subscription. New users to FASThockey should go to USAHockey.FASTHockey.com and register for an account. Once confirmed, the user can select from several subscription packages to watch live or on-demand from virtually any device.
 
The game credits are gone on Fasthockey. It's 25 bucks a month for every game live and on Demand in the entire database. So it equals out to a much, much cheaper price for all of the content. It's a necessity for me because there's no other way to watch games from the NTDP/USHL, plus some midget AAA and tournaments like this throughout the year.
 
That's a lot of € for one week's tournament. Any idea how good of a quality Fasthockey streams are? Checked yesterday and the games would be played at reasonable times for European viewers. For example Finland plays all games 11pm Finnish time at latest so it's actually really tempting.
 
kelsier said:
That's a lot of € for one week's tournament. Any idea how good of a quality Fasthockey streams are? Checked yesterday and the games would be played at reasonable times for European viewers. For example Finland plays all games 11pm Finnish time at latest so it's actually really tempting.
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Expect roughly this quality:

 
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USA White lines...

LW|C|RW
14 Milano |21 Larkin |22 Boeser
17 Garland |19 Matthews |18 Schmaltz
11 Tkachuk |9 Eansor |25 Roslovic
24 Hitchcock | |20 Bjork

LD|RD
2 Walman |5 Belpedio
3 Werenski |26 Carlo
4 Krys |27 MacLeod
|28 McAvoy

1 Sarthou
30 Opilka
 
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