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RW Kaapo Kakko - TPS, Liiga (2019 Draft) Part 3

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Pavel Buchnevich said:
Thats terrible reasoning. What if he gets injured walking down the street? He's not made it yet, and has no draft positioning to protect. He's not even played a game in the NHL. I think this is a bad mindset for a player to
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I was only referring to risk/reward ratio. Obviously that's not the reason why he isn't going to WJC. I'm just trying to say that he has already played 2 great WJC tournaments, after those he has been dominant in Liiga.

I think that is enough for the scouts at this point what comes to junior games, right? Why would playing dominant in much lower level than he has already proven (U20/Liiga) would raise or lower his stock?

Next logical step is to play for WHC which he is going to do. Also, situation could be different if he didn't win 2 gold medals already, now he has done it and been a key player for both of those wins. Now it's time for other players to step up.
 
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FinPanda said:
He didn't want to. It's his choice.
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Since Kakko has won gold both at U18 and U20 level he probably feels he has nothing more left to achieve at juniors. On the other hand Hughes has been the on losing side in those those finals against Finland so he probably fees he has some unfinished business there. So to me it makes sense that Kakko has decided not to go and Hughes is going.

Also playing the whole season in the Finnish league against men including one round of play-offs and then playing for the Finnish U20 team and possily making the Finnish mens world championship team adds up to a lot of hockey. When you then add also all the draft releated overseas travel in the summer to that it makes perfect sense to take a couple of weeks off to recover and concentrate on making the mens team.
 
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First I was disappointed but after thinking about it, it makes PERFECT sense for Kakko to focus on the WHC and not going to the juniors. Who the hell cares if he´s drafted 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th or we. (1st is still open ofc but much lower chance). Kakko wants to develop as fast as possible so this is the perfect next step for him. I think he will make it to the WHC and i ´m sure he will be a treat to watch over there!
 
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Nate070 said:
First I was disappointed but after thinking about it, it makes PERFECT sense for Kakko to focus on the WHC and not going to the juniors. Who the hell cares if he´s drafted 2nd or 3rd or 4th or 5th or we. (1st is still open ofc but much lower chance). Kakko wants to develop as fast as possible so this is the perfect next step for him. I think he will make it to the WHC and i ´m sure he will be a treat to watch over there!
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The chances of Kakko going 3rd are way smaller than the chancese of him going 1st
 
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FinnishSniper said:
The chances of Kakko going 3rd are way smaller than the chancese of him going 1st
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Of course they are but who cares? It does not matter in the end. I just hope he ends up in a decent team. Would love for Colorado to get him. He would have Rantanen there to ease in his transition to NHL. There is waaaaay too much bickering about draft positions over here. Let´s just focus more on the actual players and their potentials
 
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Kakko is going the right path, for him to really show what he can do and gain trust in the coaches this is it. He can now play a bunch of games with the men before the deciding roster for WC. And he now has the possibility to impress the coaches and even earn himself top 6 minutes. Who cares about hughes vs kakko at U18, lets see how they do vs eachother agains fully grown men with hockey as their proffession instead?
 
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I know I should read the thread cause you probably talked about that before but I don't think Kakko is really worse than Hughes.

Other than ability to play center what does Kakko lack ?

Kakko just seem like a beast to me.
 
pled said:
I know I should read the thread cause you probably talked about that before but I don't think Kakko is really worse than Hughes.

Other than ability to play center what does Kakko lack ?

Kakko just seem like a beast to me.
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Naww man, nobody's talked about that at all.
 
kelsier said:
Like who exactly? I doubt anyone here actually believes such things.
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Yeah didn't bother to check that it was actually him who made those claims, my bad. Doesn't change the fact that sometimes hype gets a bit out of hand by Finnish posters discussing Finnish players.
 
Hntz said:
Yeah didn't bother to check that it was actually him who made those claims, my bad. Doesn't change the fact that sometimes hype gets a bit out of hand by Finnish posters discussing Finnish players.
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Yes it does. But that's not something that's unique to Finnish posters.
 
tony d said:
I think both their play at the WHC may go a long ways go towards who goes #1 in the 2019 draft.
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Yeah, playing against NHL and Euro stars will really show their skill against great competition. I think after the tournament a lot of scouts will have Kakko over Hughes. Just don’t think Hughes can hang against physical fast players.
 
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FinnishSniper said:
Yeah, playing against NHL and Euro stars will really show their skill against great competition. I think after the tournament a lot of scouts will have Kakko over Hughes. Just don’t think Hughes can hang against physical fast players.
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It's a true test on NHL readiness. If you can't handle the WHC physicality, it's propably best to wait another year since the NHL is even worse in that regard.
 
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Pavel Buchnevich said:
Why can’t he play in both?
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Finland tries to ice the best team possible so he has to fight for a roster spot.
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Yeah, playing against NHL and Euro stars will really show their skill against great competition. I think after the tournament a lot of scouts will have Kakko over Hughes. Just don’t think Hughes can hang against physical fast players.
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The draft isnt based on NHL readiness though. If the team with the #1 overall pick thinks Kakko is more ready but Hughes projects to end up better they'll pick Hughes anyways. Just like Marner was picked very high even though he definitely wasnt ready right off the bat.
 
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I preferred pick 2 to pick 1 because Hughes will go 1 and I prefer Kakko to Hughes. It’s a wide open draft, in my opinion. Kakko has one of the better chances in this draft of being the best player from this draft. If he can play the center of the ice, it would be a big help. We need a 1C. I can’t complain about us picking second. Kakko has a good chance to be our best player within a few seasons. We need all the high end talent we can get.
 
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