Mr expert is good and tells his own recipe to fix Finland adjusting problems on North American ice.
Our junior coaches do not have information or any clue on that what playing in smaller ice requires.
And SM liiga's management staff are too stupid peoples to realize bring smaller rinks in liiga.
I see it whistled right past your head what I was trying to say. Fine, in plainer words then: We have too many junior aged players who are highly skilled at hockey, but don't know enough English (yet) to understand the instructions a foreign coach would give them. So the problem is not an NA coach not knowing what to do, the problem would be him getting his message across. The result would be the same, however - he wouldn't be as effective as you imagine.
Of course, that can partly be circumvented in situations like practice where you can have an assistant translating to those whose understanding of English is Pulju-level (or what it was in 2016), but there's obviously no time for that when it's actual gametime. So being fluent in Finnish is going to be one requirement for our junior coaches at least for some time still.
Well, there have been a few exceptions, like Jortikka, who only speaks Turku.
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In other news, looks like we'll be playing the Czechs in the QF. I'm not going to call it a cakewalk, but they're fully beatable. Definitely the most agreeable opponent of those available. Especially now when our offensive heavy hitters seem to be finding their sea legs. So after all the [female dog]ing and moaning some of you are so fond of, we've arrived at pretty much where we expected to be.
Looking forward though, if we do clear that hurdle, we're going to be massive underdogs in the probable SF vs. Canada.
