I am not sure. Jalonen does not gather 14 best forwards, but certain guys for certain roles.
On you talking about getting Kiviranta, we don't need another bottom-6 player. This team has so many of them. We got enough of those. This team screams for a guy who is offensively good and at the same time well rounded.
Hartikainen with Manninen is a lock. Now Granlund sucseeded with them against Latvia, so I believe he has a line there.
Granlund did both of his points on PP. Sure with same players as his even strength line but who knows if Granlund would've been good with any other players as well. He just arrived. He didn't get to practice with those guys really, so it's still perfect time to put him to the center position where we will build the second line with who ever is the forward coming, assuming that we indeed get a forward. Add Armia to that. OJ, Ismo Lehkonen, Tero Lehterä were all saying that they'd like to see Granlund playing center position and who knows how many more. I didn't have to go digging to find that info. I completely agree with them.
Pesonen+Manninen+Hartikainen worked well, so Pesonen can as well be their winger. It doesn't need to be Granlund. I want full potential of Granlund in use. Filppula should be a bottom-6 player. He's still good but he's not the prime NHL Filppula anymore. He can be a winger or center. I want more point production out of this team.
No he most likely doesn't change Lammikko's position from center because he's part of the PK squad. It's not good to change that at this point, unless they had performed catastrophically bad.
Putting Haula to 3rd line is something I don't like at all. Haula arrives late so he should go to wing and Jalonen often does it like that with such players that can play 2 positions, who also arrive late.
Yay to Heiskanen.
And still hoping for Haula. Now, normally I'd get the reasoning behind leaving out a 0.5ppg utility forward in favor of someone already present, and I guess those not so impressed by him are looking at his point totals (18+26) this season and drawing that conclusion. But the thing is - about 80% of Haula's points are from the last four months. The guy is red-hot right now.
Indeed. Haula has been on fire since the end of the regular season + most of the playoffs he was good too. He's way better than any other forward options that we have now.
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