What will Team Finland look like in 2025?

[Albatros]

LOL at Tolvanen making the team, he is a clear bust at this point. He has not produced at top level even at Minors level after his lucky streak in KHL.

Team Finland's top scorer in Olympic hockey, how many others can say the same?

 

[JustaFinnishGuy]

In 6 years we could have multiple late breakthrough players on the roster. There are no guarantees IMO outside of the top 6 (Excluding Tolvanen, he hasn't proven anything in NSH yet, and I can attest to that as a NSH fan.

 

[Stubu]

Man, hard to even imagine Finland ever having a roster where Grandlund and Teräväinen do not have a spot.

And that's the B roster of NHL plugs, when the A team from Liiga flies to gold.

 

[Stubu]

Add humor.

 

[Caffeine]

Man, hard to even imagine Finland ever having a roster where Grandlund and Teräväinen do not have a spot.

Granlund would be 33 years old and there is no spot for Teräväinen on top6

 

[ikzu]

My predictions:

Kakko - Barkov - Rantanen
Laine - Aho - Teräväinen
X - Kotkaniemi - Granlund
X - Y - X

Lindell - Heiskanen
Vaakanainen - Ristolainen
Q - Q

Saros
Z
Z

Y = Lundell, Räty, Borgström, Hintz...
X = Kapanen, Lehkonen, Puljujärvi, Armia, Tolvanen, Vesalainen, Lambert, Simontaival, Tuomaala, Heponiemi, Kupari, Ylönen...
Q = Nutivaara, Juolevi, Määttä, Jokiharju, Niku, Välimäki, Kokkonen, Heinola, Thomson, Mikkola, Kaski, Laaksonen...
Z = Luukkonen, Vehviläinen, Kähkönen, Rask, Raanta, Korpisalo, Husso, Lankinen...

Things can change quickly and 6 years is a long time. 2015 nobody knew nothing about Miro Heiskanen. So who knows what superstars will appear in 6 years.

 

[karhukissa]

In 6 years we could have multiple late breakthrough players on the roster.

Definetly. Also we have this huge pool of first rounders/early second which were considered as eliteprospects, but haven't taken the spot in the NHL just yet. They all have potential to become good NHL players.

Vesalainen, Vaakanainen, Juolevi, Välimäki, Heponiemi, Kupari and Borgström for example.

Every time when one Finnish player retires (Filppula, Koivu soon) couple young players enters. So in six years we are probably in a situation where we have closer to 100 NHL players.

Biggest thing for me is that we don't have to deal with players like Pokka or Jokipakka in the future tournaments, especially even near best vs best tournaments

 

[DoubleGold]

Definetly. Also we have this huge pool of first rounders/early second which were considered as eliteprospects, but haven't taken the spot in the NHL just yet. They all have potential to become good NHL players.

Vesalainen, Vaakanainen, Juolevi, Välimäki, Heponiemi, Kupari and Borgström for example.

Every time when one Finnish player retires (Filppula, Koivu soon) couple young players enters. So in six years we are probably in a situation where we have closer to 100 NHL players.

Biggest thing for me is that we don't have to deal with players like Pokka or Jokipakka in the future tournaments, especially even near best vs best tournaments

Exactly. All of them have potential to become top 6 players. Funny how many have forgotten about them.

 

[FinPanda]

Nice perspective from @Henkka (jatkoaika)

C Aleksander Barkov
C Sebastian Aho
C Mikko Koivu
C Valtteri Filppula
C Erik Haula
C Roope Hintz
C Henrik Borgström
C Kalle Kossila
C Aapeli Räsänen
C Jesperi Kotkaniemi
C Rasmus Kupari
C Aleksi Saarela
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C Sakari Manninen
C Juhani Tyrväinen
C Juho Lammikko
C Jere Sallinen
C Eetu Luostarinen
C Arttu Ilomäki

RW Mikko Rantanen
RW Kasperi Kapanen
RW Joonas Donskoi
RW Joel Armia
RW Jesse Puljujärvi
RW Markus Granlund
RW Janne Kuokkanen
RW Niklas Nordgren
RW Jesse Ylönen
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RW Kaapo Kakko
RW MÖRKÖ Anttila
RW Niko Ojamäki
RW Kristian Kuusela

LW Patrik Laine
LW Mikael Granlund
LW Teuvo Teräväinen
LW Eeli Tolvanen
LW Artturi Lehkonen
LW Miikka Salomäki
LW Kristian Vesalainen
LW Aleksi Heponiemi
LW Saku Mäenalanen
LW Markus Hännikäinen
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LW Harri Pesonen
LW Veli-Matti Savinainen
LW Toni Rajala
LW Joel Kiviranta

RD Rasmus Ristolainen
RD Sami Vatanen
RD Julius Honka
RD Ville Pokka
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RD Henri Jokiharju
RD Jani Hakanpää
RD Oliwer Kaski

LD Esa Lindell
LD Olli Määttä
LD Miro Heiskanen
LD Olli Juolevi
LD Markus Nutivaara
LD Sami Niku
LD Juuso Välimäki
LD Juuso Riikola
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LD Niko Mikkola
LD Mikko Lehtonen
LD Atte Ohtamaa
LD Miika Koivisto
LD Petteri Lindbohm

G Tuukka Rask
G Juuse Saros
G Antti Raanta
G Mikko Koskinen
G Joonas Korpisalo
G Harri Säteri
G Ville Husso
G Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen
G Kaapo Kähkönen
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G Kevin Lankinen
G Veini Vehviläinen
G Jussi Olkinuora