Why Finnish players are not well-positioned in the 2025 Draft Prospect lists?

[mattihp]

Liiga's level has very little to do with undrafted prospects since few of them play at that level. A bigger issue is too many foreigners and not enough playing time for young players, Lukko is a good example of that.

There absolutely are far too many teams in the junior leagues, thankfully this year there have been a couple less teams in both U16 and U20 league. As age groups get smaller making the leagues smaller has to be the focus in the future as well.

Liiga doesn't have too many foreigners, but a too high of a percentage of them are average players, taking ice time from Finnish players.

 

[Hntz]

Liiga's level has very little to do with undrafted prospects since few of them play at that level. A bigger issue is too many foreigners and not enough playing time for young players, Lukko is a good example of that.

Liiga’s level directly affects the level of junior leagues. If most of the best prospects get to graduate to Liiga very early, it means lesser competition in the juniors. I do agree that there are too many junior teams and the whole structure of the leagues are bad.