Hintz-Mustonen-Ikonen line played well and looks like it could be a potential line for WJC. Hintz was out best player in these games.
Rantanen, Björninen and Lehkonen didn't do anything. Expected a lot more from Lehkonen and Rantanen. Björninen was decent 2 way center.
Aho, Kalapudas, Puljujärvi, some flashes of nice play with 2 goals in the tournament but some awful defensive lapses. I don't see Aho or Kalapudas making it, Puljujärvi seems to always be the one carrying that line.
Saarela-Rauhala-Ojamäki
- Ojamäki played really well with 2 goals and nice work on PK.
- Rauhala, lost some importants faceoffs and didn't do much on the offense.
-Saarela, umm had one really stupid penalty in Sweden game, didn't notice him aside from that. Jortikka doesn't seem to like him and I don't see him making the team.
Seems like you don't dig most of our centres aside from Mustonen. Not that I disagree with your assessment, but if you figure most of them were bad, who do you see making it then? Even if Jortsu doesn't dig 'em now, he may have no choice but to pick some of them anyway.
One option could be moving Hintz down the middle, which might give us the top-six of:
Lehkonen - Mustonen - Kapanen
Rantanen - Hintz - Ikonen
For bottom-six, then:
Lammikko - Kalapudas - Puljujärvi
Saarela - Björninen - Ojamäki
Björninen was decent, but don't see much use of him in a top-six role. Which still makes Kalapudas the best option for 3C, unless Jortsu gives a shot to Kinnunen. I agree with Saarela being mostly anonymous, but given his role in 4th line, that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
Biggest dissapointment was our powerplay. Jortikka seems to have no idea how to organise it. Mäkinen, Levo, Vuorisalo and Eronen played on powerplay, instead of 4 forwards which was really weird. Hopefully we will see 4 forwards and 1 of Lyytinen/Honka in the actual tournaments.
Now this is moot critique. To me, it sounds like Jortikka has very much an idea how to do it. There's no point in using four forwards if the point is to use three and two d-men with the final team. There is nothing weird about those guys playing PP if you see 'em as nothing but placeholders. Out of those, only Levo could be of some use, but in the likely case all of that foursome will get replaced by Honka, Tuulola, Lyytinen and Ilvonen or Lintuniemi. And in case some of 'em are sidelined, at least Jortsu knows now who NOT try instead. So yeah, a little silly complaints since this was a practice tournament.