FInland at the olympics / world cups
1998: Bronze
2002: ---------
2004: second place
2006: Silver
2010: bronze
2014: bronze
Lot of top 3 when we think of Canada-Usa-Sweden/Russia being above them and Czech for a while winning, maybe some Fins have been underrated ? some of their players that never played in the nhl, TImonen ? .
Is it possible for Selanne to be a tad underrated in some quarter, for example we can often hear that his rookie season being his best without a doubt, which point to his DPE years to be underappreciated ?
Long "prime" Selanne in international play.
Season | Age | Tm | Lg | GP | G | A | PTS |
1991-92 | 21 | Finland | Olympics | 8 | 7 | 4 | 11 |
1995-96 | 25 | Finland | WC-A | 6 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
1996-97 | 26 | Finland | W-Cup | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
1997-98 | 27 | Finland | Olympics | 5 | 4 | 6 | 10 |
1998-99 | 28 | Finland | WC-A | 11 | 3 | 8 | 11 |
2001-02 | 31 | Finland | Olympics | 4 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
2002-03 | 32 | Finland | WC-A | 7 | 8 | 3 | 11 |
2004-05 | 34 | Finland | W-Cup | 6 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
2005-06 | 35 | Finland | Olympics | 8 | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| | | | 59 | 40 | 34 | 74 |
He had way more international success than playoff success (Jets-Ducks did not made them often, injured riddle sharks then has an old veteran) during his career and in North America we tend to value one much more than the other.
Strange saying that about someone in the all-time top 20 in points and almost top 10 in goals with 3 Rocket, he his less underrated as a goal scorer than Jagr for sure... but some season he did a lot for his team... without Kariya those ducks could be quite weak:
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Resulting in only 15 playoffs games as a Ducks, hard to write your name in history in that situation compared to early Canucks Bure.
There some ways to adjust goals that say only Howe-Ovechkin-Jagr-Gretzky scored more adjusted goals than him.
He is super high in some corner:
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But him some scoring only 22 less points than Jagr from 97 to 99 and being +58 on the Ducks team could be lost.