(Video) 2016 World Junior Championship: Jakob Forsbacka-Karlsson and Axel Holmstrom,

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Photo: Team Sweden goaltender and New York Islanders prospect Linus Soderstrom stops one of the 17 shots he faced in Sweden’s 6-0 win over Slovakia at the 2016 IIHF World Junior Championship (courtesy of RONI REKOMAA/AFP/Getty Images)


</p>Team Sweden was hoping for a chance to settle a score with host Finland at the 2016 IIHF World Championship, and their wish has come true after the Swedes earned a semi-final berth with a 6-0 win over Slovakia in a quarterfinal game at Helsinki Ice Hall.

The win means that Sweden will face Finland in the next round, although the Swedes may have been hoping for a gold medal game showdown to turn the tables on the Finns, who won gold at this event in Sweden two years ago after defeating the Swedes in overtime on a goal by Rasmus Ristolainen.… read more

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[HeartsAlive]

Wow, JFK speaks with even less of an accent than Tuukka. Was he raised in the states or something?

 

[Fossy21]

Wow, JFK speaks with even less of an accent than Tuukka. Was he raised in the states or something?

Not as impressive as Tuukka, as Finnish is a completely different language family than Swedish and English (which are both Germanic, whereas Finnish isn't even Indo-European), Finnish lacks some sounds present in English. Swedes sometimes struggle with the th sound, but especially older Finnish players are about en par with Russians when it comes to pronunciation (usually better grammatically and with larger vocabularies, though). Especially the Finnish educational system is excellent, and neither Swedes or (to my knowledge) Finns dub English TV shows (outside of children's shows); unlike pretty much all of mainland Europe. We're all just addicted to them subtitles, can't get enough of them!

I'd wager guys like Landeskog also had little to no Swenglish coming through even before he got over to the OHL.