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Lets hear about the reason then. Examples you've given somehow tells me you got none.
Granlund case was planned way before the "scandalious" parting with Kärpät happened. Kärpät handled it badly, but the reason why the whole family left to Helsinki was nothing Kärpät had to do with directly.
Aho or Puljujärvi struggled? That's just complete and utter bullshit. Aho scored the FEL Championship deciding goal in 7th game OT as a 17-year old. Then went PPG in the next season and over it in the playoffs. That's struggling? Or do you mean the time when the roster just was so stacked he couldn't get a spot and was loaned to Ässät? Kid took the chance, proved he is good enough for a roster spot and kept on developing and performing. That's somehow struggling? Puljujärvi struggled just because he wasn't mature enough, and that wasn't anything the team could do, as we all remember what happened in his first stint in the Oilers. But what happened next? Oh yeah, he came back home to "struggle"? f*** no, kid came to get his composure back, changed his game and is now back on developing track, not a bust what it seemed like.
If you need to talk about struggling players in Kärpät system, there's Arttu Ruotsalainen as an example. who just couldn't outperform his peers for a shot. Those peers happened to be Aho and Puljujärvi, with Kalapudas and such. It isn't easy.
Reason why one prospect struggles in Kärpät? Yes you guessed it: it is highly competitive. That's only a good thing, because if you show you can compete and come on top, you're proven you're ready for the next step. I'd take a player who didn't shy away from a challenge 10/10, rather than a player who left to find an easier path. Competition is nothing but a good thing in developing players, this isn't f***ing Nuori Suomi anymore. </OT>
And back to topic. Rätys next year will be much more telling about his projection, rather than the past. He is healthy now, and most likely will play full season up with Kärpät FEL team.
I write just quickly as following out own youngsters have been my passion and while I may be wrong in many things I firmly believe this truth (which is kind of in the middle) is pretty much the correct truth
Granlund: Fans wanted Granlund to the roster long before Kärpät reacted and it was too late by that time. HIFK obviously offered more resposibility and salary and at the time Kärpät was a bit of a mess. What bothered me was there were some nobodys in the roster but no chance for Granlund. It's possible Granlund wanted to move to Helsinki, but I'm sure Kärpät could've found a way to keep him. In the end losing Granlund cost his brother Granlund, too.
Aho: Got a place in the roster when his offensive production was very limited and at the time I felt a big reason was that his dad was the sports boss in the team. Anyway, he ended up scoring a champion-winning goal (7th final OT) and was a beast next year so this was perfectly done from the team.
Puljujarvi: IMO he would've deserved to be kept in the team two years before the draft as he wasn't the worst forward in the team, but all in all good job from the team/organisation anyway with Pulju.
Saarijärvi and Kuokkanen: We lost them too easily, but I won't get deeper.
NHL, but he didn't perform strongly at all.
Arttu Ruotsalainen: I understand Kärpät can't keep everyone but I'm not 100% sure there was nothing they could do about keeping Ruotsalainen. I agree it's hard with the young talents you mentioned, but sometimes one could be creative. Like sign a contract and rent the player to a smaller FEL team for some time. Worked with Aho and could've worked with Ruotsalainen too. Or maybe spend a bit more to make the veterans slightly better than they are and thus give one more roster place to a youngster. But like I said I also understand some talents are lost on the way.
Topi Niemelä: Still in the team, a very promising future NHL defender. Good job with him so no complaints.
I won't get back to this topic as I don't want to get deeper and I've got a busy day ahead. Well this is a bit OT anyway. As my final note I'd like to say in general Kärpät is an extremely good team when it comes to junior work. But there's been some bad failures and they failed badly with handling Räty. But I believe this season will be different and Kärpät AND Räty will do better. Everything's still possible, the extreme talent hasn't gone anywhere.