All Time Finnish Draft Continued

[Jyssy]

I think that best player left out was Ilpo Koskela, first ever World Championship all-star member from Finland

 

[Chased By Trolls]

Didn't Sampe pick him at some point?

Edit: He did actually, in the 13th round
2.Kiekko-Vantaa D Ilpo Koskela

I think there were some very nice goalies that I was surprised no one picked, for example Hurme and Noronen.

 

[ES]

No one picked Pasi Nurminen.

Marko Kiprusoff was only 1995 World Champion who wasn't picked.

 

[ES]

A very nice team One little note, though

This is only my extremely biased opinion, but I think you're wasting your best talents putting your best center in the very unnatural post of LW, and at the same time using your 2nd best RW as first line center. I'm very biased, but that doesn't seem to make much sense when you're pretty stacked on C.

Maybe I must fix the team a little:

Tamminen-Jalo-Lehtinen
Riihijärvi-Ojanen-Oksanen
Järvenpää-Forss-Arbelius
Lehterä-Krykov-Kapanen

Numminen-Eloranta
Lehtonen-Kukkonen
Mesikämmen-Alanko

Myllys
Markkanen

 

[Padawan]

No one picked Pasi Nurminen.

Marko Kiprusoff was only 1995 World Champion who wasn't picked.

Nurminen was a surprise to me that he wasn't picked. Kiprusoff wasn't, and I think most of us knows why

 

[Korkki]

nice goalies that I was surprised no one picked, for example Hurme and Noronen.

Hurme, Noronen, Nurminen, Lehto, Paavola not picked. What it shows... We have a helluva level in goaltending.

 

[Sampe]

Nurminen was a surprise to me that he wasn't picked. Kiprusoff wasn't, and I think most of us knows why

Gotta agree on Nurminen - the biggest surprise in the draft IMO - but c'mon...Marko Kiprusoff has had a very fine career. He was extremely reliable in his first three international tournaments and actually led all defensemen in points in the '94 Olympics. He's played in nearly 200 games for Finland. There were many defensemen in this draft whose careers don't compare to Kiprusoff's.

 

[Chased By Trolls]

Maybe I must fix the team a little:

Tamminen-Jalo-Lehtinen
Riihijärvi-Ojanen-Oksanen
Järvenpää-Forss-Arbelius
Lehterä-Krykov-Kapanen

Numminen-Eloranta
Lehtonen-Kukkonen
Mesikämmen-Alanko

Myllys
Markkanen

Much better

Totally forgot about Nurminen. I would have taken him in the last round but I must have thought he had gone ages ago for some reason. I agree on Kiprusoff too, there where quite a few lesser dmen picked.

 

[Raimo Sillanpää]

Having missed our pick (long bachelor party *hangover*)

Pietarinkadun Painonvartijat end the draft by selecting:
Toni Koivisto!

Esa Tikkanen - Raimo Helminen - Sami Kapanen
Petteri Nokelainen - Jesse Joensuu - Lauri Tukonen
Antti Virtanen - Esa Pirnes - Toni Mäkiaho
Toni Koivisto - Valtter Filppula - Niklas Hagman

Joni Pitkänen - Erik Hämäläinen
Juha Rantasila - Simo Saarinen
Toni Söderholm - Sami Lepistö

Wetzell
Ketterer

 

[Padawan]

You can find the final teams and the poll in here.