Sweden is in Europe, whether you look it from cultural, geographical, political, historical, or whateveryouwantical perspective
Speculation: Armchair GM Thread II: What did the goalie say to the puck?
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Sweden is in Europe, whether you look it from cultural, geographical, political, historical, or whateveryouwantical perspective
Bjornar Moxnes
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Well, like I said it depends how you look at it. Not right or wrong to say that
Mr Snrub
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Eh, Finland was occupied by Sweden for such a long period of time that culturally it's mostly Scandinavian. I don't think it's that ridiculous, Finland is ethnically and linguistically unique but very similar in most other ways to Sweden and Norway.
Bjornar Moxnes
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It counts as a Nordic country though. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway is Scandinavia. Oliver Bjorkstrand is the only player in the league who has is fully Scandinavian in the sense that he has well known ancestry from all 3 countries.
Talking about ethnicity, there's a bigger difference between eastern and western Finns than western Finn and other Europeans. This is purely based on some genetics mapping, and in practice there's no difference nowadays. Interesting stuff anyways for researchers who are interested in genetic diseases.
Volica
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This is off topic 
All I have to say. We win a lot of games because of a few Swedes and a Finn, all I really asked for.
All I have to say. We win a lot of games because of a few Swedes and a Finn, all I really asked for.
InfinityIggy
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I looked into it an they are all Scandinavian so I think we can move on now.
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Yeah, 100% finnish name. "Taipaleen" is the genetive form of "Taival" (a walk, journey, trek is the best translation I can come up with) and Maki (or Mäki actually, same as in Välimäki) means hill. Journey's hill that is
So your family probably lived on a hill that took a long journey to reach, or on a hill that was along some typical journey.
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That's very interesting. When he came to Canada he shortened his name to Maki. I don't blame him. Taipaleenmaki is very difficult to spell.Yeah, 100% finnish name. "Taipaleen" is the genetive form of "Taival" (a walk, journey, trek is the best translation I can come up with) and Maki (or Mäki actually, same as in Välimäki) means hill. Journey's hill that is
So your family probably lived on a hill that took a long journey to reach, or on a hill that was along some typical journey.
InfinityIggy
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BPA. If I had to guess though a forward might not be a bad option with the 31st OA.
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I could see us picking almost all defensemen in this next draft, we are very light at that position in our prospect pool.
I think teams draft BPA to an extent but a lot of it is based on trying to get high end players at each position and filling out the pool at each position in order to ice well-rounded pro teams as soon as possible. Given that our top D prospect will be Kylington since it seems like Valimaki and Andersson are here to stay, I think we almost definitely take a defenseman.
That being said if we're drafting very late in the first and he still looks good I could see us taking Spencer Knight instead. Team needs to solve its goaltending problem sooner than later.
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I somewhat agree. If its down to picking a fwd and a d-man and the fwd is the definite BPA, I think we will go with the fwd. But all things being equal I assume we will concentrate on d-men as we don't have a single one on our non-pro prospects list right now.
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BPA definitely makes the most sense in the first round by far. Past there most of your picks are long shots anyways and sometimes your GM or even head of scouting will not have even seen them play. I think out of all the rounds, the first is where we're most likely to take a forward, but I still wager it's a d-man. Looks like there will be lots of good ones available too if we're picking in the late teens.
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The only thing we can say definitively about Finland is as follows:
- it gives us good goalies
- it gives us sexy posters who try to trick you with really strong black liquorice candies and lure you to their cabin in the woods
- it gives us good goalies
- it gives us sexy posters who try to trick you with really strong black liquorice candies and lure you to their cabin in the woods
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Strong Black liquorice candies... I am hoping Cannabis infused but I suspect I am sadly mistaken.The only thing we can say definitively about Finland is as follows:
- it gives us good goalies
- it gives us sexy posters who try to trick you with really strong black liquorice candies and lure you to their cabin in the woods
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I think Dube will look like a different player at next year's camp if Treliving does the right thing and has him sent to the Heat. Still believe he can be a difference maker if he isn't rushed into the league and encouraged to play a bottom sixer's game.
Mangiapane has high end potential as well, has just taken some time to marinate. I think he should be up here this year over Dube but I doubt he's being overcooked. Also worth mentioning that Gawdin has looked good to start the year in Stockton but I'll admit that I'm higher on him than most people here.
Meanwhile on defense our top prospect is Kylington, who will probably be an NHLer but likely caps out as a #4, and Valiyev, who won't sniff the NHL. I definitely prefer a defenseman with our first pick.
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Bjornar Moxnes
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I think it's almost a rule of thumb that you never draft goalies with a 1st rounder these days.
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