U17: Finnkampen, Sweden vs Finland 23-25 august

[Erikfromfin]

3 matches played between Sweden and Finland U17 in Piteå LF Arena sweden 23rd august to 25th august.

rosters
Sweden: http://www.swehockey.se/globalasset...and-august-23-25-2018/roster_swe_aug_2018.pdf
Finland: Leijonat.fi - U17 tällä joukkueella Finnkampeniin - Vastassa kolme kertaa Ruotsi

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[Pavel Buchnevich]

Who are the best players on both rosters?

 

[Erikfromfin]

Who are the best players on both rosters?

Dont know about Swedes but the Finnish team is stacked. Aatu Räty is propably number 1 euro frontrunner of 2021 draft his the best prospect also Kasper Simontaival from forwards has elite potential. Defence has 4 guys Niemelä, Sedoff, Puutio, Rafkin that all will be high draft picks. Suni, Hirvonen, Määttä, Järventie, Niemi are also good ones to watch.. basicly could name most of the team but Räty is the one cant miss prospect.

 

[JimboA]

Who are the best players on both rosters?

My knowledge is a bit limited, but I'll try to give some information. Some interesting players are unfortunately missing (Wallstedt, Holtz, Raymond, Niederbach, Johannesson and Lööf twins, all for different reasons I guess) but the depth of this age group looks to be really solid, even though we're two years away from the draft. Some will stagnate and some will take big steps of course.

D-men: Emil Andrae played 4 games in Hockeyallsvenskan as a U16 and Ivan Zivlak was named best d-man at TV-pucken. From what I've seen, I think all d-men on this roster are capable players but it's hard to single out one. Maybe Andrae.

Spoiler

Forwards: I would keep an eye on William Eklund and Zion Nybeck for sure. Daniel Torgersson is a big, strong guy with a good shot, but that's maybe more of a personal preference of mine

The upcoming WHC U17 for Sweden will hopefully be better than last year...

 

[Erikfromfin]

changes to Finland roster

Pärssinen, Sedoff, Mäenpää, Simontaival cut
Nyman, Paaso, Parviainen, Korpialho added

 

[Erikfromfin]

Finland lineup

Goalie:
1 Joel Blomqvist
Backup:
31 Max Väyrynen
1:
12 Veikka Hahl - 13 Roni Hirvonen - 25 Oliver Suni
4 Joona Lehmus - 2 Kasper Puutio
2:
32 Roby Järventie - 23 Aatu Räty - 22 Eero Niemi
10 Eemil Viro - 5 Topi Niemelä
3:
28 Niki Korpialho - 21 Joel Määttä - 15 Valtteri Karnaranta
3 Nikolas Ketonen - 34 Ruben Rafkin
4:
7 Iivari Säkkinen - 27 Jesse Seppälä - 18 Joonas Parviainen
37 Arttu Paaso - 6 Luka Nyman

 

[Erikfromfin]

Ruben Rafkin and Eemil Viro been impressive for Finns midway through second period

 

[Erikfromfin]

Sweden wins 2-1. Swedish goalie was very good.

Top 5 finns for me Hirvonen, Määttä, Viro, Rafkin, Puutio

Suni, Räty, Niemi werent very good

 

[JimboA]

Didn’t watch the game, but according to swehockey.se:

Swe - Fin
1-0 Zion Nybeck (Elliot Ekmark)
2-0 Wiktor Nilsson (William Eklund)
2-1 Roni Hirvonen (unassisted)

Shots: 25-32

 

[JimboA]

Game 2

Swe - Fin 3-5
1-0 Mateusz Szurowski (Elias Stenman & Oskar Magnusson)
1-1 Oliver Suni (unassisted)
1-2 Eero Niemi (Aatu Räty & Kasper Puutio)
1-3 Aatu Räty (Oliver Suni)
1-4 Oliver Suni (Joona Lehmus & Kasper Puutio)
2-4 Alexander Ljungkrantz (Daniel Torgersson)
3-4 Erik Hedlund (Zion Nybeck & Elliot Ekmark)
3-5 Roni Hirvonen (Iivari Säkkinen & Oliver Suni)

Shots: 27-22

 

[Erikfromfin]

Game 1 goals

Game 2 goals

Finland 2nd goal was clearly Rätys also the statkeepers got it wrong

 

[Hokinaittii]

Räty looking solid in those goals.

 

[Erikfromfin]

And Räty scores again nice goal minute into game 3

 

[Erikfromfin]

Eero Niemi 2-0 on powerplay

I think they gave the goal to Joel Määttä when it was again clearly tipped in by Niemi

 

[Erikfromfin]

Kasper Puutio 3-0

Sweden gets one back right away 3-1 William Hallen scorer

and Sweden gets another one on powerplay 3-2 Erik Hedlund scorer

 

[Erikfromfin]

Iivari Säkkinen 4-2 empty netter

Game over. Finland wins


3rd period goals

dont trust the official stats they are bonkers



Best Finns in these 3 matches for me were Roni Hirvonen, Aatu Räty and Nikolas Ketonen. From Sweden number 20 Nybeck? was impressive

 

[kelsier]

Räty looked as good as advertised in those goals. Were these games viewable by the way? If so I'd have tuned in for sure.
Guessing they don't use tapes in small youth tournaments/friendly events, and the statistics turns flawed.