TK79 said:I've also heard Joensuu being called the "Finnish Mats Sundin". Sounds good..
Korkki said:Osala has played only few games on tier 2 league this season and he plays Junior A 2nd tier level. He has not been good overall. The 2nd best Finnish on 2006 is Jonas Enlund from HIFK.
Some stats, Key: Pos on team scoring, name, Gms, Gls, Asst, Pts, +, -, +/- tot, Pmin, shots, shot%
Osala (junior A division stats are not complete):
Mestis: 27. Osala Oskar 5 0 1 1 0 1 -1 2 5 0
Junior A division 1. round: 3. Osala Oskar 10 8 8 16 0 0 0 8 0
Junior A division 2. round: 6. Osala Oskar 3 1 2 3 0 0 0 16 0
Enlund:
Junior A SM-liiga: 2. Enlund Jonas 23 8 12 20 23 14 +9 6 91 8,79
For comparing, Joensuu:
Junior A Sm-liiga: 4. Joensuu Jesse 10 6 7 13 16 14 +2 12 43 13,95
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AND from Ilves-Ässät game today:
34.55 Jesse Joensuu 1-2 (Juha Kiilholma, Aki Heino)
Jesse scored his first goal in SENIOR level, in a league which is in top three of the world (according to NHL scouts who were interviewed on Finnish TV) and he is not even 18 yet.
THE NEXT ONE #87 said:If there is a draft 2005, we all know who r the top rated players.
Who is the star 2006? I´ve heard there r an american and a fin player which should have tremendous talent? is it true?
Who will be first overall in 2007 mock draft?
I mean since a long time we did know that Sid and Alex were the elite of their drafts. Is it in 2006 n 07 the same?
Who might be a future superstar?
Amazing stats in junior A.....this kid could be much like Crosby in terms of hype. I think Crosby was playing Midget AAA and dominating at the age of 14.bonefizzle said:future as in way in the future john tavares... he is a 1990 birthday, can't be drafted to the ohl until 2006.. and has a late birthday so for the purposes of the nhl draft 2009.. if u haven't heard of this kid yet you soon will.. he is only in grade 9 played with the marlies last year in toronto and won the major bantam all ontarios and was on the allstar team for the tournament.. tsn has already talked about him.. http://www.tsn.ca/columnists/bob_mckenzie.asp?id=106431
JasonMacIsaac said:Amazing stats in junior A.....this kid could be much like Crosby in terms of hype. I think Crosby was playing Midget AAA and dominating at the age of 14.
There were three head scouts interviewed in MTV3 -channel's Tulosruutu (sports program) just the same day I wrote that post. At least Columbus's and NY Rangers guys and they all said that Finland belongs to top 3 leagues of the world. I think they meant the situation now when NHL is out.pavel datsyuk said:NHL, RSL, SEL are ahead of the Sm-Liiga. Maybe even the AHL is as well, sans lock-out players that is. I wanna know who these scouts are.
JasonMacIsaac said:Amazing stats in junior A.....this kid could be much like Crosby in terms of hype. I think Crosby was playing Midget AAA and dominating at the age of 14.
THE NEXT ONE #87 said:I think it´s too early to talk about him. probably in 2 years we can start talks aout him but not yet.