Hahaha, Kärpät would beat any AHL team 10/10. Oilers would have a chance to win 3 or 4 if they are on their a-game
Second rate euro team is better than the worst nhl team. I doubt Connor MacDavid would even have guts to step in to same rink with allmighty Lasse Kukkonen
I'm sorry for my countryboyness. Congratulations! Did you have a big parade?
I didn't see any Kärpät games there but I get your point. I disagree though.
Can you tell me though why team Finland's (full of Liiga players) victories over stacked Sweden, Russia and Canada (twice) is irrelevant, but Minnesota Wild's victory in exhibition game over poor Ilves Tampere is?
Your argument was that Karpat (a European CLUB team) could beat the Oilers (an Nhl CLUB team) 6 or 7 games out of 10.
There is no data to support this statement. These teams have never played each other. We can only look to analogue data of
i) Karpat vs NHL teams
ii) Edmonton vs Euro league teams, and
iii) Other NHL teams vs Euro league teams (each as analogues for Edmonton and Karpat respectively)
The performance of your national team is of zero relevance. Nobody is arguing that a concentration of Finland's best players is not formidable. The argument is about club teams vs club teams, where talent is more dispersed.
On i) I am not aware of any data, google did not help, please bring some to the table if any exists
On ii) In 2019 Edmonton played Cologne and beat them. So they are 1 and 0 vs euro club teams
On iii) the vast predominance of data suggests that Euro club teams from any euro club league are not competitive with NHL clubs, even when said NHL clubs are not playing their top lineup and the Euro club teams are playing at home (and one would presume are motivated to "make a point" about their competitiveness in front of their fans).
You've brought no relevant data. Just backhanded insults. The data in this debate does not support your assertion. Game over.