Sweden top 2 lines vs Finland top 2 lines

[MrOT]

Which top 6 + top 4 are currently better?

Sweden:

Nylander - Pettersson - Zibanejad
Forsberg - Bäckström - Landeskog
Hedman - Karlsson
OEL - Klingberg

Finland:

Aho - Barkov - Rantanen
Teravainen - Granlund - Laine
Heiskanen - Vatanen
Lindell - Ristolainen

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[Peat]

Sweden. The forwards might be close - would have to think about it more - but the dmen are nowhere near.

 

[Bizzare]

Sweden. The forwards might be close - would have to think about it more - but the dmen are nowhere near.

Agreed, a poll of just the top 6 would be a lot more fun.

 

[ESH]

Do I have to use the players you used or can I make my own lines

 

[LeafChief]

Sweden by a good margin.

 

[Machinehead]

The defenses are light-years apart.

 

[CanadienShark]

On paper, hands down Sweden. In a tournament, I could Sweden being upset by Finland. The talent is close enough, and the Finns seem to consistently play a great team game.

 

[The Red Line]

Yeah I think its a little closer than the results show, though still clearly Sweden due to the defense. Thing is, that Finland team will age a lot better, so if we revisited with the same players in a year or two it could be a different story.

Those results, though, yeesh.

 

[c2oh2o]

Generally in HF Pettersson is highly overrated, Barkov slightly overrated and Aho + Rantanen underrated. I voted too close to call.

 

[Ben White]

Nylander < Aho
Pettersson >~ Barkov
Zibanejad ~ Rantanen
Forsberg ~ Teravainen
Backstrom > Granlund
Landeskog < Laine
Hedman > Heiskanen
Karlsson >> Vatanen
OEL >> Lindell
Klingberg >> Risto

Forwards almost even Steven
Defense another universe

 

[Lambo]

Nylander < Aho
Pettersson >~ Barkov
Zibanejad ~ Rantanen
Forsberg ~ Teravainen
Backstrom > Granlund
Landeskog < Laine
Hedman > Heiskanen
Karlsson >> Vatanen
OEL >> Lindell
Klingberg >> Risto

Forwards almost even Steven
Defense another universe

For me is Barkov over Pettersson and Terävainen over Forsberg.

 

[Lambo]

I would take Aho as a Center with TT instead Granny!

 

[hamzarocks]

Finland's defense is terrible. They have one top pairing guy in heiskanen and one fringe top 2 in lindell. Risto and vatanen are number 4s. Sweden has 4 number 1s on their defense and they could have had players like dahlin/ekholm instead of klingberg