WC: Team Finland 2019 men's World Championships roster talk

[JJTT]

Don't really understand why Luostarinen gets so little icetime, clearly the best center we have besides Manninen.

Hopefully Lammikko can play in the playoff games, Ilomäki is useless. No idea how he even made the team over Ruotsalainen.

 

[FinPanda]

Kakko is our lord and saviour. Please our lord take us as far as you (mighty) can.

Too far?

 

[Svedu]

Kakko is our lord and saviour. Please our lord take us as far as you mighty can.

Too far?

Not at all. Kakko is Voldemort for our opponents. God damn is that kid great or what! I´m enjoying every bit of this. Love him, i bloody love him.

 

[Svedu]

Luostarinen could end up as a center for Teräväinen in the future? Otherwise for Saarela and Mäenalanen or Kuokkanen. Canes will be such a joy for Finns to follow.

 

[Mestaruus]

Russia, Czechs or Switzerland. No Sweden.

Agreed, avoid Sweden in the QF at all costs. They will just beat our team by 1 goal margin in a boring fashion. However I would be completely fine facing Sweden in a semifinal game or in the final, I think Finland would have a better shot at beating them in those games for some reason.

 

[Merya]

Sweden has added NHLers last two tournaments and it hasnt hurt them.

Sweden has been full of NHL players the past couple years and this year.
Adding a couple NHL stars to the roster of Finnish jorneymen and a child could backfire. I think Jalonen made the right choice in this years perspective. The team has genuine spirit and they've trained together for several weeks. It really is a TEAM.

 

[Merya]

Sihvonen's pass to the czechs was what clinched in that game... Growing up here in Sweden even swedes rooted for us that year...

I thought Swedes usually cheer for Finland in neutral games. Same way as I cheer for Sweden usually, except last year when I really wanted Switzerland to do the upset win.

 

[crowi]

I thought Swedes usually cheer for Finland in neutral games. Same way as I cheer for Sweden usually, except last year when I really wanted Switzerland to do the upset win.

That sounds like bullshit to me.

Edit: As in you may cheer for SWE, Finns generally do not.

 

[Merya]

That sounds like bull**** to me.

Which part?

 

[crowi]

Which part?

The comment about cheering for SWE is only you, so guess I'm wrong there. I read your comment wrong - Finns generally definitely do not cheer for SWE ever. I'll edit my post to reflect that.

 

[Merya]

The comment about cheering for SWE is only you, so guess I'm wrong there. I read your comment wrong - Finns generally definitely do not cheer for SWE ever. I'll edit my post to reflect that.

Yes I was speaking only for myself. But it's not that rare either. I guess you're not originally from Helsinki?
I cheer for Sweden when they play against Russia, USA or Canada.

 

[crowi]

Yes I was speaking only for myself. But it's not that rare either. I guess you're not originally from Helsinki?

Yeah, really far from Vantaa - can't believe it took me 15 min to get there to heart of Helsinki.

 

[mattihp]

I thought Swedes usually cheer for Finland in neutral games. Same way as I cheer for Sweden usually, except last year when I really wanted Switzerland to do the upset win.

Growing up in Sweden I can refute this directly. Most often they just try to find things to put finns down with... There are exceptions of course but even the guys who somewhat like to see finnish success will still never miss a chance to embellish some finnish mistake...

 

[thestudent]

Sweden has been full of NHL players the past couple years and this year.
Adding a couple NHL stars to the roster of Finnish jorneymen and a child could backfire. I think Jalonen made the right choice in this years perspective. The team has genuine spirit and they've trained together for several weeks. It really is a TEAM.

Keep drinking the Kool Aid. Reality tends to come back fast and hard, especially during the QF. Finland does not have the talent to beat the USA, Canada, Russia, or Sweden

 

[Zanstrat]

Haven’t been able to watch any games unfortunately, but how is Kaski looking? I’m a Wings fan so interested to see if people think he can make the NHL immediately

Kaski has been a disappointment for me so far. He's in trouble with the puck, which was unheard of in Liiga. His strengths are not in the defensive end, but he has managed that part of the game decently. Doubt he's NHL-ready come next season.

 

[Star Ocean]

Swedish commentators are cheering hard for finland. They were legit pissed when USA scored 3-2.

 

[mattihp]

Kaski has been a disappointment for me so far. He's in trouble with the puck, which was unheard of in Liiga. His strengths are not in the defensive end, but he has managed that part of the game decently. Doubt he's NHL-ready come next season.

In this world champs he looks abit like Tom Koivisto.

Looks fine in his positioning defensively. Until the puck comes close to him..

He's been alright though.

 

[FinPanda]

We have had some good teams who have struggled to clinch a place in the quarterfinal but I believe we have clinched it already with this team. I don't want to count it, but Slovakia can't go ahead of us and Denmark will play against Canada, Slovakia and USA and they won't get 9 points from those three games.

I am terrified of the quarterfinal game already though.. every opponent will be very difficult.

 

[Lambo]

Keep drinking the Kool Aid. Reality tends to come back fast and hard, especially during the QF. Finland does not have the talent to beat the USA, Canada, Russia, or Sweden

Good exremly hard working(+Kakko) beats talent.

 

[king89]

We have had some good teams who have struggled to clinch a place in the quarterfinal but I believe we have clinched it already with this team. I don't want to count it, but Slovakia can't go ahead of us and Denmark will play against Canada, Slovakia and USA and they won't get 9 points from those three games.

I am terrified of the quarterfinal game already though.. every opponent will be very difficult.

I'm hoping for Schweiz, i think they suits us the most.

 

[FiLe]

We have had some good teams who have struggled to clinch a place in the quarterfinal but I believe we have clinched it already with this team. I don't want to count it, but Slovakia can't go ahead of us and Denmark will play against Canada, Slovakia and USA and they won't get 9 points from those three games.

It's a mathematical clinch already. We're in. Did you forget that Canada and USA still play against each other? So if Denmark somehow gets nine points out of the remaining games, both Canada and USA can't get past 13. And if both get three point wins from their other remaining game and then USA beats Canada in OT, all Finland, Canada and USA would have 13 (if we lose the rest), creating a three-way tie which would be broken up by the points accrued against each other. Finland would have 4 points, USA would have 4, Canada would have 1.

In any other scenario, one of them would fall short of 13 in the miraculous event that Denmark performs a sky-rocket rally.

A three-way tie between FIN/DEN/USA or FIN/DEN/CAN is also possible, but in the former event Finland would have 4 points (out of maximum of 6 available), and in the latter 6, meaning Finland can't land at the bottom of the tie in those scenarios either.

Edit: A four-way tie between FIN/DEN/USA/CAN is also possible, but FIN would have 7 points in such a scenario (out of maximum of 9), and again could not finish at the bottom.

 

[FinPanda]

It's a mathematical clinch already. We're in. Did you forget that Canada and USA still play against each other? So if Denmark somehow gets nine points out of the remaining games, both Canada and USA can't get past 13. And if both get three point wins from their other remaining game and then USA beats Canada in OT, all Finland, Canada and USA would have 13 (if we lose the rest), creating a three-way tie which would be broken up by the points accrued against each other. Finland would have 4 points, USA would have 4, Canada would have 1.

In any other scenario, one of them would fall short of 13 in the miraculous event that Denmark performs a sky-rocket rally.

A three-way tie between FIN/DEN/USA or FIN/DEN/CAN is also possible, but in the former event Finland would have 4 points (out of maximum of 9 available), and in the latter 6, meaning Finland can't land in the bottom of the tie in those scenarios either.

Yeah I forget they play against each other. And just like I said, I didn't do the math. Thanks for you doing it.

 

[Eye of Ra]

whats the name of the goal song?

 

[FiLe]

whats the name of the goal song?

VilleGalle - "Peto on irti"

The Finnish name of the song translates to English as "The Beast is Loose".

 

[Finnswiss]

The official word is DTD.

What does mean DTD?