I think it was equally Marjamäki and players.
We finally have difference makers on our team. Almost two lines of them, but they didn´t make the difference when everything was on the line. I didn´t feel like watching Marjamäki hockey this time. He did manage to change his game somewhat. In a way you could say he did "let the kids play". Even if that may have been partly mistake. When things got tougher neither the key players or the coach had the tools to fix thngs. We lost three times while being favourites. Too inexperienced team.
Also the physical game. Especially showing in the Germany game. We are seriously lacking. We may have now speed and skill, but you can´t forget the strenght. You can do only that much by positioning (which was pretty bad from our whole defence for the whole tournamet) I challenge people to name our top 5 defensive Dman at this time. It´s hard.
Center department in big picture looks prettu worrying. Marjamäki could have made better choices, but there wasn´t much to choose from after Kontiola, Koskiranta, Kemppainen and Lajunen declined.
Also we are seriously lackind depth overall. Olympics showed that our European elite is not really on the level where it use to be. And when the European "elite" declined or retired from NT (Centers, Kukkonen, Pyörälä, Hartikainen, Hietanen, Lepistö, Ohtamaa and Koskinen) this is the team we end up with.
We finally have difference makers on our team. Almost two lines of them, but they didn´t make the difference when everything was on the line. I didn´t feel like watching Marjamäki hockey this time. He did manage to change his game somewhat. In a way you could say he did "let the kids play". Even if that may have been partly mistake. When things got tougher neither the key players or the coach had the tools to fix thngs. We lost three times while being favourites. Too inexperienced team.
Also the physical game. Especially showing in the Germany game. We are seriously lacking. We may have now speed and skill, but you can´t forget the strenght. You can do only that much by positioning (which was pretty bad from our whole defence for the whole tournamet) I challenge people to name our top 5 defensive Dman at this time. It´s hard.
Center department in big picture looks prettu worrying. Marjamäki could have made better choices, but there wasn´t much to choose from after Kontiola, Koskiranta, Kemppainen and Lajunen declined.
Also we are seriously lackind depth overall. Olympics showed that our European elite is not really on the level where it use to be. And when the European "elite" declined or retired from NT (Centers, Kukkonen, Pyörälä, Hartikainen, Hietanen, Lepistö, Ohtamaa and Koskinen) this is the team we end up with.
