The best young people in Finland in recent years have never been able to measure their skills against the absolute hockey tip. Now the opportunity opens up.
The NHL tournament of four hockey, which will begin next week in North America, is a great event of a sport.
– Yes, this tournament tastes good. If it is asked for top players, it tastes a hundred. This has been awaited for a very long time, says the expert Ismo Lehkonen.
Lehkonen advises that almost the entire frame of the Finnish race is coming from the Malmö U20 World Championship Group 2014 and in Helsinki’s home competition from the young U20-MM gold players in 2016.
That is, there are now players born in 1994-95 and 1996-97.
– Actually all but Mikael Granlund Recognize each other and have made almost side -by -side journey together. Now they are finally able to show what kind of players they are internationally, the expert is enthusiastic.
The last time the NHL players participated in international tournaments in 2016 at the World Cup and in 2014 at the SOTH Olympics.
Hockey expert Jesse Saarinen says he has so far been moderate about the NHL tournament ahead.
– Most of the top players in the tournament are in their best age right now.
– There’s a US Auston Matthews And partners who have the same situation as Finnish elite age ranges, so it is only now now that the national team level is offered for proper level measurement. Here, too, we are in the tongue, Saarinen knows.
Saarinen points out that if you compare the Stockholm EHT tournament that started on Thursday and the NHL’s four-country tournament that starts in a week, we are practically talking about “two different sports”.
-For myself, the game skills have not been enough for that level of the NHL Tournament, but for the Euro Hockey Tour. After all, that NHL event is just so much tougher tournament than EHT games.
-That’s why they are played separately and with different teams, says Saarinen, who played EHT in 2016.
Are you tackled in the NHL tournament?
There are a lot of club teammates in the NHL tournament, so one would expect that the matches will not be seen in the match. Especially when the NHL season’s final climax is only later.
– Canada has a reputation in the game, but it is a home tournament and a pre -tournament before a year of Olympics. So the competition for playgrounds is really tough. It is difficult for me to see that this team starts playing any star -level hump that doesn’t tackle, says Lehkonen.
Saarinen completely compasses the “age”.
– A professional is always proud of his or her own doing and business card. Yes, they want to leave their best print in the crowded home hall. That’s why I believe they will take their tackle all the way to the end.
At the end of the ice hockey broadcast, the studio team was asked which teams would play in the culmination of the tournament, ie in the finals starting at 3 pm on February 21 at 3 pm.
Lehkonen popped Canada and Finland in the final. Saarinen, on the other hand, strongly believed that the United States would face Finland in the finals. Studio host Jussi Paasi He saw that Canada and the United States are seen in meeting the best.
On Wednesday, the NHL’s four -country tournament was discussed in the hockey round. You can listen to the entire three -hour broadcast at Arena or below.