Comment: The Lions share turned into a worrying plunge-these NHL stars now have enough to prove | In a brief sport

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The success of the Lions of the Finnish Hockey Corner Stone has always been built into the effect of the collective.

Traditionally, Finnish players have not fished personal awards in international top tournaments. Finland really needs the unity of the collective when the NHL’s four -country tournament is hit for the rest of the week.

At the individual level, the situation is at least worrying during the tournament.

While Finnish hockey is living its all-time flourishing for the NHL elite, this season has not been a special fireworks display in Finnish-or at least it can be said that better has been seen.

There are still elite exceptional individuals at the tip, but how many of these will come to the upcoming tournament on a hot stage?

If one of the NHL points exchange is to be the top 50 score of this year: one Finn will hold one Finn: Alexander Barkov.

From the top players Carolina Sebastian Aho and Dallas Roope Hintz By no means have they played the best NHL season of their careers. Both are good, but for one reason or another, neither has reached the high flight seen in previous seasons at any time.

Mikko Rantanen has applied for himself after the Carolina transfer.

Looking at the most effective Finns in the NHL in 2025, the gaze turns to the so -called second basket. At the top of the four Teuvo Teräväinen as well as traded to Dallas Mikael Granlund. At the top of the six you can find Seattle in the middle of the season that has changed Kaapo Kakko.

The hottest Finnish individual under the tournament is probably the nine hits in the previous 19 previous matches and has collected the Salon +13 in power statistics Artturi Lehkonen.

Chosen as a joker card Patrik Laine At least it is not.

Laine’s choice for the Lion sparked a strong debate at the end of the year, but it soon became silent. The selection was praised as he had banged eight hits after his return to the first nine matches. During the Tournament Week, the situation has turned upside down.

Laine has not managed to score ten matches and the eight previous power balance is -9.

Late Sunday night, Laine played only 11 minutes, third least her team.

So the confidence in the coaching is starting to be on the card, because playing evenly does not withstand daylight. The general profile or confidence of Tesoma’s cannon hardly hopes when you come to the tournament.

Defense hard

The biggest notch was born during the tournament for defense. Lions could have lost almost anyone’s attacker and survive, but the number one defender Miro Heiskanen Exhaust is an unrelated place.

Heiskanen is on the sidelines for weeks due to a knee injury. At the last minute, the defense also fell excellent in Philadelphia Rasmus Ristolainen.

Of those involved, especially Juuso Välimäki The situation in Utah is difficult. At the same time as the team’s defense equipment has been healed, the role of a volatile Nokia defender has shrunk – recently until the auditorium. The starting point is far from optimal.

For replacement players Bravery has played a good basic game in New York but Ottawan Nikolas Matinpalo In the NHL, there is a wound of less than ten minutes of wound.

For defense, all cards have been translated. There is only one option on the NHL level: Winnipeg Ville Heinolawho does not fit in their tough team in practice at all.

The goalkeeper has traditionally been a strength for Finland. However, even hot mills are not available now.

Juuse Saros He belongs to the elite of his place, but behind the team who played a catastrophic season, the season has become difficult for Hämeenlinna. For 2025, the percentage of the fight is down in less than 89, and the average of the released has clearly turned over three.

The goals scored in relation to the goal in Saros will be six and a half hits in the frost in 2025. The reading is the second weakest in the 70 goalkeepers listing.

Buffalon Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and Vancouver Kevin Lankinen Again, these have not been struck by strange statistics last week. The duo’s percentage of fighting has fallen below 90 this year. Only the average of Lankinen’s released is below the three goals.

Familiar stencil

Fortunately, hockey is a team game.

Although as an individual, many Finnish players have gone through challenging periods throughout the season, the power of the collective sometimes has a wonderful effect.

Changing the landscape, leaving the NHL arc and a national team environment can provide many people with a life hole that opens the dams.

Who still remembers how difficult in the middle of the season Teemu Selänne At the Sochi Olympics 2014 shone?

This time, Finland’s strengths are a good team spirit, high quality five and special situations, and a goalkeeper game cast in concrete. Whatever happened earlier in the season, the Lion has all the lunch to build a success on these themes this time.

It is quite possible that many individuals will draw new power from their lion season. Successes in the upcoming tournament may bear fruit far into the spring even in the NHL.

It is clear that, on the basis of recent weeks, or due to the latest absence, the Lions’ share is not at its legal point. But what would be a more tasty starting point for the Finnish hockey team to the value tournament than the one with as little expectations as possible?

Especially now that the tournament is driven through a very fast schedule, the basic values ​​of the Finnish hockey room table are appreciated in the unpredictable.

Listen to the latest Ikan Änäri episode below or in Arena. The topic is the NHL’s four -country tournament.