Really surprising Finnish goalkeepers are emerging in the NHL playoffs, writes Tommi Seppälä, NH Sport’s journalist for Urheilun.
You can’t start a career in the NHL playoffs much more handsomely: Ville Husson the first match in the fabulous big dance ended in victory as well as 37 fight zero games. Husso has been one of the toughest vescar sensations of the current NHL season and there is no end in sight to the story.
Zero playing as a tough Minnesota guest was the latest demonstration of Husson’s ability to take on even greater responsibility in the NHL. And there was really nothing new about this season. Husso has lost only one of his thirteen previous starts in regular time.
There is a tremendous story at hand in a broader perspective.
For the second time in three years, St. Louis is going into the playoffs with a completely inexperienced goalkeeper. In the spring of 2019, the gate is guarded by a Canadian Jordan Binnington, who had received an invitation from the farm to the bottom of the league at the beginning of January. The invitation would actually have gone to Husso if he hadn’t been hurt during the Christmas break in 2018.
Binnington wrote history by playing the lights off in the regular season and eventually leading his team to victory in the Stanley Cup.
Binnington, who has since signed a six-year, $ 36 million contract with St. Louis, is sitting on a bench as Husso, who operates under a one-year minimum wage contract, takes back the damage three years ago.
And the farther Husso sails with sheet music in the spring, the more levels Blues ’delicious goalie story gets.
Few saw this story come to fruition.
Also in Carolina, the Finnish goalkeeper was chosen as the best of the match, and this story does not fall into the category of NHL stuff that was already written in advance. Carolina’s goal had to be guarded in the fall Frederik Anderseninno Antti Raannan. However, Raanta performed excellently on the first NHL start of his career against Boston.
Raanta blocked 35 of the 35 shots and eventually led his team to a clear 5-1 victory.
Although the readings were clear in themselves, Raanta had to work hard to win. The Rauma guard made several big battles while the game was still being solved. A few sloppy loose discs came from the lock breeder and one shot was about to slip between the legs, but Boston’s only hit couldn’t be put on Raanna’s account.
Equally, Raanta did what was expected of the goalkeeper in the playoffs: he kept the door shut during important moments of the match.
In any case, the NHL spring is interesting in Finnish, especially for the goalkeepers. At the same time as there has been an occasional debate in Finland about the level of Finnish goalkeeper production today, new surprising names are emerging in the headlines, even in the playoffs.
In the past, we’ve gotten used to seeing the playoffs world Tuukka Raskia and Pekka Rinnettäbut now in the domestic NHL world, new winds are blowing – partly by chance.
The best Finnish watch of the season, Nashville Hair Saros injured and barely playing in the opening round against Colorado. As mentioned earlier, Carolina’s Andersen was also sidelined due to injury. Through these events, completely new Finnish names are introduced on the air.
Husso, 27, is a new rising name and Raanta, 32, a more experienced guard, has gotten into the most delicious situation of his career through injury: playing the playoffs behind a real top team. All of them are both in a challenging but tasty situation at the same time.
Husso is St. Louis ’No. 1 goalkeeper, but Andersen will do his best to return to his job as a starting goalkeeper for Carolina. Until then, Raanna will have time to make the choice of coaching as difficult as possible. If the games go well enough as the number one official, the rima will switch to a cold goal in the middle of the match series, will increase.
And this is not the case for Finns.
The playoffs in Edmonton also started to a minor victory for the goalkeeper game to the extent that Mikko Koskisen it is better to start warming up its members. 40 years old Mike Smith was anything but the best in a home loss against Los Angeles. Smith will probably have one match in time to get the blocks together, or even in this match series the responsibility will pass to the Finn.
Husso, Raanta and Koskinen played in the playoffs – this trio did not come to mind in the autumn.