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The Lions’ players for the first-ever international tournament have now been selected. The Swedish team was also announced.

The Finnish men’s national ice hockey team for the upcoming NHL four-nation tournament has been announced. Finland and Sweden simultaneously announced their teams for the NHL tournament to be played in Boston and Montreal in February.

The head coach Antti Pennanen six players had already been named to pilot Leijon before Wednesday: Juuse Saros, Miro Heiskanen, Esa Lindell, Mikko Rantanen, Sebastian Aho and Alexander Barkov.

Just returned to the NHL arena Patrick Laine was named to the team on Wednesday night.

The entire teams for the United States and Canada will be announced on Thursday at around 1:30 a.m. Finnish time.

The Finnish team is explained in more detail in Areena in the new episode of the Ikan änäri podcast, which will be published on Thursday morning at 06:00.

There was a surprise in the selections of the defenders, when Henri Jokiharjun instead, the team is involved Juuso Välimäki. For example, the attackers could not be included Jesperi Kotkaniemi, Jesse Puljujärvi and Matias Maccelli.

– Overall, we have a lot of different skills, good goalkeepers and the attacking department is certainly our biggest strength. It’s true that we don’t have many NHL defensemen, but I feel that we have a strong defense that is used to playing against top forwards. The defense is big, they are good at fighting and defending, the head coach of the A national team Antti Pennanen commented in the announcement.

Only a few Finnish players in the team have been able to play in an international tournament in one national team shirt in recent years. The NHL has not participated in the Olympics since the 2014 Sochi Winter Games, and the World Cup itself has not been played since autumn 2016.

– This is a huge thing for the players, that they get to represent Finland and play against the best players from other countries. I know everyone is ready to give it their all for the team, General Manager Jere Lehtinen describes.

The NHL also announced that in addition to organizing the four-nation tournament, the players of the series will participate in the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics in the spring of 2026.

Here is the Swedish team

Swedish newspaper Expressen published earlier on Wednesday, based on his own information, the Swedish team for the four-nation tournament. Sweden’s announcement event confirmed the team later.

Goalkeepers:

Filip Gustavsson, Minnesota Wild
Jacob Markstrom, New Jersey Devils
Linus Ullmark, Ottawa Senators

Defenders:

Rasmus Dahlin, Buffalo Sabres
Rasmus Andersson, Calgary Flames
Mattias Ekholm, Edmonton Oilers
Victor Hedman, Tampa Bay Lightning
Gustav Forsling, Florida Panthers
Erik Karlsson, Pittsburgh Penguins
Jonas Brodin, Minnesota Wild

Attackers:

Adrian Kempe, Los Angeles Kings
William Karlsson, Vegas Golden Knights
Joel Eriksson Ek, Minnesota Wild
Gustav Nyquist, Nashville Predators
Elias Pettersson, Vancouver Canucks
Lucas Raymond, Detroit Red Wings
Mika Zibanejad, New York Rangers
Leo Carlsson, Anaheim Ducks
Elias Lindholm, Boston Bruins
Viktor Arvidsson, Edmonton Oilers
Filip Forsberg, Nashville Predators
Jesper Bratt, New Jersey Devils
William Nylander, Toronto Maple Leafs

The news is updated.

Corrected at 21:11: Changed Henri Jokiharju’s name to Rasmus Ristolainen.