n winners in the transfer market – Finnish striker playing the puck of his life reached the championship favorite

The waiting time is long. In Canada, the return of the largest trophy in the hockey universe to the homeland of the sport has been awaited for 29 years. Montreal Canadiens is the previous team to bring a pitcher to Canada – Wayne Gretzkyn and Jari Kurrin represented by Los Angeles crashed in the final series in the summer of 1993.

There have been several visits since then. 1994 Vancouver only bowed to the New York Rangers in the seventh game, as they bowed to Boston in the summer of 2011. Miikka Kiprusoff, Toni Lydman and Ville Nieminen represented Calgary lost to the Stanley Cup final standings for Tampa in the summer of 2004.

Now the maple leaf may be a hard currency again, and this time too, the gaze turns to Calgary.

The NHL transfer deadline expired in Finnish time on Monday night, and Calgary was one of the winners in the transfer market. Flames had previously acquired from Montreal Tyler Toffolinwhich has already proved to be a great addition to the team.

In addition to this, the Flames strengthened the base parts of their attack equipment Calle Järnkrokin and Ryan Carpenterin with well-experienced multiplayer players like. Järnkrok played in the Stanley Cup Finals in the summer of 2016 with Nashville and Carpenter in the summer of 2018 in Vegas. With these additions, Calgary has all the lunch for a long spring.

Calgary has an identity like being made in the playoffs. An extremely committed and cohesive group approaches the game through defense, but at the same time it has a lot of offensive power in its team. First cannon Johnny Gaudreau playing the hockey of his life. Especially in its offensive equipment, Calgary has tremendous depth through recent moves.

The defenders on this team are more traditionally defenders, no Cale Makarin such as midfielders. In addition to this, Flames has by far the best goalkeeper from the Western Conference playoffs, the Swedish Jacob Markström.

Many consider Colorado to be – for good reason – the West’s biggest favorite, but if Calgary and Colorado hit each other’s way in the final stages of the conference, the rodeo city crew should be taken very seriously, as the head coach Darryl Sutterilla already has a couple of rings in his pocket.

Another club that did an excellent job at the shops was Minnesota.

That’s what Wild-GM is Bill Guerin under the closing of the transfer window did, was largely based on last spring. The club wanted to bring in a player to help with coughing underpower play. For this purpose, the club acquired a basic defender from San Jose Jacob Middletonin.

The hardest movement was still seen in the goalkeeper department. Guerin probably had a fresh memory of how Minnesota had lost last week in a series of matches against Vegas with a win of 1 to 3 in Vegas alone. Marc-Andre Fleuryn thanks to the eye-free goalie game. The Canadian goalkeeper had conceded four hits in the first four matches and his GSAA score fluttered at ten. The GSAA measures the number of goals saved by the goalkeeper relative to the league average. Now Fleury represents Minnesota Wild.

Minnesota has also not forgotten how Vegas finally rolled over it with hardness. With this in mind, Anaheim was acquired Nicolas Deslauries. While the move doesn’t sway the hand big or collect big headlines, getting hardness was a good solution from Guerin. Captured from Colorado Tyson Jost replace lost Victor Raskin very.

The areas to which Minnesota wanted confirmation, to which it got it. Good job.

The NHL’s official Finnish team in Florida must also be promoted to success.

In terms of volume, the Panthers did not horse the market excessively, but made the necessary and expected additions to their roster. A 1,000-match striker was abducted from Philadelphia Claude Giroux that Alexander Barkovin through the chain of superiority through tremendous added value in know-how and experience. Still, I like the base bone Ben Chiarotin even more important.

Florida was even considered by many to be a little overpriced for Chiarot, but it doesn’t matter in the end. The Stanley Cup window is now open, so the signs need to be ready to move. There were takers for Chiarot elsewhere as well, and it was this kind of stout base defender Panthers ’undeniably light defense equipment desperately needed. In the playoffs, hardness is still worth it.

At this point, the one acquired from Finland also enters the picture Petteri Lindbohm. Just by nicely rocking, Florida won’t win the Stanley Cup. Especially in your own area you need muscle, hardness and the desire to produce even a little pain. In the relentlessly hard Eastern Conference, this is emphasized. Therefore, capturing Chiarot was an important and successful movement.

Unbelievable but true: GM Bill Zito has made the Florida Panthers a Stanley Cup candidate in less than two years.

And let’s not forget Colorado, which made the hardest player deal in Finland by grabbing the goal of many clubs. Artturi Lehkonen Montrealista. Lehkonen, who is electric-loving, hard-working and reliable, fits Colorado’s way of playing like a nose to the head, and a Turku resident will definitely bring significant added value to the group.

The move to Colorado is tasty, especially since Lehkonen has played the hockey side of his life in Canada this season.

Formerly GM Joe Sakic grabbed Anaheim’s hard-fought basic defender Josh Mansonin, which brings the much – needed meat to the downstairs of the avalanche. Colorado would have been strong without these moves, but now it’s even harder to beat. The club didn’t bother the market much in terms of volume, but took in two players significant for their own needs.

If it were to be said who were disappointed on Monday, two points must be made: Toronto and Edmonton.

Toronto acquired earlier Harri Säterin From Finland, but had to use this transfer list. And no matter what, Arizona grabbed Säter from the list. The situation was a nightmare for Leafs, as a team that suffered from a blind goalkeeper game through the heart of winter will have to play in the playoffs without a quality goalkeeper, and on that basis, success is virtually impossible.

Leafs strengthened his team with a high-quality veteran defender Mark Giordano and a depth striker Colin Blackwellbut the batting of the goalkeeper bomb is a massive failure from the club leadership.

It didn’t go strong either in Edmonton, which is still too dependent on a couple of its top chains. At a time when rivals around Colorado, Calgary and Minnesota were strengthening their forces, the Oilers had to settle for a 31-year-old depth center To Derrick Brassard.