Goalkeepers Juuse Saros and Ville Husso will face in a live NHL match on Saturday. As a junior, Saros and Husso walked a long lion’s path together. Now they are both NHL top scorers.
The Saturday night battle between Nashville and St. Louis will see an interesting battle between the Finnish goalkeepers as the home team Hair Saros taking a measure of a guest’s goal mouth is likely to be sliding About Ville Husso. Not only is it a matter of meeting the two best Finnish guards of the NHL season, it is also a struggle between two guards who know each other very well.
Saros and Husso have traversed the Saturday city line of the country town on a very similar but at the same time very different road.
When we talk about Juuse Saros and Ville Husso, we are talking about two very talented goalkeepers born in 1995, who went through the entire Finnish junior national team tube together from the Pohjola camp. Among other things, the World Championship bronze for under-18s and the World Cup gold won in Sweden in the winter of 2014 were included.
Saros seemed to be a little ahead of Husson in his junior years.
Saros, who received his puck training at HPK, became the best goalkeeper in the under-18 World Championships under the age of 18 in the 2012–2013 season, playing all Finnish matches. A year later, Saros was the number one champion of the under-20 World Cup gold team. Saros also starred in the tournament in Sweden and recorded the best statistics for karkela.
Husso, who has a HIFK background, became Finland’s number one guard a year later in the duo’s last junior races in Montreal and Toronto, but at that time the Young Lions’ road was cut in the semi-finals in the Swedish treatment.
Since then, the duo’s careers have progressed very different routes.
Saros quickly rose to the NHL level
Saros left for North America after the last June Championships and the following Championship league spring. The first NHL match slipped into the account the very next season while Husso was still playing for HIFK. After an excellent Finnish Championship league season in 2015–2016, Husso also headed for North America, but the road to bright lights was significantly longer and more rocky than in Saros.
At the same time as Husso fought in many parts in the ECHL, which is being profiled as a rock league, Saros has already played 21 matches in the NHL in the 2016-2017 season. Pekka Rinteen as a second man. A year later, Husso received his first NHL call, but the first NHL game was not blessed with a belt. However, Husso had hatched an athlete and the NHL dream was really starting to get his hands on it.
For Saros, who was already clearly an NHL-level goalie, the 2017-2018 season was the last time this was seen on the AHL side in Milwaukee – now with just nine matches.
Husson’s career took an interesting turn the following season. The Helsinki goalkeeper was the clear number one goalkeeper for the farm team throughout the autumn, but was injured just as the NHL team, which had been sadly tapped up at the top, was calling the goalkeeper to the NHL from below. Because Husso was injured, the call went To Jordan Binningtonwho gave birth to a horror flight and eventually led the club to victory in the Stanley Cup.
Husso was also in Boston after the decisive final to lift the trophy in the role of a three-time guard. Joss was hard to avoid.
Saros, on the other hand, began playing Pekka Rinnet in Nashville for the first time during the St. Louis championship. Rinne had stated many times that this was not going to give Saros a torch in favor, but the guard from Hämeenlinna should take his place by playing. In the spring of 2019, Saros showed he was ready.
In the 2019–2020 season, Saros played for the first time in the regular season more than Pekka Rinne, 40 matches. Husso, who got to taste the Stanley Cup drug, instead returned to the St. Louis farm team in Chicago, where he played all season. Husso was constantly evolving, but the NHL door remained stuck.
Husso robbed the first goalkeeper
Last season, Husso also finally got the first NHL games of his career on his belt, while Saros is increasingly clear as Nashville’s number one goalkeeper. After the season, Pekka Rinne ended his career and finally handed the torch to his younger Finnish follower.
This season, the duo are finally closer to each other than ever before after the youth national team tube. While Husso, who operates with a minimum wage, plays second-fiddle in St. Louis because of Binnington’s expensive contract, this has simply robbed the place of the Canadian as a starting goalkeeper with his furious stunning grabs.
Husso has been among the best goalkeepers in the entire NHL in recent months, as evidenced by almost all the statistics that measure the game of the grandfather. Although Husso has always been known as a talented goalkeeper, rising to the forefront of the NHL in this way is one of the toughest sensations of the NHL season.
Husso has come a long way to finally rise to the forefront in the NHL as well. There will continue to be enough hunger.
Saros, on the other hand, has been one of the world’s top goalkeepers for a season and a half. The HPK breeder has long been the most important single player on his team, winning numerous games for his team with his incredibly stunning take. Saros has all the lunch to stand as a candidate in the Goalkeeper of the Year competition.
Now, for the second time in the NHL world, Finns who have made an effort to the world through the Pohjola camp will face the world. Husso won the duo’s first NHL battle in January. Husso has closed Saros ‘lead, but there is still enough to go to Saros’ level. More screens are needed.
The battle between two very talented Finnish watchmen is ahead.