@jerry wrote: Whats goin on with Finland? All NHL players gave the fook off to the finnish federation? Seem strange that one came. @jerry It was a snowball effect that I believe started with Alexander Barkov ( FLA Panthers ) refusing to come for whatever reason. He would have been the team leader and the captain. After he refused, some other good names followed, and at the end no one wanted to join the team anymore. Also some of our young guns went deeper on the playoffs than expected, it's been a long and heavy season for them. However, I personally think that the NHL stars don't like the overly controlled way of playing that they're expected to play on team Finland, but I don't follow our national team that closely ( other than watching the world champs ), so I might be way off with that. Russia looks crazy strong on the paper ( Malkin on 4th line at Czech EHT ), but they've often failed with their dream teams. Sweden and USA also very good as you said. Canada and Czech will also probably do good. So nothing really has changed, other than we'll most likely be out of the race this time. GL!
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