Finnish Wing

Frolov-Datsyuk-Cleary Zetterberg-Filppula-Franzen Abdelkader-Helm-Eaves Miller-McGrath-Boogaard Kronwall-Doughty Kindl-Ericsson X-Pyett McCollum Howard Dunno who that X is though.

I agree. Abdelkader-Helm-Eaves could be the second coming of The Grind Line, although slightly different version of it. That line should be our 3rd line next season.

fact-based questions: 1. What is the most common number among all players? 2. What is the least common number among all players? 3. What is the most common number among goalies? 4. What is the least common number among goalies? 5. What is the most common number among defensemen? 6. What is the least common number among defensemen? 7. What is the most common number among forwards? 8. What is the least common number among forwards? 9. What is the biggest number among all players? 10. What is the smallest number among all players? 11. What is the biggest number among goalies? 12. What is the smallest number among goalies? 13. What is the biggest number among defensemen? 14. What is the smallest number among defensemen? 15. What is the biggest number among forwards? 16. What is the smallest number among forwards? opinion-based questions: 17. What is your favourite number? 18. What is your least favourite number? 19. What number suits every player? 20. What number doesn't suit any player? 21. What number suits goalies best? 22. What number doesn't suit goalies? 23. What number suits defensemen best? 24. What number doesn't suit defensemen? 25. What number suits forwards best? 26. What number doesn't suit forwards? 27. Which player has a number that suits him the best? 28. Which palyer has a number that doesn't suit him at all? ps. I don't have the correct answers for the fact-based questions, but maybe we can find out them later. The point is just to see what everyone think is the correct answer. pps. Please. If you have a perfect question to add here just tell me.

Offensive player playing in the 4th line is not much of a chance. Just let May play if this is the case.

May.

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Klesla is a defenseman. Also, I should add the exception that 0's and 99's are not even available, so they shouldn't count.

Nice to see you contributing for my thread man!

Depends on how you're building your team. If you want to have two clear scoring lines and two clear checking lines, I'd rather pick one good guy than two medium. Maybe Cleary's role should be more defensive in the future?

Just imagine twenty Canucks fans pointing a giant laser to Kipper.

KUKKONEN!

Rask would be easily the winner if Boston had given him the amount of games he has deserved. They just don't want to go to the playoffs with him, so they keep playing Thomas, even if he's not playing that well.

I don't think one good game is enough to change anything. Leino has had several good games last season and at the beginning of this season.

You don't have to get rid of Miller if you do like you said with the others. We need to waive/trade/send down three guys. Abdelkader can be sent down. Then Janik and May as you said. That's enough. Although I may not agree losing Janik.

It's a deal then! xD

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Wish I could too. I promise that I'll make a trip to USA and go to Red Wings game at least once in this lifetime.

By success in international tournaments. Canada Russia Sweden Finland Czech Republic USA Slovakia Switzerland That's how it's gonna be this year too.

I really don't know about Finland's 2nd team. Probably wouldn't be very good as our material isn't broad enough. Todd McLellan is a coach similiar to Babcock and a coach understands the modern playing style. Probably wouldn't be him, but that's my choice. Well, there can be numerous of factors in team's bad performances. If you mean Red Wings now, I definitely think it's not Babcock's fault.

What the heck? What are you trying to prove here. Of course Canada's 2nd team is better than Finland's 2nd team and probably better than any other country's 2nd team. There are almost seven times more people living in Canada than in Finland. It's pretty obvious that they've also got more good players.

@Rivalred: - This thread about Canada's second team beating the other countries' (such as Finland's) first teams, so no way Leino should be even mentioned - I think Canada would still have good coaching even without Babcock, but Babcock, Jalonen, Bykov and Gustafsson are probably the top4 in the game (in not any specific order). - Of course team's performance relies a lot in the coach and the coach's playing style especially in short tournaments. Finland's has never had a top team, but top coaching has been a big reason for good results. - Even with good coaching, we've seen a number of times that there are numerous contributors in the international level, so anything can happen

Are you really that stupid? God. READ THE EARLIER POSTS. If it's Canada's second team, it also has other coaches than the first team has. Mike Babcock is a top4 coach in that tournament, but he is busy with the first team...

We weren't speaking about Finland's second team here. And why can't your level of play decrease slightly? Could you just give it up already?

Why are you throwing Backstrom there as Kiprusoff is clearly the starter and has better stats? Besides scoring in the NHL is different than scoring in the international games. If you think that team's unbeatable, you clearly haven't a lot of international games. And you can't analyze teams based only on it's players as coaching is a huge part of the game.

You've got some problem with me? You clearly misunderstood my quote. The "slightly" was a comment about Finland's level of players declining. This has nothing to do with Leino. Leino isn't a typical Finnish player. You've got some issues.