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From: [email protected] (Petteri Kortelainen)
Subject: Re: Helsinki/Stockholm & NHL expansion?
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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In-reply-to: [email protected]'s message of Thu, 15 Apr 1993 09:56:53 GMT
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Marcus Lindroos INF) writes:
>In [email protected] writes:
>Not too low perhaps, but surely not as high as that of an European NHL
>division. The Finnish team, for example, would contain all players currently
on
>the national team plus a top-class foreigner or two. They would be in an
>entirely different league than TPS or Jokerit, both of whom have perhaps a
>dozen players of international class - if even that. Why settle for a minor
>league when you could have the best?
How many players of international class an average NHL team has. 6-10?
Top players just play more in smaller rinks. Is the quality of European hockey
really poor, then recent years only few north-american (usually good farm
players) players have got place in Finnish league or Elitserien, while most
have been shipped back.
Petteri Kortelainen