NHL | The website listed the most bitter booking decisions – a lot of mentions for Finns

American sports website The Athletic has listed on its website, the clubs’ most questionable NHL bookings, from the point of view of what else would have been available. Finns have received mentions in both directions.

When listing the bookings, Athletic followed the principle that a booked player could only be replaced immediately with a booked player on the next shift. In this way, we avoided having to deal with players who flowed through the sieve of all teams to the lower rounds. Instead, the focus was on players who were presumably options at that stage of the booking event.

Athletic’s story reminds us of the ease of hindsight when it comes to evaluating the future of teenage players.

Between in terms of reservations, the first Finnish mention on the list can be found in Chicago in 2012 Teuvo Teräväinen. However, not so much because Teräväinen, who was booked at number 18, had a disappointing career. In the next round, however, the Tampa Bay Lightning’s top scorer was taken Andrei Vasilevskiy.

There is something to be excited about for the Dallas Stars Julius Hongan from the reservation in 2014. In the next shift, the forward who already broke 500 power points in his NHL career moved Dylan Larkin.

Picked by the Edmonton Oilers Toni Rajalan quite late in the round at number 101 in 2009. Rajala never played in the NHL unlike the next defender booked Mattias Ekholm, who has 13 seasons of games under his belt. To top it all off, Ekholm currently plays in Edmonton.

For Montreal, Athletic finds reminders of the Finnish spirit in recent history. In 2018, the Canadiens chose Jesperi Kotkaniemi as the third player. Kotkaniemi has since continued his journey to the Carolina Hurricanes. The next to choose was the Ottawa Senators, who took Brady Tkachuk.

As for Vanocuver, the knife can be turned in the wound for both father and son. The Canucks have given up on both Keith that Matthew Tkachuk, who have gone elsewhere in the next turn. Before Matthew, Vancouver chose a Finnish defender Olli Juolevin. Before Keith, the club took on someone who had played an NHL career of just under a couple of hundred games Shawn Antoski.

of Florida on the other hand, according to Athletic’s assessment, the Finn would have been worth choosing. However, the club left Tuukka Raskin next for booked Toronto. Florida itself caught the attacker Kenndall McArdlewhose NHL career lasted 42 games.

Philadelphia, on the other hand, can boast that in 2017 the selection was Nolan Patrickwhen it would also have been available Miro Heiskanen. Sebastian Aho on the other hand, two years earlier, he was not taken by Toronto, who ended up playing defensive back in Arizona To Travis Dermott.

This one the year’s booking ceremony will be held a week after Midsummer in Las Vegas.