From: pkortela@snakemail.hut.fi (Petteri Kortelainen) Subject: Re: Helsinki/Stockholm & NHL expansion? Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland Lines: 20 Distribution: inet <1993Apr15.095653.17514@abo.fi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lk-hp-17.hut.fi In-reply-to: MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI's message of Thu, 15 Apr 1993 09:56:53 GMT In article <1993Apr15.095653.17514@abo.fi> MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI (Marcus Lindroos INF) writes: >In franti@polaris.utu.fi 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