re helsinki stockholm nhl expansion in article apr abo fi mlindroos finabo abo fi marcus lindroos inf writes in c h wr j polaris utu fi 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 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
