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Originally Posted by icarus
Daniel Leggio is an American goalie I have never heard of; surely Ortio must be better than he is?
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Leggio has been solid, nothing spectacular but it looks like he can handle starter's job. Just to remind you that Ortio is 18 years old, there's no need to rush him, not in Flames nor TPS point of view. Pre-season games can lie and Leggio looking to be solid doesn't mean he's going to be that in "real" games. Leggio was signed to be starter and if he doesn't pan out I'm pretty sure TPS will try to sign new goalie. No way they would go to war with goalie tandem with combined age of 39. Ortio's chance to take spot from squad is to outplay other youngster Engren (21) which is also doubtful.
Edit. Looks like Engren has developed nicely during summer and might be number one choice for TPS.
To return to talk about tournament, I get to see all three Finland's games. Ortio and Kuusela will split first two games and better one will get extra game which also shows who's going to be frontrunner for starter's position in WJC.