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Originally Posted by Vulcan
The whole situation with Ortio is weird. He's not good enough to even be the back up in Abbotsford but he's good enough to start in Finland's top league and now be on their national team?
He didn't play that badly when he got a chance with the Heat but he rarely got a chance. I'm wondering about our Heat coach.
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To be fair, he's only played 2 games in Finland, so it's too early to say if he's really a starter yet. But it looks pretty good since his team's goaltending has been poor overall before him.
The national team thing is odd. It's nice that he's even on the minds of the national team's managers, but I can't imagine that they'd actually use him. He did play in the junior team last year of course. Maybe because he's young and hasn't played much this season, they figured he's a guy they can call on short notice to warm the bench.
It's really great that he's been able to jump right in. He can just continue building on that next season and become a proper starter for TPS.