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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
They used to anyways. Only 6 Finnish goaltenders played more than 1 game in the NHL this season. Only 1 (Rask) will be under 30 when the calendar year expires.
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"Only" 6 Finnish goalies, but they're all starters: Rask, Rinne, Niemi, Lehtonen, Bäckström, Kiprusoff. That's wildly disproportionate for a small country so I wouldn't expect it to continue given that there are only 30 spots in the league, but that doesn't mean that the coaching that produced those players no longer produces the same talent.