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Originally Posted by Haplo
Sweden could not afford to pay Elias Petterssons insurance to come to this years tournament. 15 years ago players like Sundin, Forsberg, Zetterberg, Alfredsson, Lundquist, Sedins would be at every tourney.
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That was also the golden era of Swedish hockey in many other ways. (Although Sundin retired from international hockey 17 years ago, but I get what you mean.)
Finland on the other hand could be living it's golden age in international hockey right now, if best-on-best tournaments were still a thing. 3 out of 4 #1 centers in the NHL conference finals were Finns, that's kind of crazy.
Obviously no one can compete on paper with what Canada could put together, but yeah. Aho, Hintz, Barkov, Rantanen, Heiskanen... That could be a starting point for quite a team. If only.