[News] Flames loan Valimaki to Tampereen Ilves (Liiga)

[Unknown]

https://streamable.com/1r0re3

That second point of the night was a great heads up play. And again, against their local rival Tappara, Juus is loose.

[---Hatrick---]

Originally Posted by Wastedyouth

Anywhere to watch?

I was looking, and I couldn’t find a stream.
Perhaps some one else could help us out with that?

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Unknown

https://streamable.com/1r0re3

That second point of the night was a great heads up play. And again, against their local rival Tappara, Juus is loose.

2 things immediately evident to me:

1. Juuso uses his slapshot way more effectively than anyone currently on our roster.
2. The FEL has already noticed this, look how much room they were giving him while trying to block the shot coming. Juuso also saw this, and the second point he capitalized on this by subtly faking the shot and going for a side of net pass/deflection

Both of these are NHL level scoring plays.

[djsFlames]

I call them the Tampering Elves.

[Unknown]

I was able to see the last two periods. Not too shiny from Juuso, and he actually was -2. But he's calm and confident, and his base level is good enough in FEL. Got a penalty too, which was a bit weird call.

[sureLoss]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1327652171224117248

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

https://twitter.com/user/status/1327652171224117248

Who does he think he is? Sidney Crosby?

Sent from my SM-G960W using Tapatalk

[Gaskal]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

I call them the Tampering Elves.

Sounds like the opposite of house elves. Instead of cleaning and cooking, they crawl out of the cupboard at night to eat your food, smoke your weed and put a whole bunch of garbage shows on your Netflix history.

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by sureLoss

https://twitter.com/user/status/1327652171224117248

Incredible play.
He made two sublime passes and two excellent dekes, not only creating the opportunity with slick mid ice play but entering the zone himself, faking the shot and creating the actual scoring chance as well. This clip starts after his amazing defensive play, pass, and center ice moves.

Here is the longer clip:
https://twitter.com/Del_Pieru/status...611123720?s=20

[Red_Baron]

I'm just afraid Valimaki is not going to roll off the tongue of any North American PBP guy/gal with the same panache as the Finnish PBP guys.

[EVERLAST]

Originally Posted by Red_Baron

I'm just afraid Valimaki is not going to roll off the tongue of any North American PBP guy/gal with the same panache as the Finnish PBP guys.

Just call him Juice

[DJones]

Originally Posted by cam_wmh

His NHL equivalency (NHLe), with his 11pts in 11 SM-Liga gp, is 37pts over an 82 game NHL season.

wasn't Karlsson at like 1.1 ppg?

Is NHLe just a straight line correlation?

[Monahammer]

Originally Posted by Gaskal

Sounds like the opposite of house elves. Instead of cleaning and cooking, they crawl out of the cupboard at night to eat your food, smoke your weed and put a whole bunch of garbage shows on your Netflix history.

TIL i am a tampering elf in my own house.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by DJones

wasn't Karlsson at like 1.1 ppg?

Is NHLe just a straight line correlation?

I’m coming around to the idea that NHLe is borderline useless.

[ricardodw]

Any idea what Valimaki is getting paid to play in Finland? Are the Flames paying his full salary? He would be getting paid 70K to play in the AHL.


according to this site the salary range of the FINLAND LIIGA is 30,000 – 125,000 Euro Tax Free


If the NHL season is cancelled would Valimaki burn off his last year of ELC by playing in Finland?

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

Any idea what Valimaki is getting paid to play in Finland? Are the Flames paying his full salary? He would be getting paid 70K to play in the AHL.


according to this site the salary range of the FINLAND LIIGA is 30,000 – 125,000 Euro Tax Free


If the NHL season is cancelled would Valimaki burn off his last year of ELC by playing in Finland?

That's a good question, and as I read CBA info provided by CapFriendly players who signed @ 18 yrs are eligible to have their ELCs slide for two years. However, because Valimaki was born in October this condition does not apply. So, yes, I think he would be a RFA after this year if he spends the season in Finland. Having said that, because he is a 10.2c RFA, he is ineligible for arbitration and exempt from offer sheets. Without the benefit of a NHL season played this year, Valimaki's extension would most likely be very affordable.

[Itse]

Originally Posted by ricardodw

according to this site the salary range of the FINLAND LIIGA is 30,000 – 125,000 Euro Tax Free

That's not quite accurate.

It's not tax free, although the amount of tax you pay depends on a lot of things.

The top salaries last season were above 200k based on public tax records, , and since the public tax records only show the part you pay taxes on, the actual top salaries were above 300k.

(An athlete can put up to €100k per year (or up to 50% of their salary, which ever is less) into a personal fund and skip paying taxes for that money until the year they draw it out. The top paid players are probably putting max amounts into their funds, which is why their actual salaries are that €100k more than what you can see in the papers.)

Average Liiga salary is around €75k and median salary is about €55k. They've been the same for a few years now.

[Unknown]

Välimäki just scored his third of the season. Nice wrist shot from the point off the post and in.

E:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1329843008355831810

[timbit]

Originally Posted by Unknown

Välimäki just scored his third of the season. Nice wrist shot from the point off the post and in.

E:

https://twitter.com/user/status/1329843008355831810

Pretty remarkable.

Valimaki leads all Liiga D in scoring and plus/minus and 5th most minutes played per game.

[SuperMatt18]

I'm just happy to see a d-man that can shoot that nice low hard along the ice shot that's great for tips.

Feel like our d-men were always looking for top corners and tougher to tip those.