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Originally Posted by Lugaid
...but if you look at the entire leagues, I think SEL has to have the edge, which is pretty understandable given the cirumstances of salary etc.
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Aaaand of course the fact that the SM-Liiga has 14 teams while there are only 12 teams in the Elitserien. Drop two of the bottom teams from SM-Liiga (SaiPa & Pelicans/TPS) and the cap would be much smaller between the top teams and bottom teams.
The player movement between SM-Liiga and Elitserien seems to have changed direction. Too lazy to check it but I think in the couple of past years ther have been more guys moving to SM-liiga from Elitserien than the other way..?
This pre-season transactions between the two leagues (from the top of my head)
SM-Liiga -> Elitserien
Ville Viitaluoma
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Elitserien -> SM-Liiga
Eero Somervuori
Mikko Jokela
Kim Hirsovits
Ville Koistinen
Vesa Toskala
John Klingberg
William Wallen
Riku Hahl
Timo Seppänen
Arto Laatikainen
Riku Helenius
Oscar Eklund
Ville Mäntymaa
Pekka Saarenheimo
Kris Beech
Ryan Lasch
Viktor Ekbom
Markus Seikola
Well well well, wouldn't you take a look at that. I might have forgotten a couple of names but not more than that..