Which Finnish players are fan favourites through the KHL?
Lehtera and Komarov are big ones but I guess that's it. Obviously there are some other well-liked Finnish players but I wouldn't call them fan favorites.
Karri Rämö got lots of votes in the KHL All Star Game vote (he almost won it in the East despite stats that are far from league-best), so clearly he must be well-loved in Omsk. I'm sure Janne Niskala and Teemu Laine are very popular in Minsk, and while Pekka Rinne played there, he likewise almost won the KHL All Star voting in the West, despite his very bad, sub-par stats. I'm also sure they're happy with their Finnish legion in Ak Bars.
To sum up, there are so many great Finnish players in the KHL right now, it's high time for a Finnish club to join the KHL.
Dynamo Minsk fans voted (or almost voted) Janne Niskala and Rinne into the All Stars game, but KHL dismissed the voting anyway.
Here is the link to the Russian site: http://www.sports.ru/hockey/145420777.html
Strating line-up for the West was Rinne, Niskala-Chara, Ovechkin-Datsyuk-Kovalchuk.
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I'm sure Janne Niskala and Teemu Laine are very popular in Minsk, and while Pekka Rinne played there, he likewise almost won the KHL All Star voting in the West, despite his very bad, sub-par stats.
Don't forget the old man Jere Karalahti. He's averaging about 24 minutes per game with Niskala and fans love him there. I can bet they love and respect any of those 4 Finns much more than Evander Kane.
Leading the league in goals and points by a mile, playing as well as the best player in the world? Doubt even his 07-08 and 08-09 campaigns compare.
If the lockout continues he will rewrite the KHL record books for goals/points with ease, likely never to be broken again. Imagine he actually hit 100 points.
If the lockout continues he will rewrite the KHL record books for goals/points with ease, likely never to be broken again. Imagine he actually hit 100 points.
13 more games, you think he can score a nearly a 3 PPG pace? Okay.
Apparently you forgot when both of Malkin and Mozyakin were 1.6 PPG then went back down to 1.2.
13 more games, you think he can score a nearly a 3 PPG pace? Okay.
Apparently you forgot when both of Malkin and Mozyakin were 1.6 PPG then went back down to 1.2.
Technically its only 2.84ppg. And over his last 13 games Mozyakin has 29 points which is a 2.23 ppg. But since they chopped off 2 games from the regular season, down from 54 last year(and lets not forget that he's also didn't play in 2 other games this year), yes I agree its pretty much impossible. At 54 games and if Malkin stayed he'd have a slim chance, would of needed 37 in 15, a 2.47ppg rate.
As for the 1.6ppg, that was 8 games into the season (4 for Malkin & 6 for Mozyakin). Obviously ppg statistics are going to be exaggerated in some way due to the small sample size. I don't think anyone would dare suggest that they we're playing as good or even better(Malkin after game 8, his 4th > 1.75ppg now 1.69ppg, Mozyakin after game 8 his 6th > 1.67ppg now 1.70ppg) as they are now simply because their ppg was similar or higher 4 & 6 games into their respective seasons.
Point being they would have to go into a major slump for their ppg to drop back down anywhere near 1.2 and seeing them play right now I just don't see that happening.
13 more games, you think he can score a nearly a 3 PPG pace? Okay.
Apparently you forgot when both of Malkin and Mozyakin were 1.6 PPG then went back down to 1.2.
Im glad you went and counted the games left on the schedule and wasted about 5 minutes so you can come up with some bossy comment. Thanks math mathematician, your not that smart. He will obviously not hit 100, but he will hit 80. And how about this, mathematician; compute his ppg the past 2 games then plug that into your magic formula - ...wait, this can't be right?
Technically its only 2.84ppg. And over his last 13 games Mozyakin has 29 points which is a 2.23 ppg. But since they chopped off 2 games from the regular season, down from 54 last year(and lets not forget that he's also didn't play in 2 other games this year), yes I agree its pretty much impossible. At 54 games and if Malkin stayed he'd have a slim chance, would of needed 37 in 15, a 2.47ppg rate.
As for the 1.6ppg, that was 8 games into the season (4 for Malkin & 6 for Mozyakin). Obviously ppg statistics are going to be exaggerated in some way due to the small sample size. I don't think anyone would dare suggest that they we're playing as good or even better(Malkin after game 8, his 4th > 1.75ppg now 1.69ppg, Mozyakin after game 8 his 6th > 1.67ppg now 1.70ppg) as they are now simply because their ppg was similar or higher 4 & 6 games into their respective seasons.
Point being they would have to go into a major slump for their ppg to drop back down anywhere near 1.2 and seeing them play right now I just don't see that happening.
No no, there was a burst after they were basically 1 PPG players up to like 1.6 PPG, then went down to 1.2-1.3.
Anyways I can say this streak is pretty much over. 9 of their 10 games in January are against playoff teams, including Traktor x2, Dynamo, CSKA, Ak Bars, and Ska. So what I'm saying is, even the 80 point record may not even be in reach.
Im glad you went and counted the games left on the schedule and wasted about 5 minutes so you can come up with some bossy comment. Thanks math mathematician, your not that smart. He will obviously not hit 100, but he will hit 80. And how about this, mathematician; compute his ppg the past 2 games then plug that into your magic formula - ...wait, this can't be right?
Huh? He actually made a valid comment, and assuming he's been following the weekly stats posted here, I'd estimate it took him less than half a minute to subtract 39 from 52, and remember how the PPG pace dropped for Mozyakin. EM71 brought up a valid point about that being earlier in the season, but I can't believe someone is actually made fun of here, because he uses numbers to back up his point of view instead of relying on "a feeling"
No no, there was a burst after they were basically 1 PPG players up to like 1.6 PPG, then went down to 1.2-1.3.
So your talking about the October "burst". Well your numbers are wrong. And the October burst is only relevant to Malkin not Mozyakin.
Malkin started the year off slow, after his 10th game his ppg was 0.90. But that's because he obviously needed some time to adjust his game to the big ice & the KHL style of play. And I don't think 10 games is that long of an adjustment period.
After that he hit a high of 1.65 on Oct 31st in his 17th game(28pts). The lowest he went down after that was 1.31 on Nov 30th in his 26 game(34 pts) and not 1.20. But now that he's 35 games into the season his numbers aren't going to variate that much unless he goes into a prolonged slump. And if you think that will happen I must ask, have you actually seen him play lately? Because he's playing like the best player in the world right now just as he did last year in the NHL.
Mozyakin has actually been quite consistent, which makes sense given his KHL experience. When Malkin was at 1.65 on Oct 30 Mozyakin was only at 1.37(26pts 19gms) and not this 1.60 ppg number that you are throwing out there. And furthermore his rate has not dropped since that day!
I've been keeping track of all their games this season, here's Mozyakin's cumulative totals after each game this season;
So yeah, he was basically a 0.75ppg player, 4 games into his season on Sept 22. Before having a 2 game "burst" that raised him above 1.60 and then he subsequently dropped back down to around 1.20. This all took place in games 6 to 10 or 6 to 14 which was the earlier season numbers and small sample size that I was talking about in my previous post.
Now are you seriously suggesting what he did over that 5 or 9 game span is a reliable analysis of his entire season? Because that was the only 'slump' he's had all year.
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Anyways I can say this streak is pretty much over. 9 of their 10 games in January are against playoff teams, including Traktor x2, Dynamo, CSKA, Ak Bars, and Ska. So what I'm saying is, even the 80 point record may not even be in reach.
Mozyakin has played 10 games so far against the teams they will play this month(Dynamo M twice, SKA, Salavat, Ak Bars, Neftekhimik, Lev, Slovan, CSKA). In those games he has 13 points - a respectable 1.30 ppg. If he manages to do that against those teams he will have 76 points. Then there's 2 vs Traktor and the 3 games in February. It's almost a lock. However, the biggest threat to that is not the remaining scheduled but rather the NHL lockout ending with Malkin, Gonchar and Kulemin leaving the team. That would devastate Magnitogorsk and very likely Mozyakin's production especially on the powerplay.
