Patrik Laine made his Montreal Canadiens debut Tuesday. This February, the ahead might be skating in Montreal representing his dwelling nation on the 4 Nations Face-Off.
Laine was one in every of 17 gamers named to the roster for Team Finland on Wednesday, becoming a member of the primary six who had been chosen in June. The best-on-best match that includes groups consisting of NHL gamers from Finland, Sweden, Canada and the United States might be held from Feb. 12-20, with video games at Bell Centre in Montreal on Feb. 12-15 and at TD Garden in Boston from Feb. 17-20.
Laine, who’s in his first season with Montreal and scored in his debut with them Tuesday after sustaining a lower-body damage within the preseason, will not be the one Canadiens participant on Team Finland; ahead Joel Armia was additionally named to the roster.
Since coming into the League in 2016-17 after being the No. 2 decide by the Winnipeg Jets on the 2016 NHL Draft, Laine is fourth amongst lively Finnish gamers with 205 objectives. The different three, Mikko Rantanen of the Colorado Avalanche (277), Aleksander Barkov of the Florida Panthers (272) and Sebastian Aho of the Carolina Hurricanes (261) had been all named to Team Finland’s roster in June.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Panthers have essentially the most gamers on Team Finland, with 4. Forwards Anton Lundell and Eetu Luostarinen, and defenseman Niko Mikkola, will be part of Barkov.
The Dallas Stars can even be well-represented with three gamers named; ahead Roope Hintz joins defensemen Miro Heiskanen and Esa Lindell, who had been chosen in June.
The solely different NHL groups with a minimum of two gamers on Team Finland are the Colorado Avalanche, with ahead Artturi Lehkonen becoming a member of Rantanen, and the Utah Hockey Club, which had defensemen Olli Maatta and Juuso Valimaki chosen Wednesday.
Aho was named to the workforce in June, however his Hurricanes teammate, ahead Jesperi Kotkaniemi, who helped Finland win gold on the 2018 World Junior Championship, was left off.
Sweden additionally introduced its roster Wednesday afternoon. The United States and Canada will announce theirs at 6:30 p.m. ET (ESPN).
Finland opens the match towards the U.S. on Feb. 13 at Bell Centre (8 p.m. ET, ESPN, SN, TVAS).
