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rfroese wrote:Anyone have any thoughts on Robin Rahm's admitted steriod abuse and his subsequent 2 year suspension? Do you think Farjestad will be able to lure Vesa Toskala back or will they go with Fredrick Holmqvist?
Nihlstorp was signed from Rögle, they will probably go with him. Too bad they lost Jonas Gustafsson.
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Any Norwegians here now anything about Kyle sibley? Spent the last couple of years at manglerud (sic?)
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Jiri Slegr (VAN, PIT, DET, Litvínov), Robert Reichel (CGY, TOR, Litvínov), Roman Turek (DAL, České Budějovice) and Milan Hnilicka (ATL, Sparta Praha, Liberec) all retired in past days.
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Alexander Salak signs a deal with Farjestad. He will be their #1 goaltender next season.
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Today's exhibition matchup Jyp - Ak Bars Kazan will be exciting. Jarkko Immonen makes comeback (in wrong jersey) to Jyväskylä. Ak Bars is toughest team ever played exhibition games in Finland, especially in Jyväskylä.

Ak Bars Kazan A-juniors played/will play against Jyp A-juniors. I don't know when the game will be or was it in last week. Anyway, my former schoolmate plays in Jyp A-juniors.
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Jyp won Ak Bars 2-1 at shootout competition. :thup:

Third team in Hurrikaani Cup is Swedish AIK from Stockholm.
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Jypfan92 wrote:Jyp won Ak Bars 2-1 at shootout competition. :thup:

Third team in Hurrikaani Cup is Swedish AIK from Stockholm.
Did Ak Bars have the best line-up they could have had? If so JYP is serious contender to win the SM-Liiga this year. :-k
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Yes, only Alexei Morozov didn't play cause of back pain, but Danis Zarapov, Sergei Zinoviev, Marcel Hossa, Janne Pesonen, Jarkko Immonen, Niko Kapanen and Petri Vehanen played.

Immonen scored for Kazan and Antti Pihlström scored for Jyp.

Shootouts:

Kazan:
Kapanen -
Immonen +
Pesonen -
Hossa -

Jyp:
Jonne Virtanen +
Ossi Louhivaara -
Pihlström -
Jani Tuppurainen +
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Jypfan92 wrote:
Ak Bars Kazan A-juniors played/will play against Jyp A-juniors. I don't know when the game will be or was it in last week. Anyway, my former schoolmate plays in Jyp A-juniors.
Do you know something more about this?
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No, i just heard this from friend of mine. I don't remember did he said Magnitogorsk or Kazan A-juniors. Only thing i know is that Magnitogorsk A-juniors has played against Jokerit A-juniors about week or two ago. So maybe that game is/was against Magnitogorsk A-juniors.
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Jypfan92 wrote:Ak Bars is toughest team ever played exhibition games in Finland, especially in Jyväskylä.
If I remember correctly Chicago Blackhawks played exhibition games in Finland, and them with that Stanley Cup winning group they had last season would mean they have been the strongest team to play against a finnish team. Sorry for nitpicking though :dunno:
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It wasn't exactly exhibition game, it was more show, if you know what i mean. They played during Sm-league season, so it's not exhibition game for Finnish team. ;)

Kazan played at good level and their season starts next week. Sm-league starts at 16th September.
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Jypfan92 wrote:Yes, only Alexei Morozov didn't play cause of back pain, but Danis Zarapov, Sergei Zinoviev, Marcel Hossa, Janne Pesonen, Jarkko Immonen, Niko Kapanen and Petri Vehanen played.

Immonen scored for Kazan and Antti Pihlström scored for Jyp.

Shootouts:

Kazan:
Kapanen -
Immonen +
Pesonen -
Hossa -

Jyp:
Jonne Virtanen +
Ossi Louhivaara -
Pihlström -
Jani Tuppurainen +
Oh, and Jyp's starting goalie was Joni Myllykoski: Jyp's backup goalie, who played last season in Denmark. ;)
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Pelicans signed former NHL-2nd-liner Mike York :-o .
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Can anyone explain what it will take to get Hammarby IF/Bajen Fans from D3 up to D2? Is there a one year waiting period before they can be promoted? I can't wait for the day when Hammarby and AIK are back in Allsvenskan together where they belong. Just a step below Djurgarden
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rfroese wrote:Can anyone explain what it will take to get Hammarby IF/Bajen Fans from D3 up to D2? Is there a one year waiting period before they can be promoted? I can't wait for the day when Hammarby and AIK are back in Allsvenskan together where they belong. Just a step below Djurgarden
Good question. They totally destroyed D3's Stockholm Södra group last season with a perfect season and yet it looks like they didn't even take part in the Stockholm area's Kvalserien til D1. Truly incomprehensible. Are there financial requirements to be met even at those lowly levels that Bajen Fans did not meet??? They've revived their junior club and seem to have the capacity to attract players one good step above D3 level, so they shouldn't have problems with that...

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Tom Preissing goes to Kärpät. :doh:
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Avangard Omsk signs Marek Svatos.
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Blues' Jani Lajunen (on loan from Nashville) scored umbelievable goal on yesterday against Kärpät. It was also game-winning-goal in the overtime.

Lajunen's goal at 2.12 (first few ads, then goals of the game)
http://www.iltalehti.fi/nettitv/?26964893 =D> :-p
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Same kind of a goal that Rob Hisey did few times in SM-Liiga, once against Blues though ](*,)
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Was it 2006 when Hisey scored?
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Jypfan92 wrote:Was it 2006 when Hisey scored?
Yes, season 05-06
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Hisey's goal was just one goal when Ässät crashed Blues.
Lajunen's goal was game-winning-goal at overtime. :thup:

Anyway, both goals are nice to watch.
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Here is a better link to Lajunen's goal.
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foxlockbox wrote:Here is a better link to Lajunen's goal.
Eh... Where?
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