Joined: Sep. 2022
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Finland is only #1 in the IIHF rankings because of the Olympics, where Canada and the USA iced shambolic teams partially due to harsh COVID restrictions. If you want to ice best-on-best, which you've done here for some reason (since you're talking about international rankings), then Finland would maybe be 4th. I mean, you have Maata and Ristolainen as your second pair defence and are relying on "breakouts" from your forwards... nobody on team Canada or USA needs to "breakout" to be on their roster lol, they're already stacked