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World Cup of Hockey: Team Finland final roster announced

After success at the Under 18, World Juniors and World Championship, all eyes will be on Finland in their first best-on-best tournament since their breakthrough on the World Hockey scene

Finnish hockey is riding high right now, even if they missed the triple as they lost the final in the World Championships to Canada. The question is how good will they be when all the NHL players are in the tournament. Finlands high is currently in the development with golds in the Under 18 and World Junior Championships. New Coach Lauri Marjamäki, and his staff who includes Jere Lehtinen, Teemu Selänne , Saku Koivu and Jarmo Kekäläinen, has had the difficult decision to decide about if he wants to bring with him the three lion cubs of Puljujärvi-Aho-Laine to the team with the three forward positions that was left open and in the end he did decide:

Added players

Tuukka Rask G Boston Bruins
Pekka Rinne G Nashville Predators
Mikko Koskinen G SKA St.