Doric SamDecember 4, 2024
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The complete lineups for Finland and Sweden in the 2025 4 Nations Face-Off are formally set, and the NHL revealed the lineups for fans on Wednesday.
The Finland group is headlined by the similarity Sebastian Aho, Kaapo Kakko and Patrik Laine:
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The Swedish group includes stars like Filip Forsberg, Mika Zibanejad and Erik Karlsson, to name a few:
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Forsberg, Karlsson and Victor Hedman were members of the Swedish group that put 3rd in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey in Toronto, which was the last time the NHL held a best-on-best worldwide competition including its gamers.
NHL gamers likewise didn’t contend in the Winter Olympics in both 2018 and 2022, so the go back to global play will be a breath of fresh air for the majority of them.
The complete lineups for the USA and Canada groups will be exposed later Wednesday night. There’s currently a load of self-confidence on the USA side.
“As far as the kind of group that you’ll see, it’ll be extremely gifted,” USA coach Mike Sullivan informed NHL.com on Tuesday. “It will be a skilled group that I believe can complete versus any group in any environment. There’s speed. There’s ability. There’s size. There’s abrasiveness. There’s protective conscience. There’s dynamically offending gamers. As I’ve stated all along, every group is going to have skill. Skill alone isn’t going to win the competition, we do not believe, therefore I believe our difficulty is to end up being a group.”
The 2025 4 Nations Face-Off will be held from Feb. 12-20 at Bell Centre in Montreal and at TD Garden in Boston. Sweden will open the competition versus Canada on Feb. 12, while Finland will handle the USA the following day. Both opening video games will be dipped into Bell Centre.
