Tore it up Sunday vs Team USA http://blackhawks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=679614

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I honestly don't listen much-Reared On The Score Thu Jan 28, 2016 9:38 am

The kid can play, but he's a way off from the NHL. As a European, I think they have until next summer to sign him and start his service clock, at which point he might need some AHL time to adjust to North American ice. Could probably bulk up a little, too.

Teravainen + the 2011 draft class is going to fill up this roster before we know it. Shaw and Saad are already here from that draft and won a Cup! We haven't even seen Clendening, Danault, and McNeill yet. Bowman really made the most of the Capocalypse.

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One of the first pieces of furniture I bought was the Teuvo Terevainen 3 drawer chest from IKEA

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He's Finnish, not Swedish, and the Finns are a Baltic people, not Scandinavian, so there's no connection. Go to the end of the line.

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Then IKEA owes me some money. Fraudulent pricks.

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It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

You're European?

What CH said. The Hawks #1 prospect for sure but still 2-3 years away.

I'd be curious to see if he sticks around two years for this:

I wasn't aware of the KHL expanding into Finland. Pretty interesting move. Geographically speaking the move makes sense but aren't the majority of KHL teams owned by oligarchs? I was under the impression KHL teams hemorrhaged money but had little effect to their oligarch owners overall pocketbook. Could other countries support teams in a league that somehow bleeds more money than the NHL?

I don't see why not. This won't be the last team to join the KHL before all is said and done. Perhaps teams in Slovakia and Switzerland will be bought by petrogangsters, too.

As for Teravainen, like I said, he has to be signed by summer 2014, at which point he'll have to report to the Hawks or Rockford. EDIT: unless he's loaned back to Jokerit, which I suppose is a remote possibility. But why?

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Signed his entry level deal.

I love when I try to speak with authority on stuff and then the exact opposite happens. I'm a schmuck.

Welp, I'll try to see him out in Rockford this winter! I just hope this isn't a Marcus Kruger redux, where he's rushed and never becomes the player he was supposed to be.

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Maybe he will be Selanne?

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Is this a joke? No one is ever going to have the rookie season Selanne had. Shit, no one in any year is going to have Selanne's rookie season again. Stamkos scored 60 in his fourth season and it was a big deal. Selanne scored seventy-six in his first. Jesus Christ.

I'm trying to pore over the new CBA, and it sounds like Teravainen can be loaned back to Jokerit this year without starting his service clock, if I understand the slide risk correctly.

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I didn't say he would have 76. I was hoping that someday he would be as good as him.

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His numbers in Finland have been just okay. .583 scoring pace, but I don't know how that relates in the Finnish league. Of course, he's still 18 for a month, too. But that's all the more reason to move very slowly with him. He's young enough to be shepherded at a deliberate pace, and the Hawks are deep enough to allow him that time. I'm not saying anything above a snail's pace will result in a doomsday scenario of struggling in the NHL, going down to Rockford for work, and getting so disillusioned and depressed with Rockford that he defects*, but let's just take our time, okay?

Selanne was a generational talent. Let's just hope he can play top-six wing in the NHL first.

*We've had this problem with Euros, it seems. Remember that Igor Makarov guy that was supposed to be in the top six? Hated Rockford, went back home. That Russian we got in the Ladd trade flaked out too; good thing we also got the Clendening pick. Maybe the Hawks should move their affiliate to Hoffman Estates so their foreign prospects can be closer to THE CULTURAL MECCA

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Loaned back to Jokerit today.

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He's coming over when his Finnish team wraps up their season. He'll probably get a game or two at the end when it's time to rest everyone else, plus he's playoff-eligible because the team has held his rights for some time.

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Haven't really kept up with this kid much. Is he just going to get a look or he is going to be expected to make an impact in the playoffs?

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He was supposed to get a look, but now it turns out that his cap hit doesn't fit, so I don't know how they're going to do that. He'd have to debut in the playoffs, when the salary cap doesn't count, and I don't see Q or Stan throwing anyone into the fire like that.

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aaaaaaaaaand he's here. Along with Morin.

http://blackhawks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=710487

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Does this mean anything different than the 3 weeks we were told?

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I dont think so. I believe this is more of a juggle to fit Teuvo under the cap.

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Kane can come off the IR on the second to last game of the season.

Really excited to see what Teravainen can do. Everyone is so high on him.

Assigned to Rockford. That's the right move. Give him first-line minutes there, try and push that team into the playoffs. Rising tide lifting all ships here, quite possibly.

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Right. Couldn't agree more. He needs ice time. He's not seasoned enough for the Show especially during what is gonna be a rough playoff run.

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With Pirri gone and Morin and Nordstrom up, he has to be the best player on the team already. Early returns on Stephen Johns are promising as well. Guy's just blowing people up, reportedly.

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Enough to replace Seabrook according to CI.

Oh for fuck's sake, they can't settle for having him replace Rozsibank first?

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Um, I'm a Finn and I take a certain amount of offense to that claim. We're definitely both, but culturally more Scandinavian than Baltic. After the S. Koreans, Finns have the highest median IQ in the world. At the same time, we have the highest suicide rate in the world, aside from Dakotans. Just sayin'

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Sure, culturally, thanks to Sweden setting up shop for so many years, but ethnically and linguistically the Finns are closer to the Estonians than the Danes, Swedes, Norwegians, and Icelanders (whose own language still uses characters from Old Norse and strictly patronymic surnames).

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