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Lauri Markkanen Will Miss a Year (Eventually)

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Really good article, but the standout part to me was the fact that Finnish men have to serve a 6 to 12 month stint of military service.

Kind of crazy. Would he just pause his contract? Will he wait until the end of his current contract? Can he do it next year when the Jazz try to tank again?
 
They talked about this during some of the Cavs games this last year. Sounds like the minimum service is just shy of 6 months. Not sure if it can be bifurcated.

Evidently for professional athletes they go to a military sports school to train others and continue their training as well. They talked like he was potentially going to do it earlier this year. It sounds like they may waive the requirement as well, but it was unclear if that would happen. If he gets U.S. dual citizenship he does not have to serve.
 
Would probably make the most sense if he missed time next year, all things considered. Though I have no idea how that is determined.
 
Call Cleveland back and demand another pick.
 
It sounds like from a Finish article from a year ago he applied to the sports military school thing and also applied for deferment. He would have had to be there in April right after this season unless he got his deferment. That deferment might have to be applied for every year until its denied. If not it would be for 6 months starting in April whatever year that happens. Which means he would rejoin the team in November of that year. That doesnt seem like a big deal. He would likely miss training camp, pre-season, and about 10-15 games to start the year.
 
It sounds like from a Finish article from a year ago he applied to the sports military school thing and also applied for deferment. He would have had to be there in April right after this season unless he got his deferment. That deferment might have to be applied for every year until its denied. If not it would be for 6 months starting in April whatever year that happens. Which means he would rejoin the team in November of that year. That doesnt seem like a big deal. He would likely miss training camp, pre-season, and about 10-15 games to start the year.
AND THE ****ING FINALS!
 
Also just read an article that says other NHL Finland guys have split up their time across multiple years. So he can just do 3 months 1 year and 3 the next.
 
A couple things on the conscription in Finland. All men are obliged to do service (females can join voluntarily too), but effectively it is voluntary for men too; you just inform war and weapons are against your philosophy/religion/whatever, and you don't have to do the military service (you would still basically have to do the equivalent time in civilian service, but you don't have to do that either if you really don't want to). However, the cultural weight is something a non-finn might find extremely hard to understand; doing the military service is something every man does with pride, period. Two thirds of finnish males do the service, the one third being those who are physically or mentally un-capable joining the army (the Army doesn't want lunatics, drugster, people who have committed violent crimes, etc, while by law the physically limited also have to be excluded even though the Army might want many of them (just because you can't run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes doesn't mean you are not capable of handling drones, radios, computers etc)), plus the ones who don't want to do the service.

Lauri is from a deeply traditional part of Finland. It would be extremely inconvenient for him to visit friends and relatives if he decided to skip doing the service. The matter would be the elephant in the room in any social situation. If he was to run butt-naked to market and do the helicopter in front of the city hall, people would just shrug and think that was kinda strange, but skipping doing the service would be awkward.
 
A couple things on the conscription in Finland. All men are obliged to do service (females can join voluntarily too), but effectively it is voluntary for men too; you just inform war and weapons are against your philosophy/religion/whatever, and you don't have to do the military service (you would still basically have to do the equivalent time in civilian service, but you don't have to do that either if you really don't want to). However, the cultural weight is something a non-finn might find extremely hard to understand; doing the military service is something every man does with pride, period. Two thirds of finnish males do the service, the one third being those who are physically or mentally un-capable joining the army (the Army doesn't want lunatics, drugster, people who have committed violent crimes, etc, while by law the physically limited also have to be excluded even though the Army might want many of them (just because you can't run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes doesn't mean you are not capable of handling drones, radios, computers etc)), plus the ones who don't want to do the service.

Lauri is from a deeply traditional part of Finland. It would be extremely inconvenient for him to visit friends and relatives if he decided to skip doing the service. The matter would be the elephant in the room in any social situation. If he was to run butt-naked to market and do the helicopter in front of the city hall, people would just shrug and think that was kinda strange, but skipping doing the service would be awkward.
The image of Lauri in front of city hall is now etched into my mind...
 
A couple things on the conscription in Finland. All men are obliged to do service (females can join voluntarily too), but effectively it is voluntary for men too; you just inform war and weapons are against your philosophy/religion/whatever, and you don't have to do the military service (you would still basically have to do the equivalent time in civilian service, but you don't have to do that either if you really don't want to). However, the cultural weight is something a non-finn might find extremely hard to understand; doing the military service is something every man does with pride, period. Two thirds of finnish males do the service, the one third being those who are physically or mentally un-capable joining the army (the Army doesn't want lunatics, drugster, people who have committed violent crimes, etc, while by law the physically limited also have to be excluded even though the Army might want many of them (just because you can't run 1.5 miles in 12 minutes doesn't mean you are not capable of handling drones, radios, computers etc)), plus the ones who don't want to do the service.

Lauri is from a deeply traditional part of Finland. It would be extremely inconvenient for him to visit friends and relatives if he decided to skip doing the service. The matter would be the elephant in the room in any social situation. If he was to run butt-naked to market and do the helicopter in front of the city hall, people would just shrug and think that was kinda strange, but skipping doing the service would be awkward.
Terrific insight. Thank you.
 
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