Former Manly NRL premiership-winning captain Matt Orford is in a serious condition in hospital after collapsing on a bathroom floor with a seizure.The 38-year-old was admitted to?Mater Hospital, North Sydney, last week for routine hip surgery but?remained there following complications.Orford, nicknamed The Ox, collapsed early Sunday morning and was rushed to Royal North Shore hospital where doctors performed emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. He remains in hospital with his family at his bedside.Matt is in good hands with the medical staff at Royal North Shore, Orfords father Allan said.Naturally, his mother and his family are devastated with what has happened.We like to thank the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles Club and the rugby league community who have offered their love and support during this difficult time.Orford captained the Sea Eagles in the 40-0 win over Melbourne Storm in the 2008 Grand Final, and remains one of the Clubs favourite sons. 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But only five of them played in the league before 1999.So why has Finland -- with a population of 5.5 million, one-sixth that of Canada -- been producing so many world-class goalies in recent years? One of the reasons for Finlands steady production of high-quality goalies -- there are seven Finnish goalies in Russias KHL, too -- is their tradition tracing back to the 1960s and 70s.Urpo Ylonen, Jorma Valtonen, Hannu Kamppuri, Kari Takko and Jarmo Myllys were among the Finnish pioneers, helping pave the way for a new first wave of true NHL goalies, such as Miikka Kiprusoff, Pekka Rinne and Niklas Backstrom, who have either retired or are closing in on the end of their careers.?Finnish club Pori Assat Assat produced Takko, one of the NHLs four Finnish pioneers. When Takko was 10, the Assat goalie was Valtonen, who was named best goaltender at the 1972 world championships.And when Jaakko Rosendahl, the 33-year-old goaltending coach of Assat, was 12, Finland won its first world championship gold with Myllys, who played 39 games in the NHL. Then there was Ylonen, best goaltender at the 1970 tournament who later became a goaltending coach for Finnish League powerhouse Turku, with students such as Kiprusoff, Antero Niittymaki, Fredrik Norrena, Jani Hurme and Joni Ortio.Role models are important, said Rosendahl, who doubles as Team Italys goaltending coach, in Finnish. Im sure a lot of kids wanted to play goal thanks to Myllys, and when Finns finally made their NHL breakthrough, they gained self-confidence.Winning begets winning, and goaltending heroes beget goaltending heroes.Of course, Finland has built up a great coaching training system, and the federations nine districts each have a dedicated goaltending coach who makes club visits to spread the knowledge. Rosendahls Assat is a midsized club, with 12 junior teams and the Finnish League team. The club has 18 goalie coaches.Also, with a functioning goalie factory in their own country, the clubs often have two good Finnish goalies on their roster, which creates a healthy competition. Only three non-Finns have won the Urpo Ylonen Award which goes to the best goalie in the league, the latest being Tim Thomas?in 1998.So is there a Finnish style then? Something others could copy?Its hard to say, not really, said the Vancouver Canucks Jacob Markstrom, in Swedish. When I was growing up, there was Niittymaki and Kiprusoff, and they had a similar style, but I dont see a Finnish style.Kiprusoff and Niittymaki both came up through Ylonens goalie school.Id say, generally speaking, that Finnish goalies have good hands, and we try to control the puck, use our glove a lot, said Nashville Prredators No.dddddddddddd 1 Rinne, in Finnish. I believe I can spot a Finn, but Ill admit that the styles are pretty similar everywhere these days.Everybody has his own style, which I think is great. There was a time when everybody looked almost the same. But one detail that still separates the Finns is the active hands.Rinne credits his own hands to the game of pesapallo, a baseball-like sport that was developed in Finland in the early 1920s.When I was a kid, I wore the glove all the time, and I still like to catch the puck if I can, he said. I think it can be traced back to pesapallo, but its probably not the whole explanation. I dont know any other Finnish goalies who have played pesapallo.Tuukka Rask, a goalie for Finlands World Cup of Hockey team along with Rinne, liked the pesapallo theory, even if he hasnt played the game seriously.Only at school ... but I think it makes sense, Rask said, in Finnish. Finns are good with their hands, and just look at Rinne. I think Finnish goalies are catchers more than other nationalities.Even if their national sport wouldnt explain Finlands success with goalies, Rosendahl wouldnt mind if more kids played pesapallo.Its good practice for your hand-eye coordination because you need to read the balls trajectory quickly, he said. A goalie has 0.3 seconds to make a move when somebody shoots from the point. Theres no time to look where the pucks going. You have to know it.The fact that theres no particular Finnish style is a testament to the way coaches like to start with an individual goalies qualities and then build on them.No coach in Finland thinks that his goalies should play a certain way, Rosendahl said. In Sweden, they trust their blocking style and teach it to everybody, even small kids, even if they cant really block the whole net.A big part of our coaching has to do with a way of looking at life itself. How you should only focus on the things you can control, not look at skaters mistakes, how to work every day, how to enjoy the work every day.Finlands goalie coaches have to work hard to keep the factory going. Of the 11 Finns in the NHL last season, four could be considered No. 1s -- although Antti Niemi (43 starts) and Kari Lehtonen (39 starts) split the season pretty evenly for the Dallas Stars. Rinne played 66 games and Rask, 64. Four other Finnish goalies made double-digit starts, including Ortio, who has signed with a Swedish League team, and Karri Ramo, who suffered a torn ACL in February and is currently unsigned. In the 2016-17 season, Rinne will turn 34 and Rask 30.Meanwhile, Finland has a group of young forwards on their way up in Patrik Laine, Teuvo Teravainen, Aleksander Barkov and Jesse Puljujarvi. Could change be in the wind?Maybe its not cool to be a goalie anymore, Rosendahl said. Cheap Jerseys 2018 Jerseys Wholesale Wholesale Jerseys 2019 NFL Jerseys From China Wholesale NFL Jerseys Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping Cheap Jerseys From China ' ' '