Backman said that after tournaments, national team coaches show videos of each player to his club coaches and explain what the national team would like the player to work on for the next tournament.

“Now the club coaches feel like they are part of the system,” he added.

Finland is seeing results in a big way, not only with the two gold medals it has earned this year, but also with the 18-year-old prospects Patrik Laine and Jesse Puljujarvi, who are expected to be among the top five players selected at the N.H.L. draft in June.

Laine, Puljujarvi and Sebastian Aho finished first, second and third in scoring at the world junior championship in January, forming the most dominant line in the tournament, with 44 points in seven games.

“Every once in a while, such players come through a small country like ours, and it’s great to have them,” Nurminen said. “We need to have the stars for the promotion of the game — also for the medals, obviously — but what is more important is to have 50 very good players in each age group because we will not have stars like them every year. This is why development is so important.”

Finland has had two players selected second over all in the N.H.L. draft: goaltender Kari Lehtonen in 2002, by the Atlanta Thrashers, and center Aleksander Barkov in 2013, by the Florida Panthers. Laine, who is currently third in scoring at the world championship, with six goals and four assists in seven games, is quickly closing the gap between him and Auston Matthews, an American who is the consensus top pick in this year’s draft class.

The impact of Laine’s success is creating a ripple effect in Finland.

“It doesn’t matter if he goes No. 1 or not,” Nurminen said. “Everyone has been talking about it for the past 10 months, and they will be talking about it for at least a few more. It’s been great promotion for our game, and if he becomes the first Finnish player to be selected first over all, that would make it even bigger.”

Backman added, “That would definitely make headlines in all the Finnish newspapers, and every kid would notice, and if they aren’t playing hockey, maybe they will start.”