Prospect Info: #51OA - Hurricanes select RW Ville Koivunen

[Unsustainable]

 

[Kaljis]

Decent wrist shot + 2 primary assists on that game.

 

[Lempo]

"The perfect wristshot does not exi...", in case you were wondering.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

So is this kid another Aho?

 

[Daeavorn]

Phew nice shot

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

It’s interesting, and maybe telling that Carolina gets input from Aho, and likely his father and chose Koivunen over Raty

 

[Daeavorn]

We got inside info on basically all finnish players coming into the NHL. Pretty awesome.

 

[Lempo]

It’s interesting, and maybe telling that Carolina gets input from Aho, and likely his father and chose Koivunen over Raty

"Yes, this boy is super good and better that other guys and you should use a high pick on him and sign him and let me stress that the $230k transfer fee payable to our team upon him being signed to NHL absolutely has nothing to do with me saying this."

 

[ONO94]

Decent wrist shot + 2 primary assists on that game.

Ok--at the .52 second mark--why the Aho ad in the background? The family just buying advertising now?

 

[MMANumminen]

Ok--at the .52 second mark--why the Aho ad in the background? The family just buying advertising now?

Aho is pretty common surname. Its an ad of some electrical contractor, nothing to do with hockey Ahos

 

[chaz4hockey]

It’s interesting, and maybe telling that Carolina gets input from Aho, and likely his father and chose Koivunen over Raty

Raty has done pretty well too so perhaps a win win.

 

[poobags]

Raty has done pretty well too so perhaps a win win.

No, win win is when we have both Raty and Koivunen.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

No, win win is when we have both Raty and Koivunen.

We easily could have had both, but chose not to.

 

[ONO94]

Aho is pretty common surname. Its an ad of some electrical contractor, nothing to do with hockey Ahos

Thank you!

 

[Lempo]

So the epithet "hockey professor" gets attached to Koivunen in the Finnpress.

Per Artturi Lehkonens dad:

"Koivunen surprises always, even though I have seen him play in the Liiga. He's the kind of player that [head coach] Pennanen loves. On the top level, you don't react, you anticipate, and Koivunen is like a chess player. He's three or four moves ahead of others"

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

So the epithet "hockey professor" gets attached to Koivunen in the Finnpress.

Per Artturi Lehkonens dad:

"Koivunen surprises always, even though I have seen him play in the Liiga. He's the kind of player that [head coach] Pennanen loves. On the top level, you don't react, you anticipate, and Koivunen is like a chess player. He's three or four moves ahead of others"

When even the Montreal media can’t help but compliment a Cane, you know this kid is flawless.

 

[JJTT]

42 points in 48 games this season. Looks like a legit first line winger in Liiga nowadays. His confidence is at a very high level right now and he makes really good plays with the puck in every shift. Kinda like how Aho used to play in his final year here in Oulu.

Probably still needs a year to work on his skating and shot a bit but his development this year has been really positive. Battles hard for the puck and even throws some hits. Could be a good player in the future.

 

[AhosDatsyukian]

42 points in 48 games this season. Looks like a legit first line winger in Liiga nowadays. His confidence is at a very high level right now and he makes really good plays with the puck in every shift. Kinda like how Aho used to pkay in his final year here in Oulu.

Probably still needs a year to work on his skating and shot a bit but his development this year has been really positive. Battles hard for the puck and even throws some hits. Could be a good player in the future.

I was really high on him a couple years ago before he took a bit of a step back in his development last year. Glad to see him breaking out a bit this year.

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

42 points in 48 games this season. Looks like a legit first line winger in Liiga nowadays. His confidence is at a very high level right now and he makes really good plays with the puck in every shift. Kinda like how Aho used to play in his final year here in Oulu.

Probably still needs a year to work on his skating and shot a bit but his development this year has been really positive. Battles hard for the puck and even throws some hits. Could be a good player in the future.

he looks like he has improved his skating but it does need another level being a smaller guy. I think that time in Chicago was a rude awakening on his need to improve skating.

 

[NotOpie]

4 assists last night (3 primary) plus the shootout winner.

 

[Boom Boom Apathy]

Damn, let’s redo prospect poll number 2 based on this late breaking news!

 

[NotOpie]

Damn, let’s redo prospect poll number 2 based on this late breaking news!

He's no Chris Terry

 

[Unsustainable]

1g7a in last 3 games

 

[Nikishin Go Boom]

Kalpa is 10 points in the standings (2 games in the last 3)

JYP is 20 points behind them, the other game.

 

[chaz4hockey]

Is his projection a TT clone?